Services
What We Do
BCA recognizes that a knowledge advantage is a sustainable advantage that provides increasing returns and greater productivity.
Striving to support a more profitable, sustainable and inclusive future for your enterprise? Consider our professional services:
Independent Assessment & Evaluation
We offer evaluation and assessment services encompassing vulnerability, risk, organizational structure, social performance, and future skill needs. Our assessment and evaluation services can accommodate various programs and projects; these services focus on the end product or quality of what is learned. We have also begun expansion into Life Cycle Analysis.
Vulnerability Assessment
Understanding the potential effects of climate change on ecosystems is needed to sustain natural resources in the face of climate change impacts. Vulnerability represents the degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change. BCA follows IPCC protocol in treating vulnerability as a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity.
Risk Assessment
Risk may be conceived as a triangle whose sides are represented by the following three variables: hazard, vulnerability and exposure. There are two essential elements in the formulation of risk: a potential event – hazard, and the degree of susceptibility of the elements exposed to that source – vulnerability. The ultimate purpose of risk assessment is to accurately inform decision-makers of the necessary directions and procedures to help de-risk enterprises from potential threats. In business, reputational risk is particularly serious and can occur unpredictably; in worst case scenarios, it can be fatal. BCA can assist your organization in identifying risks and help you prioritize your management decisions to avert a tarnished reputation.
Organizational, Program, and
Project Evaluation
Do you want to push the boundaries of your business and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? Institutions, agencies and related organizations seeking to improve performance and capacity can benefit from BCA's experience and expertise. BCA provides a suite of tools and methods for monitoring and assessing organizational performance. Aimed at 'collective thinking' and how priority-setting, decision-making, and trade-offs can be better achieved, our associates focus on dialogue, self-reflection, and traditional metrics to improve practices and outcomes. Importantly, our goal-based evaluations address a means to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your workforce. BCA also provides program and project evaluations designed to assess the relevance and strategic alignment of your program/project to your organization's strategy and priorities. To inform decision-making, BCA offers independent evaluation of project and/or program effectiveness. Systematic collection and analysis of information about the outcomes of programs provide a pathway for improvement and future development. As the Cheshire Cat observed in Alice in Wonderland, if you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
Life Cycle Analysis
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating environmental impacts of products or services throughout the complete life cycle (from cradle to grave). The methodology can assist in defining a firms strategic direction, and performance. BCA is committed to building capacity to address life cycle assessments, particularly in the natural resource sectors. These future services will center on sustainability reporting and assurance, compliance, and legislation, all of which have high relevance to the advancement and success of the green economy.
Social Performance
BCA recognizes that organizations succeed best when they understand social performance and the necessity of corporate social responsibility. Achieving a social mission requires purposeful management, guided by a strategic plan. If your enterprise has a deficit of professional competence for analyzing and understanding socioeconomic and socio-political impacts, our social science experts can help you find a pathway to improve or earn a 'social licence' to operate. Our focus is on how your management systems, processes, and products translate your social mission into practice. We utilize a suite of tools to assist in defining your goals, identifying best practices, and de-risking your business to improve your social performance.
Stakeholder Engagement
There is a strong cost/benefit case for stakeholder engagement. Through our associates and network, BCA offers strong engagement skills, and transparent processes. Effective engagement is becoming increasingly central to impact and risk management, and an increasingly rich source of innovation. BCA's stakeholder engagement process generally follows a classic continuous improvement cycle where stakeholders are an integral part of your organization’s activities.
Livelihoods
Is your company committed to building sustainable community livelihoods through corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs? BCA offers a variety of CSR approaches and models to support community livelihoods. We effectivity link CSR to sustainability and take a ‘shared value’ approach to meet both business and local community interests, taking into account your company's values and culture.
Education & Training
Does your business have an aspiration to leave behind a lasting and positive legacy for local and regional communities? BCA can assist with integrating education and skills development into your CSR strategy. Our team has a strong track record working with higher education institutions that employ transdisiplimary approaches to sustainability studies.