Reviewing Green-Bank, provocative idea..

Today's topic would be:

If we asking or discussing about social impact or environment impact against mining company, gas company, oil or even plantation company then there will be much bullet points explaining this, that..etc..

But if we asking against banking company.. then the answer might not be so easy or at least not as fast as those company who explore natural resource or operate in agriculture based company.

For an instant answer to start a discussion, we think that banking company is included in most company using paper-based promotion, administration and support system. If we specify per item of what are their paper-based needs, we could say;
a. Brochures
b. deposit slip
c. transfer slip
d. withdrawal slip
e. transfer slip
f. Account application form
g. Credit application form
h. Mortage application form
i. product leaflets
j. terms and conditions
k. etc..

then if they launching their new product, then they will have tons of posters, banners..

We could see by our own eyes that their paper waste is high..so what are the solutions to encounter that issues in order to be acknowledge green-banking?

Worldwide banking such as Citibank has start e-statement, e-promotion even e-rewards book, provide on-line banking, mobile banking, etc..

Yes that has provenly create vulnerability that leave room for internal people or a great hacker to create fraud transaction..

In Indonesia, it is on-going case of MD (initial name) as one of trusted official by the bank to serve their priority customers that now being investigate with fraud that has suffered Citibank customers great deal of loss.

But if in terms of effort to majorly reduce their paper needs then what they did was great an consider as innovative.

Another new idea that I could provocatively propose is; changing a cheque book into "password-based" with combination of number and alphabetical learning from what Western Union did for their money wired transaction method.

Imagine if we could do that then perhaps we have less risk of blank cheque missing, and criminal risk during our way to bank to cash our cheque.

other idea to improve their strategic plan in regards to reducing energy use, is by analyzing location for atm, why.. if we don't analyze it well then we end up with one atm using one AC supported by one generator that use fossil fuel. Then we could calculate how much we could cut, if we decide to open the atm in a building that has already central AC and has already electricity power.

Therefore no additional generator and AC per atm.

Or try to design an atm room with good air circulation therefore no AC, good lighting (window, etc) then no lamp, or just try to use solar energy or wind energy as source.

Just an idea of my restless sleep last night.. again personal opinion..

Strategic Plan

Today's topic would be:

 

Strategic Plan

To start your CSR framework, you need to have a strategic plan, it could be for period of five years or 10 years. The important thing is that within that document you need to anylize your target, set an indicator of your performance, and milestone per year so then you understand what to do every year.

there are some organization supply free strategic plan for CSR by free sometime, you search one of them at the net. One of them is mystrategicplan.com, here is what they view about strategic CSR;

 

So what is Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility? By taking a strategic approach, companies can determine what activities they have the resources to devote to being socially responsible and can choose that which will strengthen their competitive advantage. By planning out CSR as part of a company’s over all plan, organizations can ensure that profits and increasing shareholder value don’t overshadow the need to behave ethically to their stakeholders.


Strategic CSR provides companies with solutions for:

• Balancing the creating of economic value with that of societal value
• How to manage their stakeholder relationships (especially those with competing values)
• Identifying and responding to threats and opportunities facing their stakeholders
• Developing sustainable business practices
• Deciding the organization’s capacity for philanthropic activities

 Other than that is using Balance Score Card, but not just any BSC since this is more similar to non provit project, then we need to apply the social enterprise BSC. This is also freely provided by some organization at the internet, one of them is http://www.proveandimprove.org/new/tools/socialenterprise.php

 

Key: White circles reflect objectives
Dotted arrows reflect cause and effect linkages
Note: this is meant as an example; organisations customise their strategy maps to reflect their goals

Jadi caranya adalah pertama buat Strategi CSR or Sustainability Anda, kemudian identifikasi tolak ukur keberhasilannya melalui analisa indikator keberhasilan dimana setiap indikator harus bisa dibuktikan dengan data kuantitatif dan data kualitatif.

terakhir adalah, monitoring pencapaian atau pelakasanaan berdasarkan indikator dan milestone yang sudah kita buat.

Analisa kembali apakah dalam kurun waktu yang direncanakan target tersebut akan tercapai, jika tidak mulai analisa kendala nya lalu analisa resikonya dan identifikasi solusinya hingga Anda bisa membuat revisi strategy atau rencana startegy lanjutan.

Many companies does not have a strategic plan particularly for CSR or Sustainability, that may be what cause some company didn't do excellent in their CSR performance, they just did but no direction, no performance indicator, then under what indicator they could say they succeed?

this is purely personal opinion with meant only to take a lesson learn

 

Social Responsibility (?)

Today's topic would be:

Social Responsibility..?

As we all may read in news paper, watch in television, news channel, radio and internet that our world is now facing several crisis.

Middle east with their awaken-democracy spirit rebel the rulling government who has been rulled for decades..

Japan eart quake and tsunami, with additional of nuclear crisis and economy challenges ahead them as an after shock of their natural dissaster, factories closed, people jobless, poverty will soon be a threat..

While the rest of the world are fighting to green economic with sustainability development as their new point of view and faith.. balancing profit and protecting planet and prospering the people are not easy nor simple.. it takes long debatable effort, commitments and faith towards betterment of our dear live in earth.. our existing as human being, a mojority species on earth.. or for some people on..entire universe..

If we take Corporate Social Responsibility as a topic then we might talked about how the business in Japan response to their crisis, how Tepco mitigate their nuclear crisis..

how Unilever might act with their supplier and vendor in terms of fullfiling their green commitment or how KFC said they would change their oil with rapeseed oil from palm oil.

But with what happend in Japan, in middle east and other crisis all over the world.. I think its about time we ask about "Country Social Responsibility" if a corporate can be consider as a corporate citizenship, then why not a country?

We then could talk about how a country could share some responsibility from what they are doing as a business, as a community that effect to other country as their neighbour.. If we think that then human relief to neighbouring country will be consider as mandatory relief.. beacuse if that country failed to survive then will create a domino effect world wide..

then we further ask about how each country treat their waste management, their carbon footprint, their water and soil..

do they comply with Human rights, with environment management like ISO 14001? etc...

why not bother a country? ... debat them.. why not?

why only hit a corporate when if in some facts government of a country contributes half of their sins? because their in charge with monitoring, license and certain kind of certification that they said has to be comply with..

If a president of a house member vocally support to reduce green house gases provoke their business community and people to concern with carboon foot print, then why not asked them their own track record on carbon foot print? how their country minimize the use of fossil energy? ..etc..

then when its done, we again question, how about our personal social responsibility? to your family, to your neighbour.. to your community.. to your country..

So I guess the bottom line is that;

Social responsibility is not about who doing it? is about how you do it? .. and the most importance thing is every one, every community, every business and every country need to doing it..

Only by then, our dear planet could reach a balance..and sustainbility will achieved