We’ve seen a bunch of blog posts and reports on the Web about our Sept. 12 confab in Chicago, which dealt with the gamut of corporate responsibility and sustainability issues.
For example, Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio did a couple of podcasts about the conference, including one featuring an interview with CRO Magazine publisher Jay Whitehead.
It turns out that complexity in the corporate responsibility arena is not only good for selling newspapers (and, ahem, magazines), but is also fattening-up the ranks of corporate responsibility officers (CROs), as Whitehead tells it.
With millions of regulations on employment practices, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and environmental performance, coupled with the proliferation of new data-analysis tools to feed upcoming citizenship reports, corporations are looking for more than a few-good men and women to lead and implement CR efforts.
Speaking of leading efforts, John Davies of AMR Research, a CRO conference panel member, did a comprehensive write-up, “The CRO Flies,” on his impressions of the day’s conference happenings.
Similar to much of the feedback that we received, the event, as Davies puts it, was indeed “a one-day crash course on the initiatives they [attendees] need to start thinking about for their businesses.”
OK, enough of this self-promotion. We couldn’t resist.