Acclāro Consulting

The last ten years have seen the maturity of CR/CSR policies among leading corporate entities. The vast majority of FTSE 100 companies have focused CR/CSR goals and have established Corporate Responsibility departments to achieve them. The need for external expert advice is generally limited to the development of a strategic plan and managing the culture change process required to implement this plan.

 

Performance Improvement Services

There is a greater need for performance improvement within “second tier” quoted companies that currently have no established department for Corporate Responsibility. These companies have well known brands that require both policy improvement and protection from reputation damage. Acclāro seeks to work with these companies to enable them to improve their CR/CSR performance.

Acclāro conducts an initial strategic review (based on the BitC and DJSI surveys) to gain an understanding of the company’s current rating. Based on this review our consultants will develop a bespoke CSR programme, structured to achieve key milestones and goals in order to optimise our clients’ corporate responsibility in a structured and demonstrable way. Where required Acclāro is also able to provide programme management services to ensure efficient and timely project delivery and performance enhancement.

Acclāro recognises that many companies are in continuous evaluation of their requirement to commit resources to Corporate Responsibility programmes. Therefore any approach that can self skill their organisation to achieve CR/CSR performance improvement is highly desirable. Our clients benefit from our ability to position ourselves as a politically neutral Programme Manager in corporate environments where our independence enables faster results and improved efficiency.

Commercial Negotiation Services

The growth in CR/CSR interaction and collaboration between stakeholders has highlighted the need for advisory services in ensuring these engagements are successful for all parties. This can be illustrated by the following questions that are now a common occurrence:

• Does it serve the self-interest of a B2B corporate supplier and customer to undertake a joint collaboration project?
• Should NPOs engage with profit maximizing entities in a commercial manner in consideration of reputation and fundraising priorities?
• How do quoted corporate entities measure their Return On Investment from either CSR policy implementation or from their financial engagement with NPOs?
  

Acclāro will seek to answer these questions and implement the desired outcomes on either a success fee or project fixed fee basis; Where we can, we will.

Client Engagement Policy

On the 1st February 2008 our policy on client engagement and conflicts of interest was agreed by the founders and can be summarised as follows:

• We will only provide consulting services to a single quoted corporate entity in any specific industry sector, in each of the three major trading zones (Americas, Europe & Asia Pacific), at any one time.
• This principle will remain in place for one full GAAP annual accounting period after the last day of all commissions.
  

We do not believe that there is a conflict of interest in engaging with numerous quoted corporate entities operating in an identical vertical market. Our policy is to promote CSR collaboration between entities in this instance.


For more details on our consulting services please contact Sital Joshi by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .