Pioneering
a Sustainable
Future
FORESIGHT
SUSTAINABILITY
TRANSFORMATION
What we do
Strategic foresight for sustainably successful organisational development: We help you to integrate ecological, social, economic, and technological trends into innovative, applicable, and sustainable strategies that keep your organisation ahead of the curve.
- Are your supply chains no longer reliable?
- You can no longer find skilled labour and want to change that?
- Are you worried about your energy- and water-intensive production process?
- How are AI agents changing your market?
- Is it possible to outline the key economic impacts of the current geopolitical changes on specific industries in 15 minutes?
- Does your corporate vision adequately cover all factors relating to regulatory developments or climate change impact?
- How can you ensure that your new corporate strategy doesn't get „stuck“ in a report, but is actually implemented?
We support you in anticipating your preferred future - and ensure that you achieve it.
What we want
We want to support you in actively shaping your future. We help you set strategic priorities today to ensure that your future matches your aspirations.
Climate change, artificial intelligence, scarcity of resources, digitalisation and automation, new wars, demographic developments... Changes are coming at us ever faster and are challenging given structures. „Business as usual“, the unchanged continuation of our current business models, offers no solutions for the problems of the present and certainly not for those of the future.
Innovative concepts and informed foresight are necessary to solve existing problems and open up new opportunities. It is crucial to manage and utilise change in such a way that your own business idea is successful and the desired future is achieved in the best possible way. Without destroying the environment or the social foundations of our civilisation. SUDECO is happy to support you on your path to your future.
SERVICES
We offer our services on a modular basis. The modules are used individually or in combination as required.
- Module 1: Current Status
The current situation is analysed. Where does your organisation stand?
- Methods
- Qualitative and quantitative data collection, expert interviews, organisational and environmental analyses, e.g. SWOT, STEEP/PESTEL, white-spot or risk analysis, etc.
- Use Case
- Are you worried about your energy- and water-intensive production process?
- Your company in the organic chemicals sector is operating successfully, the production processes are reliable and competitive, despite the energy price increases of recent years. However, significant regional weather changes can be observed, the supply of fresh water does not appear to be guaranteed for all time and there is also the threat of high import prices or high regulatory standards? We help you to analyse external risks for your internal processes.
- Module 2: Developing Possible Futures
What could the world and your organisation look like in 2040 or 2050? What futures are conceivable? Which drivers determine your markets, which key factors and players are central, which reinforce or weaken each other? Which future do you want - and which do you definitely not want?
- Methods
- Horizon scanning, futures wheel, key factor analysis, scenario analysis, e.g. the development of probable, explorative or normative futures, backcasting, etc.
- Use Case
- How are AI agents changing your industry or market?
- In the future, artificial intelligence applications will be used in most, if not all, areas of business and private life. Cross-company AI platforms and big data analysis will make the entire organisation faster and more efficient, e.g. in HR, production or communication processes. At the same time, AI co-pilots or AI agents tailored to individuals are speeding up individual work steps and redefining the fields of activity for human employees. How could AI be used in your organisation in the future? How should AI be used in your organisation in the future?
- Module 3: Strategy Development and Recommendations for Action
- The core of strategic foresight. What specific measures will move your organisation towards the desired future? We ensure that the right measures are anticipated and bring individual steps into an integrated strategy.
- Sudeco sets up a process that supports you and your employees in defining your goals and developing your own strategies. Opportunities and risks are analysed in a participatory manner and viable and resilient solutions are formulated together.
- Once the objectives have been defined, SUDECO takes over the development of strategy recommendations and sustainable approaches for you. The results are discussed and validated with the customer in several loops. Whether co-creation or external input: we find solutions for future challenges that are successful in the long term.
- Methods
- Search field analysis, key factor analysis, morphological box, futures wheel, impact analysis, workshops, participatory processes, etc.
- Use Case
- Only a few and mostly unsuitable people apply for your job advertisements? Your supply chains are no longer reliable and you need to find new reliable suppliers?
- One of the strengths of strategic foresight is avoiding crises and bottlenecks before they occur. However, when things are already going wrong, successful long-term strategies are all the more important. We help you to formulate solutions, weigh up alternatives and make good decisions. Quickly, thoroughly and sustainably.
- Module 4: Sustainability Check
- You have the core expertise and leading experts in the industry in-house and an ambitious development concept is already in place. But the world is very complex, is changing ever faster, and not everything lies within your core expertise? Do you need an intellectual sparring partner or would you like to have your future concept comprehensively reviewed „from the outside“?
