Managing Corporate Responsibility
The Corporate Responsibility Council is the highest-level CR management body within Alcatel-Lucent. Chaired by CEO Ben Verwaayen, the council counts eight members, including senior executives, members of the Management Committee and CR Department and two outside experts. The CR Council meets four times a year. It sets CR priorities and goals, tracks progress, advises on key CR strategy issues, provides perspective on potential risks and opportunities and makes recommendations to the Management Committee on emerging and critical sustainability issues.
Corporate Responsibility Operations
The Corporate Responsibility Department defines and drives implementation of the company's CR strategy and initiatives worldwide. It is responsible for consolidating all the social, economic and environmental indicators used to monitor progress. CR operations throughout the Group are handled by the members of the Corporate Responsibility Network. Network members come from a dozen different entities, including the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, Environment, Health and Safety, Bell Labs, Public Affairs, Human Resources, Office of Business Conduct, Corporate Communications, Risk and Crisis Management, Governance and Purchasing.
CR network members are responsible for:
- Helping define, manage, implement and be held accountable for CR action plans in their respective domains of expertise;
- Ensuring CR messages and actions are in line with the Group's overall CR strategy, current global challenges and customer business imperatives;
- Serving as ambassadors of Alcatel-Lucent's CR strategy internally and externally.
World Economic Forum
Our strategic relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF) was integrated into the Corporate Responsibility function in early 2011. To continue building on our strong executive corporate engagement with the WEF, in early 2011 we designated specific Alcatel-Lucent members from diverse functions to act as WEF correspondents. Each will be held accountable for our representation and relationships within various WEF workgroups, communities and regional events. The initial members of this WEF network are from all three world regions and as well as Bell Labs, Public Affairs, Marketing, Strategy and Communication. They will work closely with our executive leaders and Corporate Responsibility group to maintain our proactive engagement on "improving the state of the world".
2011 Sustainability Yearbook
Alcatel-Lucent was selected for inclusion in The Sustainability Yearbook 2011 by the SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) sustainability investment group. The yearbook includes the top scoring 15% of the world's largest 2,500 companies in each of 58 sectors. Alcatel-Lucent was named "SAM Sector Mover", which is awarded to the company that achieved the biggest proportional improvement in its sustainability performance compared with the previous year. The Group was further selected to the SAM Silver Class, a distinction awarded to SAM Sector Leaders with a total score of 70-to-75%.
The Group's CR commitment, policies and achievements were further recognized at the beginning of 2011 as Alcatel-Lucent continues to be a member company of the FTSE 4Good index. The index lists companies that meet globally recognized corporate responsibility standards.
Alcatel-Lucent also prepared its 2010 Corporate Responsibility report using the GRI (G3) guidelines. Following GRI review, it received a GRI Application Level Check Statement B+. It has been subject to an independent review process by Ernst & Young. The full scope of their review and conclusions can be found in their Independent Verification Statement (See page 105 of our CR Report).
