Corporate Responsibility in the Public Interest: Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability Joiwind Ronen, Director [email protected]

Corporate Responsibility in the Public

Interest: Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability

Joiwind Ronen, [email protected]

Corporate Excellence for Government Roundtable

The mission of the Roundtable is to foster and evolve corporate responsibility practices, measures, and disclosure in the government contractor community

Through a vibrant community of practice, cross-sector leaders will collectively produce models, measurements, and recommendations to drive transparency and accountability over the next quarter century


Goal: To improve corporate responsibility in the government contractor community

Approach: By promoting transparency and sharing best practices, companies will strive for higher levels of responsibility and corporate excellence

Who: Bring together the key executives and thought leaders from companies, agencies, academia and policy organizations to define a vision and approach forward

What: Quarterly Roundtables and ongoing working groups leading to a yearly set of policy and practice recommendations for government, industry and congressional leaders


◦ Promote Transparency Transparency in a company comes from disclosing information across a range of

practices; transparency in the community comes from aggregating this data across companies

The Roundtable will develop a framework and approach for making information open and accessible to government and the public, addressing such issues as:

What information should companies share? How and where do they share it? How can information be aggregated and made widely available to those that want to use

it? How might government use this information to inform buying decisions?

◦ Share Best Practices This group will help promote best practices in measurement and information

sharing across this community The Roundtable will use technology, in-person meetings and publications such as

CR Magazine to disseminate information


PRESENT

June 30th

kick off

Convene steering

committee

Receive feedback

Engage gov’t

Industry

Congress

Administration

AcademiaNGOs

Public

STEERING CoMT.

R o u ndtable

Working group

Working group

Working Group

R o u ndtable

Working group

Working group

Working Group

Roundtable Roadmap

Organize Create Vision Define Landscape Develop Case for Change Define Solutions & Gaps Present Path Forward

June 2010 July/August September Oct./Nov. December Jan./Feb. March April/May June July/Aug./Sept.2011

R o u ndtable

Working group

Working group

Working Group


Objective: To make the case for why corporate responsibility (CR) and transparency of CR practices are important in the government area

Objective: To build a community of leaders to promote transparency and accountability in the contractor community

CROA

GW

Round-table Road

Ahead

Panel:IBM

FluorGSASEC

HSGAC

Table discuss

Table discuss

Table discuss

Table discuss

Table discuss

Panel & Speakerclosing

thoughts

8:05-8:50 8:50-9:30 9:30-9:45 9:45-9:55 9:55-10am

•Why is CR important to each organization?• Why is transparency important in the government marketplace?

•How can this group help promote the measurement and disclosure of CR in companies?

•Closing thoughts•Take Aways

•What is the Roadmap forward given what we have heard today?

•Why are we here today? •Why is transparency and accountability important to GSA?•Why is performance measurement important to OMB?

Welcome/keynote Panel Small groups Panel Steps/close

GSA


CROA will convene a Steering Committee to shape and guide the Roundtable vision and approach

Kick off meeting in September followed by quarterly meeting

The Committee will include government contractors, nonprofits and academia

We will convene government focus groups to interact with the larger steering committee as needed

All Corporate members of the Steering Committee must be members in good standing of CROA and the Roundtable. Dues information may be found at: www.croassociation.org/content/benefits-and-dues


Reconvene the full Roundtable participants at GW

Topic: How the White House and the Congress are approaching performance measurement and how the Roundtable can help

Potential Speakers: ◦ Senator Warner (or Amy Edwards who heads the Government

Performance taskforce for the Senate Budget Committee)◦ Shelley Metzenbaum, Associate Director for Performance Measurement

and Personnel, OMB

Next steps: Break into working groups to focus on how performance measurement could be used to increase transparency and accountability in the contractor community. Report back to Hill and OMB in November/December


The Roundtable will continue to meet as a full group (quarterly) and in smaller working groups (monthly) to focus on specific goals and objectives

The Steering Committee will meet quarterly to oversee the vision and direction of the Roundtable

The Roundtable will deliver a set of findings, deliverables and recommendations to improve corporate responsibility by Summer 2011

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Corporate Responsibility in the Public Interest: Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability Joiwind Ronen, Director [email protected]