The issues we are addressing—from clean water, to safe food, to sustainable and vibrant cities, to smarter work, to empowered communities—are not a choice between business strategy and citizenship strategy. They are both.
Chairman's Letter & Our Agenda
We believe the issues facing the world are far too urgent—and the opportunities to make meaningful progress on them too immediate—not to act now.
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Employees & Communities
The speed at which our business and the world is changing demands that IBMers' continue to evolve their problem-solving skills.
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Environment & Supply Chain Responsibility
IBM has a longstanding commitment to innovation, particularly when it comes to protecting the environment and ensuring sustainable supplier practices.
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Governance & Public Policy
The promise of a smarter planet rests on developing open, collaborative and trust-based relationships spanning global systems.
Current Report: 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report
IBM’s corporate citizenship priorities—and some of our most notable initiatives that have been shaped by the global realities in 2008—are highlighted in this report.
Reporting period: This annual corporate responsibility report, published in June 2009, covers our performance in 2008 and some notable activities during the first half of 2009. To make this information available in a regular and timely manner, starting with this edition, we will be publishing our corporate report during the second quarter of each year.
To select content for inclusion in this report, we have used the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Reporting Principles of materiality, sustainability context, stakeholder inclusiveness and completeness in developing the print and web content of this report. We provided a GRI Index within this section of our Web site.
Unless otherwise noted, the data in this report covers our global operations. Information about our business and financial performance is provided in our 2008 Annual Report.
IBM did not employ an external agency or organization to audit this report. The metrics contained herein were generated using IBM’s corporate accounting systems audited by IBM’s internal audit staff.
Report Sections
Other responsibility-related areas throughout IBM.com
IBM’s commitment to corporate citizenship and social responsibility extends company-wide. Take a look at some of our pioneering efforts, organized by corporate responsibility performance areas.
Our Agenda
Employees
- Employee Wellbeing
- Jobs at IBM
- Diversity
- Corporate Service Corps
- Social Computing Guidelines
- Our Values
- University Relations
- On Demand Community
- The Greater IBM Connection
Communities
Environment
Supply Chain Responsibility
Governance
Public Policy
Performance Data Summary
View a summary of all 2008 key performance indicators and metrics that help us define and measure progress toward organizational goals.
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2008 IBM Corporate Responsibility Report
Our key corporate citizenship priorities and initiatives, in response to today’s global realities.
Feature: IBM Corporate Service Corps in Sichuan Province
IBMer Jordan Olivero shares how his Corporate Service Corps team worked with peers in China’s Sichuan province, on ways for the region to grow smarter.