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CR Report: Message From Mike Laphen

At CSC, we recognize that corporate responsibility (CR) is critical to our global business success. By implementing sustainable practices, we seek to ensure the vitality of the communities in which we live and do business, the morale and effectiveness of our global team, the health of our environment and the productivity and collaborative strength of our client relationships.

Today’s client organizations want to ensure that CSC, as a leading IT services provider, is also an engaged corporate citizen: transparent in our activities, responsible as a consumer and custodian of the world’s resources, and active in the communities where we work. It is similarly important to them, as it is to us, that we hold our own suppliers to the highest standards, ensuring respect for human rights in the manufacturing process and sound decisions about consumption and recycling.

In these and many other ways, we can see how business and CR objectives coincide, and how responsible and sustainable corporate behavior helps drive CSC’s overall success.

Because we have come to recognize the power of this connection, we place great importance on bringing value to all of our stakeholder relationships. We strive to do this by devoting resources to community development, supporting our EMPLOYEES employees in over 70 countries worldwide with learning and career opportunities, and building trust with and delivering results for our 2,500 clients across the commercial and public sectors.

This year, we made great strides on the path to sustainability and CR leadership including:

Recognitions

  • Business in the Community Awards. We were recognized with a Silver performance band for CR accomplishments by Business in the Community (BITC), an international network of businesses committed to a sustainable future.
  • FTSE4Good Index Series. We were recognized for a second consecutive year by the FTSE4Good Index Series, which honors companies for their CR standards.
  • FORTUNE Magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies.” CSC again ranked in the Top 5 among the world’s leading IT service providers in FORTUNE magazine’s list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.”

Milestones

  • We completed a global submission to the Carbon Disclosure Project.
  • We appointed our first Chief Diversity Officer, Jose Jimenez.
  • We expanded our Employee Resource Groups, global and regional forums in which employees convene to advance best practices, share ideas and form mentoring relationships.
  • We opened new lines of communication with our clients through a CR-to-CR dialogue.
  • We expanded CSC Gives Back, our local community philanthropy program.

While we are not yet where we intend to be, we are encouraged by our progress and by the support we have received from our clients and employees on this journey. In this report, we highlight some of our important CR achievements during 2010 – 2011.

As our industry undergoes a major transformation — from traditional to as-a-service solutions — advances in how we serve our stakeholders will hold the key to a stronger, more agile and more profitable CSC. As a result, CR activities promise to be more crucial than ever in enabling us to capture new opportunities and achieve growth. And when joined with similar efforts by other organizations, all of our CR initiatives will help contribute, in small but important ways, to a brighter future for our world.

Let this, our third corporate responsibility report, serve as another indication of CSC’s commitment to that shared future.

Regards,

Laphen Signature

Mike Laphen
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
CSC