CSR

Introduction

Corporate and Social Responsibility [CSR] is now a well-established obligation on all businesses, large and small. With careful thought and planning, it can and should be used as a viable business concept including the intelligent use of climate change strategies.

Corporate strategies must be practical and implementable within the context of current business and the changing marketplace. It is essential to construct policies and a set of practices that add value to the business – credibility cannot be attained if impractical policies are constructed, delivered and implemented.

Climate change, environmental and broader CSR policy should be specifically tailored for each company with a focus on business performance improvement and achievement of corporate goals, essentially aligning with the business culture.

How Can Montpellier CSR help your business?

Montpellier CSR is able to offer high quality consulting advice to any size company wishing to implement a sound and meaningful CSR policy.

This is based on delivering high quality research, strategic planning, policy determination and an implementation structure. This advisory service sets the platform for ongoing fulfilment in-house including the day-to-day administration of policy implementation. Montpellier CSR is well able to offer highly practical solutions and takes responsibility for a successful completion to the project that is less prescriptive but highly practical usually via the implementation by the internal team.

Montpellier CSR works with the corporate team to ensure a successful completion of agreed objectives. It is our goal to embed a lasting, dynamic, and practical process for the client, which will have sustainability and durability.

The services required are always agreed at the outset of any assignment and may include:

• Assisting and advising on the construction of the business case for CSR policies
• Drafting corporate environmental and corporate responsibility policies
• Presenting final CSR proposals to senior/board management
• Assisting and advising on the establishment of internal systems to support policy implementation
• Identifying, in conjunction with senor management, in-house champions
• Capacity building with in-house champions as a way of assisting and smoothing policy implementation
• Providing suggestions for effective incorporation of policy principles into current products and new offerings

Montpellier CSR is conscious that corporate responsibilities may seem like a new overhead and the implementation of policies and strategies is initially an additional cost to the business. We are however sympathetic to this attitude and our services on longer term assignments must be integrated into the management routines with the minimum of upheaval but with maximum effect.

Expertise

Montpellier CSR has a team with the necessary skills to deliver such policies to clients as well as fully understanding the commercial rationale that well-planned implementation will enhance business value.

Our team is lead by Dr Tauni Lanier who has international consulting experience with some of the world’s largest companies; including BAT, Orange, General Motors, BP, Rabobank, ST Microelctronics, Powergen and Shell. She has also advised smaller companies and the different challenges this brings to CSR.

She has the requisite experience to cultivate robust and appropriate corporate responsibility and climate change strategies with the clear objective of creating business value and has previously been an acknowledged expert through her involvement with the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index where she was instrumental in the construction of business plan and developments strategy of the index to the global community. She has also been a senior project manager at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, where her responsibility was to construct the business case for Corporate Social Responsibility reporting.

Dr Lanier is able to call on a wide range of consultants in order to fulfil specialised strategies or specific sector issues.