Environment and Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility (CR) initiatives are becoming increasingly critical to organisations looking to guarantee long-term, sustained commercial success. The business reasons for embedding environmentally and socially responsible good practice into an organisation’s day-to-day operations are now almost universally acknowledged and companies from all market sectors are committing significant investment to meet the CR demands of their internal and external stakeholders.

PIPC Approach

Environmental, Social and other Corporate Responsibility initiatives may be undertaken for either proactive purposes (for example to improve access to capital, business performance, brand value, market exposure or liability management) or reactive reasons (to help manage community trust, shareholder activism, regulatory risk, or to meet supply chain requirements). However, they all have one thing in common – they impact every facet of the organisation and as such need a highly coordinated delivery approach that runs in parallel to the ‘Business as Usual’ remit.

As a result, recent reports have shown that over 70% of such initiatives are abandoned or inadequately delivered, with a further 14% failing to produce any business benefits. The common reasons cited include lack of project definition, poor scope control, inadequate delivery management or inappropriate stakeholder involvement. In fact, and as with any business change programme, it is only through effective programme delivery that genuine benefits can be achieved for all concerned.

The PIPC Proposition

PIPC has a strong track-record of helping organisations to deliver substantial results from their CR initiatives. Our approach ensures:

• a clear understanding of the organisation’s areas of influence
• an effective analysis of stakeholder expectations and an impact statement of CR across the end-to-end organisation
• a realistic implementation plan for all Environmental, Social and other Corporate Responsibility initiatives
• an energised executive team focused on delivery of tangible benefits from CR programmes.

Our expertise in portfolio optimisation helps ensure that the right projects are selected at the outset, whilst our strong project management capability allows our clients to drive their projects and programmes to exceed quality, time and budget expectations.

Regular monitoring and reporting against agreed KPIs means that programme and project sponsors are kept on board throughout, whilst our skills in knowledge transfer lead to long-term client capability improvement.

When to use our CR Solution

The PIPC team can add value to any organisation undertaking CR change, although our input has been demonstrated to be of particular value to organisations that:

• don’t possess the in-house capability and experience to drive through CR initiatives themselves
• have failed to deliver on their CR commitments and need to recover their position
• are under critical pressure from stakeholders or regulatory bodies to deliver results quickly
• need to de-risk programmes by partnering with a recognised expert
• wish to improve their internal capacity through effective knowledge transfer.

At PIPC, our expertise and proven delivery record covers the full range of activities needed to make CR programmes succeed, from mobilisation and stakeholder management, through to programme control and benefits realisation. Underpinning all this is a team of experts with industry-specific knowledge who can cut across departmental barriers to deliver your CR programmes and projects.