IKEA Foundation
484 GWh retired from annual energy demand across a global supply chain.
We work with companies whose business depends on systems that are no longer behaving the way they used to.
Climate, supply chains, regulation, public trust. We help leadership figure out what to do next.
The practice
Yvoke is the strategy practice of Except Integrated Sustainability, which has been doing this work since 1999. We map how a company's operations and markets connect to the systems around them: supply chains, regulation, ecology, communities, capital.
Then we look for the points where a small change moves the larger picture, and we help leadership sequence the decisions in the right order. Most of the work is figuring out what comes first, what depends on what, and what should not be touched yet.
The framework underneath is called Symbiosis in Development, or SiD. We have been refining it for 25 years across 600+ projects.
Our clients are boards, C-suites, and senior teams in multinationals, high-growth firms, and family businesses. They tend to plan in decades, not quarters.
Some of the work
Schiphol Airport
Cross-layer systems strategy for airport operations, energy, water, and logistics.
Shanghai Masterplan
Sustainable district strategy for 2.4 million square meters of mixed urban development.
Boston Urban Development
Resilience-first urban planning integrating climate, mobility, and equity.
Greenprint
National-scale circular economy roadmap with measurable transition milestones.
Regenerative Cities
Framework for cities that give back more than they take from surrounding ecosystems.
Three words we use a lot
Regeneration
Most companies plan around extracting less. Regeneration starts from a different question: what would it take to leave the place better than you found it? Sometimes the answer reshapes the business model. Often the new model pays for itself within a decade.
Resilience
Resilience is the design choice a company makes now so that, when something does go wrong, the damage stops at the first wall instead of cascading through the whole structure. Costs a little more on the spreadsheet. Saves a great deal in practice.
Systemic strategy
Most strategy work treats the company as the unit of analysis. Systemic strategy treats the company as one part of a larger system, then asks where it sits, what depends on it, and what it depends on. The answers usually change the priorities.
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If you are working through something complicated and want a second pair of eyes on it, we are happy to talk before anyone signs anything.
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