Find out where to start when introducing changes in your organisation. This stage requires your involvement in the institution’s self-diagnosis but does not require the help of external experts or financial expenditure. All the measures from this stage can be implemented using your own resources. They are not time-consuming and mostly consist of increasing internal awareness, changing habits and implementing simple solutions.

This stage includes implementing changes which require more time. It is connected with reformulating some solutions functioning in your organisation, such as changes concerning procedures, small infrastructure, materials and equipment, as well as operation strategy related to particular areas. This may necessitate consultation with experts and, in some cases, financial investment. It requires inter-departmental cooperation and a wider engagement of employees, so that the implemented changes may support one another and be cohesive throughout the organisation.

This stage concerns systemic measures – implementing previously prepared processes and solutions. This also includes the initiatives which require big infrastructural changes and/or large financial expenditure, and/or involvement of other entities. At this stage it is worth carrying out an audit of the changes implemented. Its conclusions would show the direction for eco-strategy for years to follow.