Madrid, March 10th, 2014. The importance of intangible assets as a management and value creation tool is clear. One of Corporate Excellence’s key objectives is to demonstrate the economic impact of intangible assets and resources. The truth is that the new reputation-driven economic system needs reliable and rigorous long-term indicators such as brand, reputation, employees’ commitment and customer satisfaction. These indicators help companies to engage their stakeholders and develop long-term strategies. This was the starting point of the 1st Conference on Innovation in Metrics held last week in Madrid by Corporate Excellence jointly with one of its key allies, Dircom Spain.  José Manuel Velasco, Dircom’s Preside...

Madrid, January 30th 2014. Corporate Reputation, the new title in the Corporate Excellence Series, was presented at Columbia Business School yesterday.  The presentation of Corporate Reputation took place at Columbia Business School; around 50 top experts in the area of reputation attended to the event; including Roger Bolton, President of Arthur Page Society, the largest U.S. Association of professionals working in the field of public relations and corporate communication. Corporate Excellence – Centre for Reputation Leadership and Arthur Page Society work together in a project on The New Communication Model. The project is based on a publication by the American association which looks at such important issues as adapting corporate ...

Medellin, Colombia, October 29, 2013. Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership presented the main findings of the study “What makes a CCO Excellent?” (El Chief Communications Officer del futuro in Spanish) at the 2ndInternational Conference on Reputation in Latino America that is being celebrated in Medellin. It is a research study carried out by Cees van Riel, Professor of Corporate Communication at the Rotterdam School of Management – Erasmus University along with Corporate Excellence  - Centre for Reputation Leadership.  The study was carried out between June 2011 and December 2012. In depth interviews and surveys were made to 117 Communication Directors of large enterprises in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, It...

Madrid, October 2nd, 2013. Yesterday, at Gas Natural Fenosa in Barcelona it was presented Corporate Reputation. This is the last book of the series developed jointly by Corporate Excellence  - Centre for Reputation Leadership and LID Editorial. It is the second book published under this framework of collaboration. In this case, it is a manual on one of the most important non-financial assets for organizations, corporate reputation. The manual, the first one of the field published in Spanish, is a comprehensive overview of all research and scientific contributions made in reputation studies so far, analysed from three perspectives: financial, psychological and sociological, mirroring its three authors’ respective areas of interest: Ángel Alloza (psychologist), Enrique...

Madrid, June 26, 2013. Summer Courses of the Complutense University of Madrid will be held for the 26th time in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. They are presented with a very diverse program as well as speakers. For the second year, Corporate Excellence  - Centre for Reputation Leadership will hold a course on intangible assets management. The Summer Courses are sponsored by the División Global Santander Universidades. They will take place through the 1st of July and the 26th. There will be a total of 114 activities. Specifically, Corporate Excellence  - Centre for Reputation Leadership will present the course “Communication and intangible assets: from persuasion to advocacy”. This specific course will take place on the 8th and 9th o...

Barcelona, June 6, 2013. The Spanish Think Tank Corporate Excellence – Centre for Reputation Leadership and LID Editorial launch the second book of the Corporate Excellence Series. Corporate Reputation at the 17th Annual Global Conference on Corporate Reputation. Corporate Reputation takes us to the psychosocial phenomenon of corporate reputation. It goes through the history of the corporate reputation concept and consolidates its scientific character thanks to metrics and management models. The book gathers research studies and scientific research on the subject analyzed from three different perspectives: financial, psychological and sociological views thanks to the three specialy fields of the authors: Ángel Alloza (psychologist), Enrique Carreras ...

Madrid, April 23, 2013. At the European Commission, American SEC or the Spanish CNMV, there is a consensus among the main global organisms that work on corporate information about the necessity to integrate financial information and non-financial information in order to understand companies’ reality. Currently, there is a high number of multiple initiatives in this field. Corporate management reports are evolving towards economic, social and environmental information gathering that helps C-suites to make decisions faster, and based on synthetic and trustworthy information. The information gathering process has made important progress regarding Integrated Reporting elaboration. Recently, the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) initiative has presented a first...

Madrid, January 30, 2013. Intangible assets management is becoming increasingly important to business strategies of large corporations. Proof of this is; 40% of these executives have already joined the Steering Committees according to a research sponsored by Corporate Excellence with the participation of 117 Communications Director of large companies from the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico and Chile. CCO is now manager of key intangible assets: reputation, brand, communications and public affairs and increase their influence with stakeholders, including sectorial organizations, social organizations, investors and institutional relationships. Communication with employees represents 14% of their time, the same time spent on the relationships with th...

Madrid, January 10, 2013. This morning, Iberdrola  has been chosen by unanimity by Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership Board of Trustees -BBVA, Iberdrola, La Caixa, Repsol, Santander and Telefónica- to chair the Foundation during the period 2013-2015. In the Board of Trustees, Iberdrola is represented by José Luis González-Besada Valdés, Communications Director at Iberdrola. González-Besada, 53-year-old, native of Ponteceso (La Coruña), holds a degree in Communications from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is specialized in economic and financial journalism, and worked as head of the Economy section, Deputy Director and Assistant Director at the Spanish newspaper ABC for twenty years. New faces Mar&iacu...

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. ...

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 conf...

The 5th Executive Programme for Management of Intangibles, which is being co-directed by Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership and the Escuela de Organización Industrial – EOI [School for Industrial Organisation], will commence on 26 October in Madrid. Applications for the course are currently being accepted (marina@corporateexcellence.org). The Executive Programme for Management of Intangibles, which comprises 165 hours of coursework, is designed to help those professionals seeking to develop their skills in the area of intangibles management - primarily with multinational firms. The programme is also aimed at professionals who are currently working in the areas of corporate reputation and brand management, communications, public affairs, marketing, corpora...

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 ...

Los indicadores no financieros miden el estado de salud de los activos y recursos intangibles que son clave para la organización: por ejemplo, el índice de reputación, de marca corporativa, de satisfacción de los clientes, de compromiso y alineamiento de la organización, de propensión a recomendar nuestra empresa/producto. Mientras que los indicadores financieros nos informan sobre cuánto dinero hemos ganado en el pasado, los indicadores no financieros nos permiten cuantificar cuánta riqueza vamos a generar en el futuro.  Corporate Excellence de la mano de la Universidad Jaume I trabajará en el desarrollo de indicadores no financieros de largo plazo que complementen a los financieros y que puedan ser integrados en los cua...