- Methods
- Search field analysis, qualitative and quantitative data collection, expert interviews, white spot or risk analysis, etc.
- Use Case
- Does our corporate vision adequately cover all factors relating to regulatory developments or climate change impacts?
- Your organisation has a clear vision for the future, the in-house experts are leaders in their sectors and the strategic direction is clear. But would you like to take another critical look at your concept in order to incorporate demographic, social or international trends and developments, for example? We would be happy to take your strategic concept apart and then put it back together with you.
- Module 5: Evaluation
Success is measurable. Quantitative targets operationalise your strategies and ensure actual implementation. Ideally, this module is integrated in addition to other modules and indicators are defined ex-ante. However, we also evaluate ongoing or completed projects, including ex-post indicators.
- Methods
- Indicator development, impact analysis, project evaluation, qualitative and quantitative data collection
- Use Case
- How can I ensure that my new corporate strategy doesn't get stuck in a report, but is actually implemented?
- Indicators that make the short, medium and long-term implementation of the strategy measurable and therefore verifiable can be developed as early as the creation of a future concept and new organisational strategies. The definition of points in time at which certain values are achieved ensures the implementation of the strategy. The associated process of small-scale operationalisation of the overall strategic concept also checks the validity and plausibility of the strategic assumptions for the future.
- Module 6: Concentrated Input
Do you need pleasantly presented thoughts on a specific topic relevant to the future? As a keynote speech at a board meeting, as an in-depth discussion during a working group meeting or as a written deep dive that illuminates a specific aspect of the future in detail?
Is also often booked by other consulting firms to complement their own expertise.
- Methods
- Keynotes, detailed reports (aka deep dives), activating workshops, virtual or physical, engaging presentations, oral or written, etc.
- Use Case
- Is it possible to outline the key economic impacts of the current geopolitical changes on specific industries in 15 minutes?
- Technological progress, changing geopolitical power relations, and economic changes cast their shadows ahead. To celebrate your company's 30th anniversary, you would like a short, concise keynote speech about the opportunities available to your company over the next 30 years.
About Sudeco
SUDECO, short for SUstainable DEvelopment COncepts, is a consulting agency that supports private and public organisations in strategic future planning - and the name says it all.
SUDECO was founded in Paris in 2015. The agency has been based in Dettingen an der Iller since 2021.
Our core expertise lies in combining the respective client's interests and ideas for the future with scientific facts and sophisticated scenarios about future environmental developments and the associated political, social, and economic consequences. Depending on the project objective, we work with state-of-the-art methods, e.g. we like to use the cutting-edge AI agents from Agents.inc in horizon scanning. But we also still use books.
It's not just about adapting to global developments such as climate change, resource scarcity and digitalisation - it's about actively shaping the future.
That is why we do not focus on short-term economic success. We are concerned with developing ecologically, economically and socially sustainable strategies and solutions that do not think of success in two or three years, but in decades.
Together with our customers, we build strategies and processes that are resilient and economical even with two degrees of global warming, without contributing to three degrees of warming.
Main areas of work
- Methods of strategic foresight and sustainable future planning
- Local and sustainable transformation processes with a particular focus on digitalisation, energy supply, and climate adaptation
- Innovative governance instruments in multi-level systems
- Smart City
- Accredited expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of innovative projects in the fields of Climate Action, Environment, and Clean Energy Transition
Partners
We are increasing our thematic and operational reach by cooperating with selected partners.
Advanced Foresight Group
The Advanced Foresight Group is a cooperation network of seven companies from the fields of process optimisation, communication, futurology, design, training and management consultancy, each with a different focus. Our clients benefit from the many years of successful collaboration within the Advanced Foresight Group.
The complementary expertise of our network partners and our peer review processes guarantee reliability, the highest quality, and the latest methods in the planning and implementation of projects. Here you can find more information about the Advanced Foresight Group.
Other partners
AGENTS.inc
The Fraunhofer spin-off AGENTS.inc creates AI agents that analyse companies, markets, technologies and regulations around the clock - AI-based on facts, far beyond what conventional chatbots offer.
Prenzel-Communications
Dr Thorben Prenzel advises clubs, associations and foundations on the development of modern structures. He is an expert in political communication and regularly gives seminars on the topics of communication and lobbying.
Switching time
Valtrado
Valtrado is a translation and proofreading agency specialising in the translation of B2B and B2C communication from English into German and the proofreading of German texts. For texts that are understood by everyone - customers, employees, and other stakeholders.
Customers
SUDECO's customers include private companies, public institutions, non-governmental organisations and universities from Germany and all over Europe.
