What truly matters?*
* We believe organisations, and society at large, must move beyond compliance box-ticking. We must prioritise activities, actions and investments that genuinely enhance human and planetary wellbeing.
Amid urgent environmental, social and economic challenges, Acacia works with ambitious individuals, and teams to accelerate the transition to a better tomorrow.
We help industry and governments apply holistic value models and robust monitoring tools to better understand and adapt to rapidly evolving business conditions.
This enables individuals and teams to identify and pursue more sustainable, regenerative and inclusive ROI, strategically allocate resources, reduce risk and increase resilience.
Offerings
Scenario modelling & monitoring
To help organisations plan for and adapt to an increasingly uncertain future, we apply a scientifically rigorous approach, which describes relationships and connections that create value and risk.
We then co-design, prototype and build models that help organisations view material, immaterial and financial flows within the complex systems in which they operate.
We’re technology agnostic – developing software and tools that leverage sensor, satellite, proprietary and ‘warm’ data to observe and continuously validate environmental, social and economic impacts.
Holistic value creation
Everything is interconnected. But modern society largely ignores this reality. And this has created existential risk.
We work with organisations to question typically narrow definitions of value – where economic gain is the main driver. This opens up the possibility of designing a more values-sensitive organisation that meaningfully considers its relation to and impact on the world.
Combining insights from systems science and applied philosophy, we define a clearer, more nuanced picture of what truly matters (expressed explicitly as a ‘holistic value system’).
Through collaboration, and by using tools we build together, we help organisations understand how much systemic value they create and what that value creation costs.
We are then far better placed to define, balance and achieve environmental, social and economic objectives that give civilisation the best possible chance of a healthy, enduring and sustainable future.
Strategy & business design
We take a values-led approach to business design with the goal of creating greater environmental, social and economic impact for individuals, organisations, society and the complex ecosystems in which we operate.
By clearly stating assumptions up front, our holistic value models and monitoring tools generate scientifically rigorous insights that inform strategy, objectives and desired outcomes. We then co-create initiatives and prototype evidence-based solutions – be it a new product, service, policy, financial vehicle or venture.
Our approach is grounded in continuous observation and validation. This enables us to support, refute and improve assumptions, and thus evolve our models, methods and actions in response to the insights generated. It is both self-reflective and self-improving, by design.