A speech given by Sir David Walker at the Tomorrow's Company lecture on 'Stewardship in practice: Renewing behaviours and changing cultures in the City' - this was given on 19th May 2010 at Gresham College, London.

The Navigator is a CR map and is a resource designed by Corporate Culture. It aims to be a simple map of the CR world, a world which is constantly changing. There are various stages to the map, integration, embedding, involving and performing. It is a useful tool for CR Managers who wish to review their CR strategy.

This diagram was developed by Corporate Culture to explain how CR evolves within a business. Disparate – disparate stage a business is conducting a random mix of activities with no clear strategy or link to the business Silos – this is the phase of CR where the business is working in silos, for example the HR team may be looking at the diversity of the business, someone in facilities management maybe looking at recycling for the building, there may be someone with overall responsibility for CR activities (possible at Board level) but there is no overriding strategy Cross-cutting – this is the phase where the business starts to join up activities and cross cut their CR activity into an overriding strategy which different parts of the business talking to each other. There may be a CR steering Group, CR strategy and will probably be a person or team co-ordinating activities Fully-integrated – this is the phase where the CR activity is fully integrated into the business and decisions...