CVA BIC Spotlight 2023-12 Sustainability Innovation Material Systems

Few years ago, a senior executive of a major material producer stated “low carbon cement is not on the strategic agenda in the short-term” while now the whole industry is investing and racing towards it. In parallel, most people reduce sustainability to climate change if not to carbon emissions, while the sustainable stakes are far much broader in industrials such as raw material and water scarcity.

Please find attached our latest thought piece on Realizing the full potential of Sustainability & Innovation in Materials and Systems - a perspective combining the expertise of two of our platforms: BIC (Building, Infrastructure & Construction) and ECT (Energy & Circular Transition).

This paper offers a view on how to

• get prepared for the next structural changes (carbon price, material science, etc)

• structure sustainability efforts in Materials & Systems sectors and their adjacencies

• combine and reconcile both sustainability and digital topics on a common gameboard.

If these lines have managed to catch your attention, do not hesitate to contact our team, in order to arrange a meeting, to present our experience and discuss your specific challenges.

The CVA BIC platform has assisted blue chips on the following topics at corporate and country levels:

• rethink more fundamentally the set-up in the value chain and manage actively the portfolio,

• configure new service & data-based offerings considering willingness-to-pay from the start,

• drive front-end innovation through sustainability-led market opportunity assessment,

• incorporate decarbonation in industrial assets leveraging disruptive 360° capex optimization,

• reach the next level of digital customer experience and seamless operations (end-to-end),

• recreate compelling corporate story (vision / “polar star”) for all stakeholders incl. talents,

while making sure all those engaged initiatives are deployed in a coherent and efficient way.