The management systems community
7th Oct 2009
AccountAbility, the global not-for-profit standards developer is revising its AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement standard (AA1000SES) the world’s first international stakeholder engagement standard. View the video and get have your say and get involved on the state-of-the-art interactive web-based wiki platform.
1st Oct 2009 by Alex Briggs
With the FERMA conference and exhibition coming up next month, we interviewed one of the world’s leading risk management experts, Marguerite-Soeteman Reijnen, AON’s Chief Broking Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In Episode 2, Marguerite talks about AON’s GRIP approach to risk management. She also talks about the future of risk management.
LRQA and www.businessassurance.com will all be in Prague for the October 4-7, 2009 FERMA event.
28th Sep 2009 by Alex Briggs
With the FERMA conference and exhibition coming up next month, we interviewed one of the world’s leading risk management experts, Marguerite-Soeteman Reijnen, AON’s Chief Broking Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa. In Episode 1, Marguerite talks about the financial crisis that led to the 2008/2009 recession. She also talks about the AON “Crystal Ball Report.”
www.businessassurance.com will be attending the FERMA event, October 4-7 in Prague.
8th Aug 2009 by Alex Briggs
This podcast is a result of www.businessassurance.com being a media supporter at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London in June 2009.
Some of the global climate change experts you will hear from in this podcast include Gavin Neath, VP Unilever, Donna Young, Head of Climate Change at BT, Zac Goldsmith, former editor of the Ecologist and one of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists and Andy Atkins, CEO of Friends of the Earth.
24th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan
Lack of Work-Life Balance has significant risks to the organisation; including loss of productivity, poor health, and higher absenteeism. By offering flexible work arrangements to employees can help companies navigate the troubled times. By offering periods of unpaid leave or options to work part-time, companies may be able to avoid massive retrenchment and still retain their talented employees.
20th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan
Companies that fail to disclose their ESG performance will find it more difficult to obtain funds from institutional investors. Several pension funds, for example, consider climate change a key criterion and will exclude companies that cannot substantiate their environmental commitments.
The absence of a proper management system, policy and review will deter fund managers. Investors are more savvy in their selection of companies that prove a genuine commitment to sustainability issues.
16th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan
There is a gradual move to make CSR as a core business strategy in Hong Kong. Stakeholders and the market are becoming more sophisticated and companies have to be more proactive in managing their CSR activities. Organisations understand that without proper planning, monitoring and review, CSR activities will never be done correctly.
22nd Jun 2009 by Alex Briggs
Increasingly, organisations are communicating their third party certification as a competitive advantage and as proof of improved stakeholder engagement. The recent communications of two Dubai organisations is a case in point.
DP World and Dubai Customs are both promoting their recent ISO 10002 (Customer Complaints) certification. Both organisations were certified by LRQA.
8th Jun 2009
The recession will be big, but climate change will be bigger.” Nicholas Stern.
28th May 2009
This latest research report ‘What Assures Consumers in an Economic Downturn?’ highlights that consumer attitudes to corporate responsibility have remained fairly stable during the early days of this downturn, comments Barry Clavin, Ethical Policies and Sustainability Reporting Manager, The Co-operative Group. He also says in the foreword of the report that, issues that mattered to consumers back in 2006 remain important today. Download the Full Report.
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