Futureye Real solutions to real dilemmas

Futureye helps clients gain and retain their social licence to operate.

If your current public relations, lobbying and community relations tactics are not reducing:

• The number of protesters
• Negative social and traditional media
• The loss of political support
• A drop in employee morale; and
• Effective activist litigation

then you are facing a loss of your social licence to operate.

These are all indicators that there is a change in what society expects from your company/industry and it is urgent to assess whether your company is exacerbating the problem and accelerating the risk of a loss of your regulatory licence to operate. Once regulatory change is defined by the government, committed to by the politicians and supported by the community it is difficult to turn around or manage even if the commercial risks are significant. The types of changes can include: the introduction of punitive regulatory conditions, onerous regulatory licence changes or significant restrictions on your operation/project.

Rather than try to stifle change at its riskiest, Futureye recommends becoming more rigourous at assessing the stage of societal change you face, so that your reaction serves your company now and in the future. While your choices are: fighting, waiting to see what happens or changing, not all these choices will be effective during each sequence in societal change. For example, if you fight a newly established social norm your company and industry will end-up commercially at risk. Or if you remain passive in the challenge phase of societal change, your company will fail to shape the public policy environment that emerges. One of our specialties is sorting out the issues how they need to be responded to in order to enhance your business.

Futureye can assess your current state and develop a social licence to operate strategy for you. We have an end-to-end service to help achieve your social licence to operate objectives. We also take on projects in each service area.

What is on your mind right now?

• Reacting to a crisis: we want to react in a way that removes the imminent threats and rebuilds our social licence to operate
• Engaged in future thinking: we want to strengthen our social licence to operate as part of protecting the business, creating resilience and enhancing community support
• Engaged in culture change: we want to embed the social licence to operate capability into our organisation
• Planning a project: we want to create a social licence to operate for a greenfields or brownfields project.

For a decade we have helped make social licence to operate a reality for blue-chip companies and government organisations. We prefer clients that partner with us to achieve a result and we in turn demonstrate our appreciation of our clients by delivering our best. We are proud of the results achieved in partnership with our clients. According to key community, government and industry stakeholders, the outcomes we have facilitated are extraordinary. 

Futureye  can create a program that meets your business needs today and into the future. 

Contact us on +61 3 8636 1111 or info@futureye.com.