For organisations whose competitive advantage depends on anticipating societal and political developments as a key component of their strategy, EPPA is uniquely well placed to assist. We contribute to the whole strategy cycle to help you create sustainable value. We help you to analyse, measure and improve your organisation's impact on society. We provide a systematic, tailor made process that guides and facilitates your own ability to identify your key issues, determine the optimal response for your organisation, implement change and measure the results. Normally, this is a continuous activity over a period of time.

Amongst the range of services and techniques EPPA offers in the management of societal issues are:

• Overview of CSR in Europe
• a 7 step process to best practice in corporate social and environmental responsibility
• scenario planning
• measurement tools for evaluating reputation with various key stakeholders
• risk and crisis management tools
• running tailor made training programmes & workshops on change management

Our commitment is to help our clients achieve Sustainable Business Excellence by mastering continuous, externally driven, change. An increasingly important source of that change is 'civil society' and changes in social values and political behavior.This has resulted in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) appearing on company agendas. The value of a business is increasingly dependent on its reputation with a diverse set of stakeholders who have a wide variety of frequently conflicting expectations. Trust is hard to build, hard to maintain but easily and very expensively lost. EPPA works closely with you to ensure that internal strategic planning accurately foresees and takes sufficient account of changes in this sphere.