The 17 Global Goals and Consid

Together with our 1,000 employees, our customers and suppliers, we work to contribute to sustainable societal development through the UN’s 17 global goals. Agenda 2030 and the global goals are the most solid cooperation in sustainable development that the 193 UN countries have ever agreed on. Sustainable development consists of the three dimensions economic, ecological and social sustainability. All 17 global goals are important for sustainable development and it is required that all parts of society open up for the goals to be implemented, both the public sector, business, organizations and individuals. By analyzing the Global goals and sub-goals, we have identified where we can make the biggest difference and where we choose to focus. As a service company, our greatest contribution lies in social sustainability, but of course we work in all dimensions of sustainable development.

We do not have our own production that saves the world, but we work with lots of exciting customers who create societal benefits through digitisation. Everything from medicines to forests, real estate and communication. In addition, we constantly work to be the best employer our employees can imagine. Take part in Consid’s work from a sustainability perspective!

We are Consid

There is no Consid without our fantastic, ambitious and committed employees! Together, we have made an incredible journey from the miles of forests outside Vetlanda to being 1000 magical colleagues spread over 20 locations around Sweden. We are completely dependent on our employees thriving and developing so that we as a company can take the next step – thus it is not difficult to understand that we must be a pioneer in our industry and work for a developing, engaging and healthy work environment. Consid operates in an industry characterized by rapid change, skills shifts and complex projects. This means that we as employers must be extra careful in preventing ill health and advocating a healthy working life. Even within Consid, entrepreneurship can occasionally take over and the balance between work and leisure will suffer in the short term – but the most important thing is that we, together with our employees, work for a long-term healthy working life.

By living by our motto “We build the company we have always wanted to work for and that quality-conscious customers want to work with”, we create conditions to help our customers in the very best way. We want to be a company that always sees solutions, has a positive attitude, shows commitment and wants to give a real effect. Our culture is our absolute competitive advantage and thus shapes our future growth and profitability.

Our culture and work environment

The basis of our culture is our code of conduct and our values: entrepreneurship, commitment and effect. The Code of Conduct was last updated in 2019 and is based on principles of working environment and health, human rights, inclusion, working conditions and responsibility for the environment and society. Our code of conduct aims to ensure that there is clarity regarding expectations of our employees and how we treat each other. In our work environment policy, employees find the basic goals for our work environment and how they can contribute to achieving our goals.

Initiatives for participation and collaboration

In order for us to work together for a healthy and developing work environment, communication paths and initiatives have been created earlier and during the year. We have an active ethical council that discusses issues of an ethical nature, a whistleblower function and an updated SAM helps us as an employer to detect and prevent ill health and receive guidance on where our employees want the company to develop towards. In addition to more traditional environmental work, we have taken another step to ensure a good organizational and social work environment by having HR conversations with all consultants around Sweden. All to capture signals, fine-tune our work environment and find new areas for development.

Our business concept

With both cutting-edge expertise and breadth, we are a holistic partner that helps our customers become the best at what they do. Innovative solutions enable a more sustainable society by utilizing and using resources in a more sustainable way from a social, economic and ecological perspective. We always strive to deliver the best possible solution for our customers, and we believe that our commitment is something that makes us stand out and makes us the given first choice for consulting services in IT. But we are not fully content. With our vision to create context in the world, we want to contribute to Sweden and the digitalisation of the society at large. In the spring of 2019, we organized a seminar series together with the Swedish Parliament, and through our participation we had the opportunity to influence our decision-makers in a sustainable, digital direction. We also released the book “Perspektiv på digitalisering” in both printed format and as an e-book, which has been downloaded as many time as 400.

