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The ROI Communication Benchmark Report 2017

13 November 2016

The 2017 communication benchmark report incorporates ROI’s experience working with Fortune 500 companies over 15 years, with the report compiled from the responses of 115 leaders representing 4.5 million employees. The benchmark report uses a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of communication organisations. The benchmark model consists of...

Corporate responsibility a good business strategy

Wayne Burns and Coral Kee, Business Times (Singapore), 5 April 2007, 05 April 2007

The Centre for Corporate Affairs offers international best practice learnings on corporate citizenship and establishing a corporate foundation in this article. The foundation should focus on two to three areas of community investment, have clear objectives and a transparent governance structure. The company’s stakeholders should be consulted...

Corporate coaches emerge to make some difference

Geoff Allen, The Age, 27 July 2006, 27 July 2006

Geoff Allen, Chairman of the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, discusses new approaches by business to manage social and political issues. Managers are under increasing pressure with demands for more transparency and voice, growing distrust of business, more sophisticated media, and the emergence of shareholder activists and special interest...

Meeting the challenge of global corporate citizenship

Post, James E., Boston College Centre for Corporate Community Relations, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2000, 01 January 2000

This paper provides and overview and insight into the new world of global corporate citizenship. Key headings include: Business Responsibility in the New Millennium (outlines the primary and secondary drivers of change), The Challenge of Global Corporate Citizenship (discusses the complexity of the ‘citizenship equation’), Global Citizenship...

Issues identification, scanning and prioritisation: Emerging issues identification. The Australian United States Experience.

The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs., Unpublished., 01 May 1998 A presentation used at the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Workshop, May 1998 on Issues identification, scanning and prioritisation, the Australian and United States experience. Key headings include:- Public Affairs role and positioning: from service centre to strategic partnership - Identify issues at an early stage in their life cycle ...

Centre for Corporate Public Affairs - Investor Relations Workshop

Various, Unpublished, 1997, 16 September 1997

Proceedings of the Investor Relations Workshop organised by the Australian Centre for Corporate Public Affairs and held in Sydney, 16th September, 1997

The 1996 Federal Election Symposium (Australia)

Various, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Melbourne. 1996, 01 March 1996 Transcript of a symposium run jointly by the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs and Public Affairs Research Centre, University of Sydney following the Australian Federal Election in March, 1996. Session titles include: The result - The campaign - The issues - The thirty-eighth parliament - The new government and opposition.

Report of Australia and New Zealand Corporate Public Affairs Survey. 1996.

Centre for Corporate Public Affairs. Australia., Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Melbourne, 01 January 1996

The third report produced by the Centre aims to profile corporate public affairs functions and professional staff; portray those functions’ management practices; track the development of the function. Key headings include:- “Profile of Survey Respondents”; “How Enterprises Define Public Affairs”; “How Enterprises Manage Public Affairs”; ...

1994 National Public Affairs Survey. Appendix 2.

Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Melbourne, 1994., 01 January 1994

A copy of the survey distributed to key companies and enterprises across all industry sectors in 1994 by the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs. To be read in conjunction with Ka98 (Report of National Public Affairs Survey 1994).

The state of corporate public affairs : Executive summary.

Post, J. E. & Griffin, J., Found. for Publ. Aff. Management, Boston Uni. 96, A summary of the 1996 Corporate Public Affairs Survey, responses were from 260 companies. Headings include:- “Overview”, “Managing Public Affairs : External Relations”, “Managing Public Affairs : Internal Issues”, “Meeting the Technology Challenge”, “Looking Ahead - What P.A.O’s think”.