[Reana Rossouw] Organisations need to move past the compliance hurdle and produce sustainability reports that engage stakeholders to the point where they in turn respond with valuable feedback. |
[Reana Rossouw] South African businesses will not be untouched by the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) and Global Reporting Institute's (GRI) latest milestones in the journey towards integrated reporting and sustainability. |
[Reana Rossouw] In the first part of this series, I highlighted the identification of material issues and meaningful stakeholder engagement as two cornerstones for good sustainability reporting. In this second and final part, I look at stakeholder engagement as a critical component of King III and conclude with an excellent case study on clothing retailer Gap. |
[Reana Rossouw] In the first of a two-part series, I take a look at the essential need for meaningful stakeholder engagement and materiality identification as the cornerstone for a good sustainability or integrated report. |
[Reana Rossouw] In the majority of industries, exact standards of measurement - 'best practice' - already exist. However, in some less 'mature' industries, these assessment standards have not yet evolved to a level where everybody who works in the industry is on the same page as to what the 'best practice' standards are. This is typically the case with socio economic development (SED). |