Reporting strategy
Whether you’re an established reporter or taking your first step, a clear strategy ensures you keep pace with the latest regulations and frameworks.
How we’ve helped others
For General Motors
Our work developing a world-class reporting suite for General Motors was fuelled by a detailed benchmarking and gap analysis. Our insights helped General Motors enhance its disclosures against best practice reporting frameworks and regulatory requirements, including GRI, SASB, TCFD and the UN SDGs.
How we can help you
- Advise on which frameworks and regulations are most relevant to you, including GRI, SASB, TCFD, IFRS S1 and S2, ESRS and CSRD.
- Conduct gap analysis and benchmarking against your peers and target reporting standards.
- Develop a clear roadmap and strategy to evolve your reporting.
Content planning
From report type to structure, we develop a tailored content approach that meets your unique wants and needs.
How we’ve helped others
For Nestlé
We helped Nestlé transition from producing a single, extensive sustainability report to adopting a multi-faceted solution that included a streamlined progress report and a supporting website with accompanying case studies.
How we can help you
- Establish the right approach across sustainability, ESG, integrated and topic-focused reporting.
- Organise and structure your report to strengthen storytelling and disclosure.
- Bring your progress to life through case studies, KPIs and key messages.
Content collection
The best reports blend compelling stories with transparent data. We can help you collect the right information and implement a best practice approach to content management.
How we’ve helped others
For IDB Invest
For IDB Invest’s first sustainability report, Flag helped identify material gaps through targeted interviews, detailed research and in-depth workshops. We used the findings to write and design IDB Invest’s sustainability report and GRI index.
How we can help you
- Advise on the most streamlined approach to gather information, including data and content collection templates.
- Conduct interviews and workshops with content owners.
- Host workshops to identify your key messages and themes.
Reporting tools
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to reporting, so we tailor ours to meet your needs, with tools to manage everything from data collection to reviews.
How we’ve helped others
For HP
We’ve worked with HP since 2017 to produce its industry-leading sustainable impact report. Our end-to-end support has included transitioning HP to the Workiva platform so that subject matter experts and reviewers can collaborate more effectively – including gaining a better understanding of how the final report design will look while still in the copy review stage.
How we can help you
- Guide you to the most appropriate tools for your needs, including SharePoint, Workiva, PageProof, CtrlPrint, Annotate, Google Workspace , Asana and Quip.
- Support you with Workiva implementation, using our position as Workiva partners to help set up your ESG Program, framework mapping, factbook and report.
- Remain flexible to your requirements, working with any tools your team wants to use.
Production
Every copywriter and designer at Flag has a depth of sustainability expertise, spanning industries and geographies, and a wealth of ideas.
How we’ve helped others
For Molson Coors
Molson Coors tasked Flag with developing an ESG report that celebrated the previous year’s achievements while simultaneously announcing the launch of its refreshed brand identity.
How we can help you
- Develop an overarching theme, style and tone for your report.
- Bring your progress to life and elevate your brand identity through compelling storytelling, design and data visualisations.
- Iterate, refine and polish.
Launching with impact
In a complex and changeable landscape, it’s easy to get messaging wrong and miss a beat. We’ll help you start off on the right foot from day one.
How we’ve helped others
For the State of Nature Partnership
Having worked with the RSPB to produce its State of Nature report, we promoted the report launch through a suite of social media posts and national television and newspaper coverage.
How we can help you
- Develop a launch plan to engage your stakeholders in your report.
- Produce creative assets to help distribute key messages to a broader audience.
- Monitor report engagement and effectiveness.