

Succeed in systemic business change


SUSTAINABILITY - DIGITALIZATION - ECOSYSTEMS
SERVICES
DIGITALIZATION
SUSTAINABILITY
COMMERCIALIZATION
ECOSYSTEM PROJECTS
Katalysti often asked to join in an industry's or company's transformation phase to help to in reaching the new phase strategically and commercially.




Sustainability as part of the business model
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Sustainability manager as a service or sustainability sparring partner
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Implementation of sustainability reporting such as CS3D, CSRD, VSME
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Sustainability analysis to identify relevant sustainability themes
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Building a due diligence process to identify and manage sustainability impacts
To a new level of digitalization utilization
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Design of digital services
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New opportunities such as artificial intelligence and the data economy
Commercialization
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Customer research and prototyping of new services
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Conceptualization and trial sales of new services as a service
Multi-stakeholder projects
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Designing projects that cross organizational boundaries
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Project implementation and facilitation
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Creating ecosystems
KATALYSTI
The name Katalysti has two meanings: “catalyst” participates in a reaction and accelerates it without being consumed in the reaction itself, and the ending “lysti” ("fun" in Finnish) refers to the fact that even major reforms are best achieved when a way forward is created through positivity and possibilities. Katalysti Oy was founded in 2010.
The Katalysti is also Vesa Ilmarinen, the founder and owner of the company. Vesa:
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has worked as a hands-on consultant, project manager and in the management of consulting businesses over his 30-year career
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has helped dozens of companies in various industries such as trade, industry, telecom, healthcare, finance and insurance, tourism and energy, real estate and construction
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Special expertise: digitalization, sustainability, service design and commercialization
CASES
Katalysti has been involved in dozens of development projects both in individual companies and at the industry level. Such changes are successful when strategy, processes, people and technology are taken into account to achieve the goal.
CASE
#KIRAriskDD project results material (fin)
DUE DILIGENCE PROCESS FOR MANAGING NATURAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS RISKS IN BUILDING MATERIALS
Katalysti, together with Finreim, has led a joint project in the real estate and construction industry, which developed a due diligence process method for managing the environmental, labor and human rights risks of raw materials used in construction materials.
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Identify risk materials and risk countries
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Utilize the so-called checkpoint method as a tool for targeted risk-based due diligence
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Checkpoint survey enhances information gathering and sharing
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List of known certificates and their evaluation criteria
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Ways to stop, mitigate or prevent negative impacts in the supply chain
Contact us if you would like to learn more about the method! The model is also applicable to other industries.


CASE
SAGE project website (eng)
GREEN TRANSITION DATA SPACE
Katalysti is part of a European consortium that will build a new green transition data space, Green Deal Dataspace - SAGE , in 2025-2027. Katalysti's task is to implement one of the project's ten use cases, which will develop the management of Scope 3 emissions data:
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The platform enables efficient aggregation of primary data from multiple service providers
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A unified data model for transferring scope 3 data and computational metadata helps with data quality management
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Data space frees from vendor lock-in
The data space is a systematic and secure ecosystem promoted by the EU, where different actors can manage, share and use data confidentially according to common rules. It enables the responsible exchange of data, for example between organisations, individuals and systems.

CASE

NEWS ON THE TOPIC (fin)
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING DATA MODEL AND MATERIALITY ANALYSIS
Katalysti has developed a structured information model together with Finreim to manage EU sustainability reporting requirements in accordance with the ESRS standard. The information model has, among other things, implemented a common definition for the Finnish real estate sector. The information model can also be used in preparing for sustainability reporting in other industries or individual companies.
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Description of the sustainability context and value chain
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Sustainability topics according to ESRS
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Dual materiality analysis
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Disclosure requirements under ESRS
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Data points
The advantage of an independent ESRS data model is that the customer does not have to commit to a single program or service provider.
Vesa is also the second author of “ Digitalization – a business management manual ” (Talentum, in Finnish).
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The book helps business leaders understand the opportunities of digitalization, find methods that are suitable for their own business, and lead change in their own company.
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In the book, digitalization is broken down into three business logics: more / less / new money.
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The book is based on the authors' own experiences in implementing digitalization projects.
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The book contains over 50 Finnish case examples of digitalization.
The book is available for sale, among others, in the Alma Talent Shop online store.
Make an appointment to chat!
Let's discuss your challenge and see how Katalysti could help. Or let's chat and learn together for a while.
vesa.ilmarinen@katalysti.fi
+358 40 508 6447