A new way
To be more Sustainable
Responsible 100 proposes a new way for your business to be more sustainable and responsible.
Our vision is a world in which businesses compete in a race to the top. Where they compete on the price and quality of their products, as they do now, but also in terms of how much more positively they can impact people and planet.
A collaborative approach
We explore 22 responsibility issues across 8 broad categories: Business Design & Governance, Community, Environment, Ethical Choices, Human Rights, Marketplace Ethics, Technology, and Workforce. We partner with NGOs, campaign groups, academics and other issue experts to define Poor, Okay, Good and Excellent performance on each issue.
Simple Steps
We support your business through simple steps that will afford you a deeper understanding of the social, environmental and ethical issues we explore, and how to improve your practices.
Guidance
We help you get to grips with 22 issues, uncover the opportunities and threats each presents, and learn how to respond ever-better.
Improvement
Together, we map your current performance and create – and help you pursue – a bespoke and achievable improvement plan.
Community
Join a community of like-minded people and organisations, and enjoy resources and connections to benefit your business.
You choose how to tell the world that you are part of Responsible 100
Going through our process will enable you to make a number of powerful claims about your company. These claims reflect the work you will be doing. They also reflect key aims and concepts that underpin Responsible 100’s vision and model, which your participation will help us further test and refine.
These first 5 claims are available to all participants…
Competing in a Race to
the Top
Responsible 100’s vision is a world in which businesses compete in a race to the top. Where they compete on the price and quality of their products, as they do now, but also in terms of how much more positively they can impact people and planet.
Social, Environmental & Ethical
We support your business through simple steps. Steps that will afford you a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by the social, environmental and ethical issues on which you demonstrate responsibility.
Becoming Optimally Responsible
You’ll achieve optimal responsibility by investing the ideal amount of resources into the most relevant issues, improving your responsibility performance as fast as possible, according to your company’s size, sector and circumstances.
Practising Responsibility as a Skill
We help you to practise responsibility as a skill – that is you’ll get better at it, more experienced and confident, such that you do more, go further and become ever-bolder in your future responsibility practices and ambitions.
Responsibility Drives Profitability
Our model is designed to deliver commercial benefits to businesses prepared to innovate and take creative risks with regards to sustainability. When responsibility drives profitability, business wins, as does everyone else.
Openness Builds Trust with Stakeholders
We believe business has huge potential to make the world a better place, and that this potential can and must be successfully tapped. This requires connecting with the people who’ll buy from, work for and invest your company, because they want to support companies competing in the race to the top. Openness and accountability engenders trust and makes such connections possible.
Sharing With The World
The most powerful claims we expect the majority of Responsible 100 companies to make ultimately are that they are transparent, accountable, open, honest and trustworthy – because they are sharing their information with the public at large.
Currently, most participant businesses share their information (‘stories’) and performance scores with our expert partners and other participant businesses in our digital Library. Soon, they’ll also be able to share their information with the public at large, thus opening up the possibility of two further powerful claims…
Transparent & Accountable
We incentivise sharing because businesses that are transparent and accountable on the issues we explore become excellent choices for people who care about nature, cohesive society and our shared future, and wish to know which businesses to buy from, work for and invest in, to reward openness and accountability.
Open, Honest & Trusted
While it is unrealistic to expect businesses to be perfect, it is reasonable to expect them to be willing and able to explain and justify the things they do which impact people and planet. Responsible 100 is designed to reward businesses that are open, honest and trusted and to serve everyone who supports this aim.