Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) Assessment

Corporate Users

April 2015

Introduction
The Sustainable Business and Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) service provides an annual, confidential qualitative Diagnostic and Assessment to benchmark Member-Clients against their peers and recommend areas for improvement. This Assessment Report details benchmarks and performance in five component areas, which are rolled up to a weighted SBER Index (Figure 1). The component and index scores are updated with information sourced from participating Member companies on an ongoing basis.
This report details best practices for the Corporate Users, comparing PG&E with similar businesses within the SBER. The members of this cohort have been evaluated in five components—Vision and Governance, Strategy, Guidance, Implementation, and Reporting Results—over the past two calendar years. Each component constitutes a weighted portion of the SBER Index score (Figure 2).
Members are qualitatively benchmarked by their quartile of performance in each of the five component areas (Figure 3), based on the methodology described in the Appendix. Each SBER Component Rating compares the company against the averages for all Member companies for the current calendar year. The relevant Assessment and Diagnostic questions in each component are detailed below each component score graph. The scoring methodology and a list of participating companies are detailed in the Appendix.
Based on an initial assessment, PG&E’s current SBER Index is 76%, placing it into the Leader category. This is a 6% decrease over its score of 82% in 2013. Cohort index scores range from 16% to 89%, with a mean score of 56%.
PG&E’s strongest component area was Vision & Governance, where it topped the Leader level with a score of 84%, well above the cohort average of 57%. It also