An increasing number of enterprises and organisations use stakeholder dialogues as way to learn about society’s actual social responsibility expectations. Involving a representative selection of internal and external stakeholders in continuous stakeholder dialogues, provides the basis for a reality-based sustainability strategy.
Using stakeholder dialogues to calibrate operations against society, means that operational quality assurance is achieved through a structured process of mapping and adressing society’s opinions, demands and commitments. A well-planned process of stakeholder engagement can also be expected to yield concret results such as:
Nestor provides consultancy services to companies and organisations in their work on stakeholder engagement. Our methods and tools for a structures approach to stakeholder identification and engagement are based on the standard ISO 26000 – Guidance on social responsibility.