Thursday 7 January 2016

What makes a CSR Strategy Strong?

I recently did a short interview on What makes a CSR Strategy strong and thought the transcript below might be interesting.   It has a few thoughts and comments along with links to other articles and posts that I have authored.
CSR is all about value.  Value for shareholders and society.  The closer a CSR Strategy sticks to that principle the stronger the strategy is.  And, the more value it produces for both

  1. What makes a CSR strategy strong?
Alignment of interests.  Sharing of value created and responsibility for creating it. 
The real key to a successful strategy is that it drives a process that will consistently and systematically identify, nurture and develop those areas where shareholder and stakeholder interests can align.  It must also do it in a way that doesn’t put all the responsibility on the company.  If there is to be shared value there must be shared responsibility for it to be sustainable
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  1. What do most companies consider business-wise and customer-wise when creating a CSR strategy?
I’m hesitant to comment on what most consider.  I’d rather comment on what I think they should consider.
Unfortunately, companies often take a paternalistic approach and execute CSR in a way that suggests it is about giving and transferring value from the company to other stakeholders rather than finding the spaces where collective self-interest can create aligned interests and giving shareholders and stakeholders direct and personal motivation
CSR = creating, capturing & sharing value in the space where business meets society. Here is a link to a blog post that expands on this a bithttp://bit.ly/ZGpHJN  
  1. What are main challenges to creating a strong CSR strategy?

3 comments:

  1. It's all about attitude! As long as CSR will remain a tick-mark activity rather than a value to be imbibed in the company culture, no CSR strategy could find it's righteous implementation, I believe! Thanks for sharing and Way to go...

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  3. I feel very grateful that I read this. It is very helpful and very informative and I really learned a lot from it. Music

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