Quality assurance and follow-up

We are ISO certified according to ISO 14001 for environmental management systems and ISO 9001 for quality management systems. This is followed up continuously both via ISO audit and internal follow-up. It is not only our own business that is part of the sustainability work, but also our suppliers and customers. We have updated our purchasing policy and reviewed and updated the requirements we place on our suppliers when purchasing equipment such as computers and technology. Through this follow-up, we have actively turned to those suppliers whom live up to the requirements we set in terms of sustainability, environment, anti-corruption and human rights.

Office Standard 2020

In 2019, we laid the foundation for a new standard of daily environmental work in our offices with an internal quality control. We call our new standard Office Standard 2020. Office Standard 2020 ensures basic criteria such as source sorting, that vegan and vegetarian alternatives are always offered at internal meetings, room temperature and that there is equipment for having digital distance meetings. Office standard 2020 started in January 2020 with quarterly follow-up. The purpose of Office Standard 2020 is that we should have the same standard in all our offices and that both our customers and employees should experience the basic criteria that are obvious in everyday life at Consid. Linked to this, we have also updated our travel policy to make it clear that we primarily travel collectively when digital distance meetings are not possible.

Challenges

Equality is not just about quantitative measurement values ​​as a proportion of women/men within the company or management. It is just as much about qualitative parts as culture and inclusion, which is much more difficult to put a number on, but is clear in terms of experience. You can probably recall when you were in a context where you felt that the culture was “in the walls”, both in a positive and negative sense. Our culture at Consid is one of our greatest assets, and a strong contributing factor to our growth. We thrive with each other, we have fun together and we encourage and challenge on another.

Like many other companies, we have a larger proportion of women in positions such as HR, finance and communication than in development. It is of course due to larger factors, but maybe we can find the key to why so few women choose to work with IT if we turn to the question and look at why so many women choose to work with HR and finance. Are there different notions of what awaits in terms of culture and inclusion between the different professional roles? Think about it and see what you can do to ensure that the IT industry is characterized by an inclusive climate. We’ll certainly do.

A future need for technical competence

Sweden is already behind in terms of technical expertise. Our responsibility to ensure innovations that help us achieve the 17 global goals, and create the conditions for a continued prosperous Sweden, is to be committed to education and the young.

In order for us to continue coming up new digital innovations, we need more technical expertise. By inspiring more people to choose technical careers and helping the young who for various reasons need extra support, we at Consid can create good conditions. Our initiatives start at a young age with inspiration and an eye opener for programming and technology. After that, we continue by supporting the foundation Läxhjälpen and its young people, where they are given the opportunity to reach eligibility for further studies. To ensure that technically interested students get to work, we have created a bridge between student life and working life by offering student events and our trainee program Consid Nextlevel Academy.

Bring Your Child to Work Day

To draw attention to the profession and to get even more children and young people interested in our business, Bring Your Child To Work Day was initiated. The initiative means that employees can bring their own children and the children’s friends to a day at the office. It is also a way for us as employers to connect work and leisure, and that our employees get a chance to tell what happens between school pick-ups.

Consid Youth Education

Within the framework of Consid Youth Education, we pave the way for the next generation of IT stars. Consid Youth Education aims to inspire children and young people to an interest in IT and technology. During the year, Consid has had no less than 12 occasions where children and young people have been inspired to a career in development and programming.

Läxhjälpen

Läxhjälpen is a non-profit foundation located across large parts of Sweden, whose purpose is to get high school students to reach high school eligibility. During the year, we helped the foundation Läxhjälpen with hardware, further development of internal systems and lending of premises and office space.

Consid NextLevel Academy

In 2019, a completely new trainee program was created to design a bridge between student life and working life. The trainee program will give participants the opportunity to understand the consulting industry and develop their technical skills together with our competent employees. By having a program that is divided into 3 time periods with different focus, we ensure that the right conditions are provided for students to find security and development in their first workplace.

Consid Excellerate

We are looking for lifelong learning and therefore we created a completely new business area where our employees can help others develop their technical and leadership skills. Within the business area, our customers, partners and employees can take part in a solid training platform that provides opportunities for further development in the area.