Corporate Social Responsibility

Consip’s social responsibility is one that derives both directly from the public function it absolves and indirectly from the social profile of its activity, whose effects are felt by every stakeholder the company interacts with, meaning those whose behaviour influences Consip’s activity and whose activity is in turn influenced by Consip.

The values that Consip has embodied to define its social responsibility, even though they are not enunciated in a chart or manifesto, are clear. They are:

• Supporting and facilitating the cultural change of Public Administration.
• Aggregate professional know-how and competences at the service of Public Administration.
• Produce economic gains and efficiency directly in Public Administration and indirectly in the country at large.
• Guarantee fairness and transparency.
• Invest on the capabilities and knowledge of its employees in order to take position, alongside the Administration, on the frontier of management innovation.

The tools that are required to manage corporate social responsibility are diverse and differ in range. Their introduction requires care, conviction, organizational preparation and corporate culture. If it can prove easy to adopt new tools, it is much more difficult to assimilate them and make them perceptible to one’s stakeholders.

Consip opted to move in a gradual way, through a medium and long term cultural investment, putting substance before an “everything now” approach. For Consip, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a fashion to follow, but rather a concrete management value that the company has adopted to kick star and improve the involvement of stakeholders, gradually adopting ever more sophisticated tools.
Among the tools that Consip has adopted to manage its corporate social responsibility there are:

• The adoption since 2001 of a Code of Ethics that has been disseminated to all personnel and suppliers.
• The tendency to report on facts, and not only on figures through the drafting of an Annual Report on the company’s activity.
• The organization of professional training sessions on CSR in a public context.
• The creation of a Vigilance Organ.
• The launch of a project aimed at measuring the intellectual capital of the company.
• The institutionalization of a regular dialogue with stakeholders and their involvement in corporate initiatives.

Beginning with 2005, Consip decided to include in its corporate social responsibility policies visibility and knowledge transfer initiatives. Companies are ever more often called upon to integrate social responsibility into their corporate culture –adapting their governance to this effort, involving in a systematic way the stakeholders and behaving in a correct, coherent and transparent way- and also to testify externally from their corporate dimension their effort on behalf of these values.

These are some of the initiatives taken by Consip in the area of CSR visibility:

• CSR on the Consip website. The Consip website (www.consip.it) has a profile that is basically informative of the company’s results, activities and best practices and aims to transfer to the various stakeholders the “perception” of the company’s worth. With this in mind, 2005 witnessed the publication of a detailed section on Corporate Social Responsibility with maximum visibility on the website home page that traces the path that has been followed by the company in implementing its CSR within the European dimension identified in Lisbon in 2000.
• Consip and Sodalitas. In 2004, Consip took part for the first time in the Premio Sodalitas Social Awards, a prize that is given every year to the companies that have distinguished themselves in implementing high social value programs. The company has decided to participate also in 2005, with the presentation of three projects: The “Performance Evaluation System” (SVP) for the prize category “Internal social responsibility corporate processes”, the “Enterprise Counter” for the prize category “Community partnership programs” and “Green procurement” for the prize category “Highly Innovative Social or Environmental Product or Service”.