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Management Services Winter 2012
Facing the challenge
Performance support
In an overview of the London Global Convention 2012, Professor Colin Coulson- Thomas describes how performance support approaches, tools and techniques can address governance and sustainability challenges.
Delegates attending the Indian Institute of Directors’ London Global Convention from 10- 13 October 2012 will not be under any illusion about the challenges we face. Embracing both corporate governance and sustainability, its planners clearly exhibit the integrated thinking championed by Professor Mervyn King, the chairman of South Africa’s King Committee on corporate
governance and a keynote speaker at the event.
The realities faced by business and political leaders are stark. Peter Madden of the Forum for the Future referred to the need for profound changes to cope with a threefold increase in the population of the planet within a single lifetime. Dr Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute, forecast increasing prices for basic foods,
materials and low carbon alternatives. Dr Jeremy Leggett of Solarcentury sees us engaged in natural destruction rather than creative destruction. For Adrian Allsop of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council better engagement, learning from the experiences of others and behavioural changes are required. As we will see in this article there are practical and cost-effective
ways of achieving these goals. Sustainable strategies require new forms of governance and leadership for remaining current and competitive and coping with an uncertain future.
Hitherto corporate
governance has been much concerned with board structures and the formulation of codes of practice. Dr Jeremy Pearce reminded delegates
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