Benefits of Participation

Today, competitive and resilient organisations must understand and manage the very real risks and opportunities that social and environmental issues present and seek to integrate responsible business principles and practice throughout their operations and strategy. As such, the Index aims to challenge and support businesses on their collective journey towards a more sustainable future.  

The Index supports companies to integrate responsible business by helping them:

• Gap analysis, helping organisations identify both the strengths in their management and the gaps where future progress can be made
• Benchmarking performance against sector peers and leading practice from across the CR Index
• Tracking progress, reinforcing good practice and driving continuous improvement
• And the CR Index provides a powerful way to engage board members and raise awareness of material corporate responsibility issues

In addition, companies who participate publicly, making up the annual CR Index ranking, demonstrate a commitment to transparently improving their social and environmental impacts and further benefit from:

• Profile and recognition from being included in our CR Index ranking which has most recently been published in a Financial Times on 15 March 2012.
• Case studies and research on top performing companies and highlighting emerging trends and identifying pockets of excellence.

Private participation, for companies not ready to disclose their performance, focuses on providing guidance and feedback help organisations better integrate and improve their CR performance...More