Expanding your compliance horizons

An introduction to the Three Horizons

For decades, leading businesses worldwide have used McKinsey’s Three Horizons framework to address their organization’s immediate needs while remaining responsive to emerging threats and opportunities. By understanding…

1. What’s happening now, and what the immediate priorities are for the business (Now)
2. Imminent changes that could have a near-term impact on the business (New)
3. The important long-term developments that could result in significant disruption (Next)

… businesses can maximize short-term performance while building resilience against disruptive change.

Applying the Three Horizons to EHS compliance

In recent years, the relentless pace of regulatory change has put pressure on EHS teams to adopt a more proactive approach. In 2024 alone, there were over 30,000 new EHS requirements or major amendments, each one taking time and resources to implement for the businesses they impact. This means that monitoring upcoming regulatory changes and identifying their potential business impacts — before they come into force — is more important than ever for global companies seeking to mitigate business risks.

Enhesa’s Regulatory Forecaster combines expert-created content with technology solutions to help companies understand, plan for, and act on upcoming changes to EHS regulations. Our team of over 160 analysts monitors proposed and pending regulations across more than 400 jurisdictions, translating complex regulatory text into clear, actionable intelligence.

Regulatory Forecaster gives EHS teams the information and intelligence they need across each of the “Three Horizons”—from recently approved but not yet in force regulations to forthcoming new regulations, amendments, and emerging trends. It’s how leading brands scan the three horizons for EHS regulatory changes, ensure visibility into emerging legislation that could affect them, and improve strategic planning across the business to reduce operational risks.

Learn more at our upcoming webinar, Prepare your EHS strategy for what’s ahead, or read on for more details.

Now: Identify requirements and trends affecting you today

Understanding the regulatory developments that affect you today is crucial to ensuring compliance and maintaining business continuity. The costs of missing something can be steep — including fines, reputational damage, and operational disruption.

Regulatory Forecaster ensures you’re fully informed about regulatory changes as they happen, flagging important changes that might impact your business and pushing key updates directly to your inbox. This greatly reduces the risk of missing key developments to protect your business.

Regulatory Forecaster’s clear, plain language summaries are easy for your teams to pick up and work with. When it comes to tracking and managing compliance, it’s also easy to use alongside your existing systems and processes – our intuitive ‘regulation-first’ approach means it works ‘out of the box’ with most compliance workflows, making it simple to integrate with your existing processes.

New: Monitor and respond to upcoming changes

EHS teams also need advance notice of upcoming changes to effectively prepare and take any necessary corrective action. The more notice you have of any given change, the more time you have to plan your response — and the less risk there is of non-compliance, operational disruptions, or unplanned expenditure due to last-minute changes.

Regulatory Forecaster gives teams advance notice of global EHS regulations as they take shape throughout their respective local legislative processes. It provides comprehensive coverage of proposed regulations, policies, jurisprudence, and more — well ahead of implementation. Our content covers both the key changes and the potential impact on businesses, giving you visibility into what’s changing and what this will mean for companies. Taken together, this intelligence gives you a highly comprehensive view of the imminent changes your business needs to prepare for, putting you in the best position to respond.

Next: Horizon-scan for emerging trends

Businesses need advanced visibility of the trends that might affect them in the longer term so they can plan ahead with confidence. This visibility helps you…

• Plan your long-term compliance strategy to achieve competitive advantage
• Ensure you have the systems, processes, and resources in place to tackle tomorrow’s requirements
• Make informed choices about capital expenditure and maximize the impact of your investment

Regulatory Forecaster provides this insight, giving your teams visibility of emerging regulations from the proposal stage onward, as they develop. This allows you to shape your strategy early, taking the initiative instead of playing catch-up.

It also covers broader content, including committee actions, policy developments, jurisprudence, background news, and more — providing valuable context that further aids horizon-scanning.

Expand your horizon of strategic planning

By expanding their visibility to each of these ‘horizons’, EHS teams can anticipate challenges ahead of time, shifting from a reactive to a proactive approach to EHS management. This, in turn, allows businesses to approach activities and investments that can be impacted by changing EHS regulations more strategically, reducing risk and creating a competitive advantage.

Other teams can benefit from this insight, too. HR, compliance, risk, legal, and site-level teams might all need to respond to developing EHS regulations. With Regulatory Forecaster, they have a single, reliable source of truth to plan their responses.

Underpinning all this is a reliable, consistent source of information on emerging regulations. Newsletters and government portals simply are not enough. A tool like Regulatory Forecaster can help you expand your horizon for strategic planning — with significantly lower time demands and cost overheads.

To learn more, check out our webinar: Prepare your EHS strategy for what’s ahead