 |
|
Promoting sustainability as a differentiator:
•
|
Core Values: The delivery of sustainable profitable growth through responsible business practice is one of our core values, making the principles of sustainability part of everything we do.
|
•
|
Strategy: Our strategy provides a road map, identifying what we need to do to make progress and a means of measuring performance. As we outlined in our vision and strategy and our next steps, our strategy model allowed us to link our social and environmental objectives directly to our hard business objectives. This is continuing to evolve with our strategy model for 2004 and onwards.
|
•
|
Our people: The key to turning this strategic intent into real measurable progress on the front line is “our people”. Strategy becomes reality only if our people are committed and able to make it happen.
|
We believe that sustainability can deliver real shareholder value, with more responsible business practices leading to greater innovation and efficiency and differentiating us from our competitors.
A further challenge lies in verifying that we are making real changes to the way we work based on the principles of sustainability.
|
External benchmarking has given us a transparent, external verification of our commitment to sustainability and has given us guidelines to improve our performance. This is particularly important as the market for socially responsible investments increases. We believe being part of the FTSE4Good Index legitimises our sustainability credentials because the Index has been designed to measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards, and to facilitate investment in those companies.
|
Our ranking in the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index has also enabled us to promote our sustainability performance as well as focussing our attention on areas where we do less well (click here for further information).
Shareholder value is a key part of our 2004 strategy:
Strategic objective (2010)
|
2004 Target
|
Sustainability is a critical factor in 20% of our orders for new work.
|
By end of year, sustainability will be an ‘energising’ and relevant part of the Carillion sales pitch.
|
Demonstrate progress through interviews/surveys of the 25 recent wins beginning of year versus end of year.
|
For details of all our 2004 targets please see the Our Next Steps section.
For all our best practice case records since 2001, please click here. |
|
|
|
