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Practitioners’ Perspectives
Sustainability leaders discuss the function and future of materiality analysis
Part three of our materiality blog series
In the previous segment of our materiality blog series, we analyzed GRI reporting criteria to determine whether materiality analysis is truly an integral component of a report based on the GRI G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. We found that while the language in the GRI Guidelines strongly encourages the use of materiality, there is no formal requirement for companies to follow any particular analysis process.
Extending our inquiry, we reached out to sustainability professionals at companies currently using the GRI Guidelines—hoping to better understand the perceived role of materiality analysis within corporations themselves.
A powerful tool
In speaking with best-practice leaders, including representatives from Timberland, EMC, and Intel, we posed the following questions:
Have you conducted a materiality analysis within your company? If so, how?
Do you believe that materiality analysis has… More
Read how integration can help to address the disconnect between sustainability efforts and communications in this “by invitation” article, published in the July/August edition of Ethical Corporation.
This post is the fourth in a six-part series based on Where Sustainability Lives, a new study that indicates that organizational structure matters to sustainability performance.
One of the core conclusions of our research is that companies need to integrate sustainability into their management structures and align it with core business practice in order to derive maximum value.
We turned to Dave Stangis of the Campbell Soup Company for his perspective on this conclusion. Dave was recruited to Campbell to build an executable business strategy around sustainability and CSR, areas of performance that have been elevated to be one of the company’s seven core business strategies. We asked Dave to comment on his day-to-day experience in driving this agenda.
CSR and Sustainability as Business Strategy
I realize I may be stating the obvious – but considering CSR and sustainability as business strategies, and driving them as such, is really… More
