Collaboration for Impact

Insights Report

New research by Corporate Citizenship reveals that a new era of collaboration is upon us. As companies aspire to achieve greater societal impact, they are moving away from traditional partnership models and seeking out new models of collaboration.

Five models of effective collaboration were identified in the research:

• The Conductor - A single company collaborating with a number of not-for-profit partners to solve a specific challenge. 
• The Alliance - A company or group of companies that have come together to tackle a specific industry issue.
• The Assortment - Several companies across industries working together, often alongside not-for-profits and/or government bodies, to solve a particular societal issue, applying their resources, skills and expertise as relevant.
• The Engager - A company that engages and collaborates with its clients or customers through specific corporate responsibility initiatives or a commercial relationship to solve sustainability issues. 
• The Selector - A company that selects and collaborates with parties with varying but specific expertise across a range of fields to address a societal issue. This collaboration is the most mature model and involves taking a holistic approach to solve an issue.  

Insightful interviews with RELX Group, Singtel, IHS Markit, Kellogg’s and CARE International can be accessed here.

Transition to GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards

Register for upcoming training courses: 
London and Singapore

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)’s guidelines are the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting disclosures. GRI recently launched the latest evolution of the guidelines – the GRI Standards.

Corporate Citizenship, a Certified Training Partner to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the UK and Singapore, is offering training on the GRI Standard in 2017.

GRI Standards Training – Two Day Workshop, London
This GRI-certified training programme will introduce you to the elements of a good sustainability report and prepare you to co-ordinate the sustainability reporting process using the GRI Standards. 
The workshops are being offered on two separate dates:

When: 27-28 April 2017 / 29-30 June 2017
Timings: 2 full days (08:30-17:30)
Where: Corporate Citizenship, Holborn Gate (Fifth Floor), 26 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1PQ

GRI Standards Training - Two Day Workshop, Singapore 
Corporate Citizenship in collaboration with NCSR, a Certified Training Partner to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in Singapore, is offering a two-day intensive workshop on the GRI Standard. Download the training brochure here.

When: 3-4 May 2017
Timings: 2 full days (08:30-17:30)
Where: Dempsey House, 8D Dempsey Rd, Singapore, 249672

Sustainability - Lessons in Leadership

Upcoming webinar

Outstanding sustainability performance is demonstrated by a wide range of companies across diverse sectors. One common characteristic that unites these different businesses is leadership. 

This webinar will bring together a unique combination of perspectives to explore leadership in sustainability. Corporate Citizenship will draw on its 20 years’ of experience in helping business leaders develop sustainability strategies. We will be joined by Matt Gitsham, Director of the Ashridge Centre for Business and Sustainability at Hult International Business School.

Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
Session 1: 9:30am GMT | 10:30am CET | 5:30pm Singapore
Session 2: 8:30am PT | 11:30am ET | 4:30pm GMT

Service spotlight

Benchmarking: our Better Business Benchmark tool  

We believe businesses can use benchmarking to better understand how they compare to others in corporate responsibility, identifying areas of strength, gaps to best practice and opportunities to differentiate from peers

We offer a range of benchmarking support options including custom qualitative benchmarking reports and our new quantitative tool - the Better Business Benchmark. 

Our Better Business Benchmark uses a proprietary framework comparing the performance of businesses across ten essential aspects of corporate responsibility, addressing 82 issues. The criteria in the tool are informed by external standards, as well as our 20+ years of experience working with clients to help them benchmark and measure sustainability performance.