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Smarter Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable Business is running a conference next week entitled Smarter Sustainability Reporting – Transforming your strategy into a competitive advantage, at which Paul Druckman, Chief Executive Officer of International Integrated Reporting Council is a speaker.
https://www.fhevents.net/favhouse/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=56&eventID=1&eventID=1
In January this year…
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Untangling interdependencies
“…brings together material information about an organization’s strategy, governance, performance and prospects in a way that reflects the commercial, social and environmental context within which it operates.”
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Motion and meaning
We’ve commented a few times previously on the challenges of integrated reporting. In particular the need for companies to show the links they see between financial and non-financial performance and the long-term sustainability of their business.
If a company believes…
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The promise of the FRC Reporting Lab
The Reporting Lab, launched on the 14th October, by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) definitely has promise.
Conscious of the endless stream of white papers and exposure drafts addressing the effectiveness and future of narrative reporting, the Lab instead is…
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Delighted customers delighted shareholders
If we read one more Management Today profile of a European CEO of a UK PLC eschewing a focus on shareholders above consumers, then we’ve officially got a trend on our hands.
First it was the Dutchman, Polman, CEO of…
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Cutting the clutter – governance reporting
Since our first blog on Cutting the Clutter, the report produced by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and Accounting Standards Board (ASB), to help companies de-stuff their annual reports, we’ve returned to look at one of their de-cluttering aids: Disclosure…
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Shareholder value vs stakeholder value
We’ve posted a couple of blogs recently about the purpose and content of annual reports.
The first reflected on the report produced by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) about why so much stuff goes…
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There’s more to employee engagement in CSR
It’s a lovely stat provided by Leap CR:
A 1% increase in productivity in the services sector would result in the UK GDP growing by £17bn.
The potential source of this increase in productivity? Employee engagement via corporate…
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Cutting the clutter
One of the annual reports we’ve been most impressed with over the years is a 12 page, 50 x 60mm leaflet, stuck to the side of an Innocent smoothie bottle, probably about six years ago now.
The report had one…
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Who wants integrated reporting?
The principle of integrated reporting is absolutely right – that is if you’re motivated by understanding the combination of factors that determine the long term sustainability of a company. But not everyone is interested, most notably a lot of [short…
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Bob at McDonald’s blogs
I always really like the tone of Bob at McDonald’s blog posts. He’s the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at the company. In his piece today he answers questions on the minds of business students at Washington University:
http://www.openfordiscussion.iupload-stage.com/default.asp?item=3047257
His…
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Beautiful Information
This is a favourite. It has been around since October 2010 but – and TEDtalks do this so well – it really breathes life into the subject.
Whilst David McCandless (Information is Beautiful) is a confident and charming orator,…
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Integrated reports have to provide the links
Novo Nordisk, a world leading integrated reporter of social, environmental and financial performance tweeted recently about The Economist’s white paper discussing “how executives’ approach to sustainability is evolving, how companies are managing and measuring sustainability, and how sustainability dovetails with…