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18/07/2025

Searching for sustainble solutions for the crisis, purpose of the 21st Conferece Eben-Spain

Madrid, May 16, 2013. More than one hundred experts from around the world will meet in the 21st Conference Eben-Spain on June 19-20th. Building trust: ethic institutions and proposals for sustainable companies.The Conference has been consolidated has a reference point in the field; this edition seeks to find practical solutions for the current crisis: “In a crucial moment as the one we are going through, it is more important than ever to join visions and strength to re-build the trust that crisis has taken away. We need sustainability and ethics to be an important element for companies’ strategy and from the academic institutions we need to provide with pragmatic answers to the crisis” stated José Luis Fernández, Director at the Cátedra de Ética Económica y Empresarial at the Comillas University, and who is responsible for the Conference organization.Some of the participants of the 21st Conference Eben-Spain are: Steve Young, Global Director of Caux Round Table; Miguel Ángel García, CSR Director at the Spanish Ministry of Employment; Juan José Almagro, DIRSE President; Alberto Urtiaga, Honour President at Forética; Domingo Sugranyes Bickel, President at Fondazione Centesimus Annus-Pro Pontifice; Joan Fontrodona, President of Eben-Spain; Antonio Argandoña, Director Cátedra “la Caixa” CSR and Corporate Government; as well as professors from different universities, and Directors from sponsoring companies like Telefónica, BBVA, Ernds & Young.The Spanish Infanta, Mrs. Elena de Borbón y Grecia, will be at the The Honors Committee and the Minister of Employment and Social Security, Ms. Fátima Báñez García, both former students of Comillas University.Apart from the conferences, there will be seventy-five scholars presenting a total of thirty-five communications which will be subsequently published by the Cátedra de Ética Económica y Empresarial of the Comillas University. The Conference will take place at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, located in Alberto Aguilera, 23 Madrid.


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18/07/2025

Driving the Management of Intangible Assets

Since Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership was created, we have achieved what we marked. 2012 has been a year in which a large number of projects and new initiatives have been implemented, all of them related to the six activity areas in Corporte Excellence: Reputation, Brand, Communications, Metrics, Public Affairs and Training. Now that the time for accounting has arrived, we are proud of our results. Along 2012, Corporate Excellence has conducted 36 activities for its members; from workshops, best practices meeting and training activities. All our activities have been very well received by professionals of this field. We have reached a participation average of 21 participants per activity, we have 87.8% of satisfaction, and 97% of recommendation by our participants. Throughout this exercise, Corporate Excellence has partnered with 43 organizations from both, public and private sector, and has participated in 17 business and academic conferences. Regarding the production and distribution of information and data about intangible assets management, we have prepared 70 documents, including research, case studies, articles and insights and 72 videos including top-level interviews among the highest qualified professionals of the field. In addition, this year we have reached 2604 subscriptions to our newsletter and we expect to keep growing in the intangible assets community in the years to come. In just over a year, Corporate Excellence has become an important worldwide model helping companies to navigate in the new economic cycle called "reputation economy". With this confidence, we are looking forward to keep working to face new and future challenges and take advantages of the opportunities that will come.


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18/07/2025

The Chief Communications Officer (CCO), key figure for companies to successfully compete in the Reputation Economy

Madrid October 18, 2012. 88% of large companies worldwide believe reputation has become a key factor for business success, according to the study “Navigating in the Reputation Economy” conducted among 300 major international companies by Reputation Institute. The report shows that 68.1% of companies admit to be in the incipient stage of this reputation strategic management, however, it anticipates that there will be an important progress in this field over the next five years. According to the companies surveyed, the main challenges are: active management of all their stakeholders (for 55.6% of respondents) and strategic alignment (36.3%). Therefore, communication is going to be one of the keys to reputation management, thus the role of the communications director is configured as the main role for managing corporate reputation (55.9%). According to Beverly Nannini, Director of Consulting and Operations at Reputation Institute in Spain and Latin America, "in order to successfully compete in the Reputation Economy, companies need to face the necessary organizational changes to integrate this intangible transversely across the company departments and thus, constitute a basic KPI when formulating corporate strategy. It is a complex process that involves the renovation of some traditional roles. In the most advanced companies, the strategic definition of reputation is made by consensus between the CEO and CCO (Chief Communications Officer), being the latter the responsible for its implementation". The reputation of Spanish companies According to the study Reputation Management in Spain, conducted by Dr. Ana Casado, researcher at the University of Málaga, in the last 10 years by 45% of companies surveyed have already started to manage corporate reputation. In the case of large Spanish multinationals and corporations, this figure rises to 80%. According to this study, 55% of reputation directors have the profile of the Communications Director and 60% of the reputation areas are integrated into corporate communications departments, although there is a great variety in organizational nomenclatures. In this regard, Dr. Casado believes that "reputation management is enabling communication areas increasingly influence the definition and implementation of the overall strategy." Five stages Analysing the success cases of leading firms in corporate reputation management, Reputation Institute has developed a “roadmap” (The Voyage of Reputation Management) that describes how to integrate at the highest level strategic reputation in five stages: 1. Defining reputation metrics and initial measurements. 2. Knowledge about stakeholder expectations and interests. 3. Linking reputation indicator with other business metrics. 4. Transversal reputation management within the company and integration of the reputation indicator in the scorecard. 5. Integration of reputation in the company strategy and operations. About Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership A new think tank to professionalize management of intangible assets and contribute to the development of strong brands with good reputation and able to compete in to the global market. About Reputation Institute Reputation Institute is the world's leading reputation management consultancy, enabling leaders to make more confident business decisions that build and protect reputational capital and drive competitive advantage. Founded in 1997 by Charles Fombrun (USA) and Cees Van Riel (Netherlands), they operate in 30 countries. Reputation Institute provides best-in-class reputation consulting to empower more confident decision-making, enabling its clients to achieve their corporate objectives.


