Value creation & commercialisation

Value creation and commercialisation

Sustainability is increasingly shaping what drives growth, influences buying decisions, and builds long-term customer loyalty.

For companies ready to lead, it unlocks new revenue streams, sharpens value propositions, and delivers cost savings that reduce both carbon and spend. But to realise this potential, sustainability must be embedded into the commercial core, not treated as an external add-on.

We help companies commercialise sustainability

We help companies integrate sustainability into product development, sales strategy, and pricing models, Transforming it into a lever for growth, margin, and differentiation.

Commercialisation

We work with companies to turn sustainability into a commercial advantage, whether that means enhancing existing offerings or developing entirely new green value propositions. Our approach includes:

  • Sustainable product development: Defining customer value propositions and business cases for sustainability-led offerings
  • Go-to-market strategy: Segmentation, channel strategy, and roll-out planning for green products and services
  • Commercial excellence: Identifying high-potential customers, optimising customer targeting, and embedding sustainability KPIs into sales incentives
  • Sales execution: Quantifying and communicating sustainability impact, building hero cases, developing sales playbooks, and training commercial teams on green claims and sustainability-driven storytelling

We tailor our approach based on where the client is in their commercial sustainability journey, from validating existing benefits to building entirely new business models.

Sustainability-linked cost savings

We help clients reduce operational costs while simultaneously cutting CO₂e emissions. This dual-value approach integrates financial and environmental outcomes, identifying initiatives that unlock immediate wins and long-term impact. Examples include:

  • Reducing energy consumption across operations
  • Switching to low-carbon alternatives for IT or materials
  • Integrating CO₂e performance into supplier selection
  • Cutting production waste and inefficiencies
Our support unfolds in two phases
  • Initial assessment: A rapid scan of potential CO₂e levers with indicative cost and carbon savings.
  • Full realisation: Prioritisation, business case development, and implementation planning — including both quick wins (e.g. indirect procurement) and longer-term strategic moves (e.g. materials, production methods).

Our featured cases within value creation & commercialisation

“Sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a powerful lever for business. We help organisations unlock new markets, increase revenue, and drive profitability through sustainability-led innovation and cost efficiency.”

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TDC NET

Partnering with TDC NET on sustainability board seminar

TDC NET is the largest and most experienced provider of digital infrastructure in Denmark, building, owning, and operating mobile and fixed-line networks. Acknowledging that the role of the board is essential in navigating corporate sustainability and transforming businesses for long-term value creation and protection, TDC NET partnered with The Footprint Firm to conduct a full-day board seminar focused on corporate sustainability and where this is heading and calibrating own efforts and priorities in an engaging and interactive format.

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Services

Industries

  • Telecommunication Infrastructure
The project

Together with TDC NET, we supported the preparation and facilitation of their board seminar on the sustainability agenda. The seminar covered key topics, such as the current state and future trends in corporate sustainability, the board’s role in advancing this agenda, and how to move beyond disclosures to realise value creation opportunities, particularly in commercialising and marketing sustainability performance. During the seminar, the board and executive management participated in training sessions and interactive exercises, including strategy calibration. The seminar featured the participation of a renowned professor on ESG and corporate sustainability, Andreas Rasche from Copenhagen Business School.

Our approach

We engaged in close collaboration with TDC NET’s sustainability team and senior executives to tailor the seminar to the existing strategy and priorities. The content was customised to focus on key areas such as biodiversity, commercialisation, and circularity, leveraging TDC NET's ongoing work on the double materiality assessment and CSRD reporting efforts, building strategic insights on top of this.

The impact

The seminar had several key outcomes:

  • Empowered and upskilled the board, ensuring strong engagement with the board of directors
  • Supported the calibration of TDC NET's strategic and tactical direction, informing short-and medium-term actions with executive management, especially in exploring commercial opportunities
  • Delivered tailored educational material that not only supported the board but also served as training and onboarding resources to the corporate sustainability agenda beyond the boardroom and executive management