This paper distils the key discussion points from a high level roundtable discussion – Integrating and measuring sustainable business strategies: tomorrow’s balance sheet – where senior business decision makers met with experts in sustainability.

Anant Nadkarni, Vice President, Group Corporate Sustainability, Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) presented the Tata Index to the group. Together they discussed how organisations should approach integrating nonfinancial reporting and the assessment of organisational impact. Conclusions and recommendations are provided on how companies should start to respond, on the basis that sustainability issues are now a strategic imperative. (PDF 244KB)