About the Program
The Corporate Service Corps was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. The program empowers IBM employees as global citizens by sending groups of 10 - 15 individuals from different countries with a range of skills to an emerging market for four week community-based assignments. During the assignment, participants perform community-driven economic development projects working at the intersection of business, technology, and society.
This program increases IBM's understanding and appreciation of growth markets while creating global leaders who are culturally aware and possess advanced teaching skills. The Corporate Service Corps offers a triple benefit: leadership development for the IBMers, leadership training and development for the communities, and greater knowledge and enhanced reputation in the growth markets for IBM.
Since its launch in 2008, the Corporate Service Corps program has sent over 1,400 participants on over 120 teams to more than 20 countries around the world. The participants come from over 50 countries and have served communities in Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. The program continues to expand to new locations each year.
Where We Are
Since its launch in 2008, the Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program has contributed over 1,200 participants on over 100 teams to more than 20 countries around the world. The participants are from over 50 countries and have served communities in Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. The program continues to expand to new locations each year.
IBM's Corporate Service Corps: A New Model for Global Leadership Development
The CSC and its offshoot, the Executive Service Corps, have produced rich dividends for IBM, its employees and the communities in which it does business. Read more about the program, its successes and its future.
Icons of Progress
Corporate Service Corps sends its 1,000th participant on the 100th team and is recongnized as an IBM "Centennial Icon of Progress"
Press
- How To Win Friends and Train Leaders in Global Markets? Just Follow IBM - Forbes
Many of the dimensions of this incredible job – transition to service orientation and renewal of company culture, initiated by Lou Gerstner and advanced by just-retired CEO Sam Palmisano – have been well chewed over. But one subtle and no less important part of Palmisano’s legacy has yet to play out. This is the renewal in leadership development itself at IBM, specifically via the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC).
- The Job Corps Movement
An increasing number of large U.S.-based corporations—such as IBM, Dow Corning, and PepsiCo—are sending employees overseas on pro bono consulting assignments that use their professional talent. It’s an idea with appeal, as these short-term volunteer projects are becoming integral to many corporate responsibility strategies. Increasingly, these projects are becoming a key component of companies’ business strategies as well.
- IBM Increases Focus on Africa
IBM says it will double down on its investment in Africa, including sending twice as many up-and-coming IBM leaders to Africa via the company’s Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.