CASE STUDIES:
STRATEGY & IMPACT PLANNING
SELECTED CASE STUDIES:
THE TIMKEN COMPANY
When The Timken Company, a global steel and manufacturing company, identified its historic commitment to global citizenship as a unique business advantage, it contacted BrownFlynn to help develop a long-term strategy and goals. BrownFlynn designed and facilitated a stakeholder engagement process to uncover important elements of the company’s current global citizenship practices while also identifying opportunities for the future. In partnership with a cross-functional working group, BrownFlynn helped The Timken Company to develop a global citizenship mission, identify goal areas and gather information for Timken’s first-ever Global Citizenship Report.
In 2009, BrownFlynn counseled Timken on the creation of global citizenship targets in areas such as environmental stewardship, employee engagement, community investment and volunteerism.
Carbon and Climate Change Strategy and Reporting
In 2009, BrownFlynn was retained by a large consumer products company with US$1.6 billion FY09 revenue to prepare them for new supplier disclosure requirements from Wal-Mart.
BrownFlynn conducted a carbon inventory assessment, which resulted in the following:
- Measurement of Scope 1, Scope 2 and partial Scope 3 emissions,
- Identification of cost and carbon reduction opportunities,
- Assessment of preparation to respond to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP),
- Education on the Wal-Mart Product Sustainability Index,
- Advisory on best practices within environmental disclosure to avoid legal and reputational risk,
- Advisory on software to measure, manage and report on sustainability performance data, and
- Analysis on new draft GHG Protocol Standards for Scope 3 and Product Life Cycle Reporting
BrownFlynn continues to advise the large consumer products company on sustainability strategy and communication.
Sustainability Rankings Advisory Services
In 2009, BrownFlynn was hired by a Fortune 200 company to educate their team on the sustainability rankings landscape and identify rankings with greatest credibility and strategic value for product and market messaging.
Utilizing BrownFlynn’s proprietary Framework for Prioritization™, BrownFlynn evaluated 30 leading rankings with the following results:
- Development of more than 40 concrete, strategic recommendations to improve performance and monitor the rapidly changing rankings landscape,
- Shortlist of prioritized rankings identified,
- Analysis of competitive performance relative to selected peers,
- Distillation of industry-wide best practices, and
- Guidance on emerging trends and changing methodologies
The Fortune 200 company has asked BrownFlynn to produce an additional research report, and to provide guidance on future sustainability communications and the evolution of their sustainability program.
FAIRMOUNT MINERALS
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN
As part of Fairmount Minerals’ efforts to advance its sustainable practices, the company made a commitment in 2007 to increase its relationships with sustainable organizations. To achieve this goal, Fairmount Minerals sought to develop a sustainable supply chain code of conduct. Fairmount Minerals requested BrownFlynn’s guidance in developing a code of conduct and internal guidelines for implementation.
Together with Fairmount’s dedicated Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative Team, BrownFlynn created a new supplier code of conduct that outlined the environmental, social and economic factors that Fairmount Minerals takes into consideration with any supplier relationship. Once the code was in place, BrownFlynn developed guidelines for its use, helping Fairmount purchasers know the ways in which they can apply the code when making purchasing decisions. In early 2009, Inside Business magazine recognized Fairmount Minerals for its excellence in sustainable supply chain management.
