Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
What can business process experts do to build corporate social responsibility and sustainability into the business processes of their companies and organizaitons?
We want your help in answering that question. These resources on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will help you learn more about how to design and implement best practices around CSR and sustainability.
McKinsey on Chemicals: Finding the Opportunities in Climate Change (PDF 255 KB)
Chemicals-based solutions will enable many carbon abatement technologies-and create new revenue streams along the way. Read this report from McKinsey&Company.
Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity and Risk in the Consumer Products Business (PDF 2 MB)
Sustainability is not a fad - it is unlike any issue the Consumer Product industry has encountered to date. Sustainability issues around environmental and social responsibility are not new. Over the past 12-18 months, momentum has been building due to increasing pressures from all major stakeholders, culminating in a 'perfect storm'.
Sustainability: From the Boardroom to the Breakroom (PDF 1 MB)
Many consumer products companies have now started evolving beyond the initial surge of packaging and varied disjointed low-hanging-fruit projects. With a CEO-led vision of becoming more environmentally responsible, many consumer products companies have also started to realize that manufacturing and distribution operations represent a major opportunity to achieve substantial gains in sustainability.
The Evolution of Green: Managing for Performance (PDF 3 MB)
With no shortage of urgency and passion, many sustainability efforts were undertaken quickly and are still rather loosely organized - defying standard approaches to benchmarking and measurement. This is understandable, since many corporations first focused on defining strategic intent, announcing goals and initiatives, and piloting projects in various areas. As a result, most companies joining the green revolution lack a comprehensive framework for benchmarking sustainability investments across the enterprise. Since green is here to stay, we are seeing companies turning their attention to the process of organizing, prioritizing and measuring the impact of their numerous green investments.