CSR for CFO’s
posted by Dave Stangis on June 05, 2008
It’s been pretty clear to me that the concept of CSR as a business innovation tool and differentiator among companies is important to more c-suite executives than just the CEO. I’ve had some conversations over the past year with everyone from the chairman to CIO, CMO, COO and CFOs of either my company or other companies about CSR as a business strategy.
Next week, I’m headed to Houston to participate and speak at the CFO Executive Summit put on by a company called Evanta. The conference and agenda is developed by CFOs for CFOs and is part of a regional network of similar events.
I’m actually looking forward to learning as much as sharing in this meeting. I’ve sensed that executives up and down the corporate hierarchy, regardless of region or geography are looking for the best ways to make CSR or Sustainability fit within their own organizations. And in my experience, the CFO is applying the most “no-nonsense” approach to the CSR business case of all the c-suite positions. They aren’t looking for the Al Gore business case – they are looking for the long-term investor business case.
I guarantee that you will be seeing more and more CFOs talking about the value that a CSR decision lens brings to their stockholders and long-term market capitalization in the next few years.
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tagged: Al Gore, CFO, CSR, Evanta, Houston, Intel, Sustainability
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Jun 10 | Frank Montano said:
I first want to congratulate you on the excellent work you do at Intel regarding CSR and also the example that the corporation sets for other large companies.
Interactive Services is one of Intel’s partners and has developed curriculum in the compliance and security area for your organization and our online courses that we have developed have been seen by all of your employees and have been rated very highly internally. After reading about the work you do and your responsibilities, I thought we could be a valuable resource in helping you get your message across not only internally, but also to the general population. We developed a corporate responsibility course that Nokia rolled out to their entire enterprise that was well received and was talked about enterprise wide . I would be happy to share that with you so you can have an idea of how we can help you with your mission at Intel.
Again, congratulations on the work you have done and I hope to hear from you.