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18/07/2025

Corporate Excellence and LID present Alinear para ganar

Madrid, April 20, 2012. Spanish think tank Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership and publishing house LID Editorial have today presented Alinear para ganar, the Spanish-language version of The Alignment Factor. Leveraging the Power of Total Stakeholder Support, the latest book by Cees van Riel, Professor of Corporate Communication at the Rotterdam School of Management and Vice-Chairman of the Reputation Institute. This book, which deals with stakeholder management, is the first volume in the new Corporate Excellence Library on corporate reputation. In the words of the author, “Total stakeholder support, which is the strongest form of alignment, gives a company tremendous leverage that opens markets, wins government permission to do business and minimizes problems”. The message is very simple: if business areas and departments work together, respect and contribute to one another, then the possibilities of success increase exponentially. The book explains how to build up an excellent reputation by aligning stakeholders with corporate strategy. In recent years Van Riel has studied the cases of Barclays, BBVA, Deloitte, Delta, FedEx, Gas Natural Fenosa, General Electric, Google, Iberdrola, IBM, IKEA, ING, Johnson&Johnson, KLM, La Caixa, McDonalds, Monsanto, Nestlé, Nokia, Novartis, Petrobrás, Philips, PWC, Randstat, Repsol, Santander, Shell, Sony, Southwest Airlines, Telefónica, Toyota and Unilever, among other firms. He asserts that the most successful firms understand that “the most brilliantly designed and calculated strategy is (…) doomed to utter failure if the key stakeholders that the organization depends upon do not support it”. Luis Abril, Chair of Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership states that “today a sound message can only be transmitted if companies manage to align their internal and external stakeholders with their strategy through corporate reputation management”. He believes that the book presented here “represents a highly valuable, useful asset for CEOs, General Managers and other management committee members seeking to tackle the processes of far-reaching transformation entailed by the new economy of reputation”.


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18/07/2025

Corporate Excellence & LID Editorial set up corporate reputation management library

Madrid, April 19, 2012. Spanish think tank Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership and publishing house LID Editorial have set up their new Corporate Excellence Library “to help firms and professionals create strong brands with good reputations, capable of competing in global markets”. The Corporate Excellence Library seeks to become a benchmark for Spanish-language publications on the management of key intangibles such as brand, reputation and corporate communication. Its publications will initially be distributed in Spain, Latin America and the USA, and will also be available in e-book format through the main online sales platforms. The first volume in the Library is to be Alinear para Ganar, which deals with managing influence and stakeholder groups. This is the Spanish-language version of The Alignment Factor by Cees van Riel, Professor of Corporate Communication at the Rotterdam School of Management and Vice-Chairman of the Reputation Institute. In the words of LID editor César Piernavieja, “this library is a clear example because from this very first volume it is to offer the world of business the tools that it needs to strengthen its operations and become more competitive in an uncertain environment”. Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership is a think tank supported by major global companies with the remit of professionalising corporate reputation management as a strategic resource for guiding and building up business value throughout the world. LID Editorial was founded by Marcelino Elosúa in 1993. It is currently one of the leading business and management publishing houses in the Spanish language, and has a strong presence in both Spain and Latin America.


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18/07/2025

Scorecards in the 21st Century: How to Integrate Non-Financial Indicators

Integration of non-financial indicators in scorecards and trying to understand the impact that this step may have on the business model in terms of strategic decision-making is the topic that was discussed today during the workshop titled Integration of Non-Financial Indicators in the Balanced Scorecard. According to the members of Corporate Excellence, financial indicators point to the results achieved in the past, while non-financial indicators (such as the reputation, the brand, customer satisfaction and commitment to the employees) may be indicative of the amount of wealth that will be generated in future. This was the starting point of the meeting, which attempted to combine theory and practice by developing non-financial indicators that could complement the financial ones and be included in the balanced scorecards of companies. Led by Enrique Carreras, Professor of the CEU – San Pablo University, participants reviewed the “reputation” construct and methods that are acceptable from the academic perspective for reputation management. These academically approved methods include RepTrak Pulse, praised for its simplicity and the capacity to involve different stakeholders in the measurement of reputation. In her turn, Macarena Estevez, the Director of the marketing consulting firm Conento, presented an in-depth overview of the characteristics, peculiarities and indicators of balanced scorecards. Balanced scorecards facilitate the decision-making process and control in companies. Conento’s Director emphasised the complexity of this business tool and noted that success depends on involving all divisions of the organisation in development and application of the balanced scorecard. The BBVA Case The practical perspective this time was contributed by BBVA. Maria Such, responsible for BBVA’s reputation and brand positioning, presented a project that was initiated by her company to integrate non-financial indicators (reputation, brand and experience, in this case). For two years the financial institution tried to demonstrate the impact of intangibles on its business model. Such concluded that there is a direct relationship between growth of non-financial indicators and business growth. According to Maria Such, this tool allows the reputation and brand department to identify the main drivers of value growth that affect the strategic decision-making process. Thus, BBVA is setting an example that may be followed by other members of Corporate Excellence that are just starting to work in this direction.


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