ISVC: Approach

The ISVC Approach

The ISVC initiates and facilitates:

Pillar 1: academic research and scientific consulting,

Pillar 2: supports transfers of new solutions to business practice in pilot projects,

Pillar 3: supports the development of tried-and-tested hands-on tools, and

Pillar 4: communicates professionally its results to specialist communities, to politicians and regulators, to the academic field, and, most of all, to the public.

ISVC aims at realizing a substantial contribution to improve sustainability in value chains by:

Developing a concise, reliable understanding of the role and function of value chains in today's business and economic systems,
Translating the publicly voiced needs for sustainable business practices into measurable targets,
Providing hands-on concepts and tools for the management of global value chains,
Recommending tried-and-tested ways to change.
Sharing best practices and capabilities of how to implement and maintain compliance with proactive sustainability standards within the value chain.

Developing effective risk management approaches and control mechanisms ensuring compliance throughout the entire value chain by identifying threads occurring through potentially incompliant partners risking brand equity or legitimacy.
Engaging specialized and mass media as well as artists to make the challenges and solutions both known and emotionally felt in public, in business, and among policy makers.

The ISVC bundles competencies in sustainability and management from a variety of experts and organizations with different professional and scientific backgrounds. It embraces discussions between supply chain, operations, distribution, recycling, environmental and societal experts to align objectives and perspectives, in the long run developing solutions that benefit nature, societies and corporations as a whole.

The ISVC strives to achieve a leading role as a professional and neutral institution for questions regarding sustainability concerns in value chains. ISVC provides scientifically proven, yet hands-on expertise on how to develop sustainability strategies that deepen legitimacy and generate the ability to ensure compliance with communicated standards by all parties involved in the value chains.