Approach to Material Issues

Innovating for a
Brighter Society

While engaging in co-creation with our customers and partners with a focus on the major changes digital technology is bringing to industry and society, we create greater affluence and comfort by turning technology into innovation to address social challenges and create social value.

Background and Approach

In recent years, a number of environmental and social issues that threaten a sustainable society have grown more serious. This requires that not only countries and governments, but also all people and organizations including companies and communities work together to take action toward solutions to these issues.

Digital technologies such as AI and IoT are in the spotlight as integral to these solutions. The advancement of digital technologies represents an important key in resolving social issues considered to be impossible before. They are expected to play a vital role in this regard.

The SCSK Group has supported management foundations and the digitalization of Japanese companies using systems representing a culmination of its technologies and know-how developed over many years in various fields. To address these increasingly complex social issues, we need to join forces with clients and partners from different industries to harness one another’s strengths while utilizing digital technologies. This will become a major driving force behind the transformation of society and lead to more sustainable growth of society as a whole.

The SCSK Group will provide innovative businesses and services by further reinforcing its initiatives in technical innovation and DX promotion, aimed at balancing sustainable business growth and solutions to social issues. By expanding areas of co-creation with clients and society and working to find solutions to social issues, we will create a comfortable and vibrant future society.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• AI utilization
• Commercialization of DX
  ( Support customers’ transformation
  of business model and business process)
• Realization of more comfortable mobility

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Building Trust
for a Safe
and Secure Society

Our resilient and reliable business platforms connect customers and partners across industries and support increased safety and security for all by allowing companies to improve the quality of their business activities and people to have better everyday experiences.

Background and Approach

With modern society transitioning to a digital society, IT has come to occupy an important position as a platform essential to the creation of new services and businesses for clients. As many activities become digitalized and data linkages accelerate, IT will become a huge social infrastructure connecting industries together, and the stable operation of IT will be vital to a safe and secure society.

At the same time, social infrastructure using multiple platforms will increase system complexity and accumulate vast amounts of highly confidential data including personal information. For this reason, sophisticated information security is also needed.

The SCSK Group has supported the development and operation of business platforms that connect a multitude of industries and clients. It is our role as IT professionals to provide IT as a form of social infrastructure securely and safely. In this regard, we maintain untold responsibility and social significance. The SCSK Group will support a safe and secure society by increasing the quality of daily living and corporate activities through the provision of resilient and trustworthy business platforms together with clients.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• Secure and stable operation of social infrastructure
• Cybersecurity
• Platform services (for specified industries, processes, etc.)
• Financial irregularity detection system

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Creating an
Inclusive Society

Our business is global and contributes to growth and development in many countries and regions. We use our understanding of technology and its impacts to help build more inclusive societies that offer more opportunities to more people.

Background and Approach

The SCSK Group is actively expanding its business and offices globally while also using nearshoring. This is one measure for expanding the SCSK Group’s businesses and resources, but at the same time, it also greatly contributes to the development of local communities.

By expanding our offices, we are providing employment opportunities in local communities and fostering excellent IT talent. In addition, sustained close cooperation with local partners, including ways of improving quality and promoting work style reforms, and other know-how, revitalizes the IT industry that contributes to corporate activities, improves the productivity and convenience of local communities and develops local economies.

In addition, we will contribute to a society where everyone shines by supporting working styles and lifestyles more in tune with individuals’needs, improving work-life balance and enhancing quality of life through businesses and services that help to resolve various issues in the way we work and live.

The SCSK Group is committed to contributing to the growth and development of each community through its business expansion that goes beyond regional and national boundaries and to creating a better society where each person can play an active role while making the most use of their diverse qualities through provision of services relevant to people’s work and lifestyles.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• ICT solutions enabling work-style reforms
• Global business support
• Near shore development base deployment (revitalization and HR development in regional areas）

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Global
Environmental
Contributions

We are addressing the impacts climate change is having on our business while helping create a better global environment by integrating environmental considerations into our business activities and creating and expanding environmentally sustainable business opportunities.

Background and Approach

In recent years, the review of social and economic systems is underway around the world driven by the growing seriousness of various environmental issues. Starting with the Paris Agreement in 2015, there has been a growing social movement to mitigate environmental impacts, which has included governments tightening environmental regulations, making commitments to carbon neutrality by 2050, expanding ESG investment, and rising awareness of the environment among stakeholders. The impacts of these developments are now spreading to corporate activities. Abnormal weather and wind and flood damage have untold impacts on social life and business activities. As a result, efforts to carbon-free societies for mitigating climate change risks and initiatives from the standpoint of containing business continuity risk are accelerating.

The SCSK Group actively supports responses to these social changes through its IT services. Our support for business transformation and greater operating efficiencies utilizing AI, IoT and cloud-based services not only helps to reduce clients’environmental impacts from the more efficient use of energy, but it also contributes to clients’business continuity during disasters by providing robust data centers and BCP solutions.

By working to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate environmental impacts, while collaborating with clients and partner companies from a broad range of industries, we will implement business activities adaptable to climate change and considerate of the environment as well as contribute to a better global environment through the creation and expansion of business opportunities.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• Implementation of environmental action plan
• Environmental impact reduction initiatives
• Development of environmental impact reduction solutions
• Utilization of renewable energy

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Diverse Team of
Professionals

We are a team of professionals with diverse expertise and experience and a shared set of values. Since we embrace diversity as a source of creativity, we strive to create workplaces and opportunities to engage our team and keep them growing professionally and as individuals.

Background and Approach

With the full-fledged advent of a digital society, companies now must address the complex and diversified needs of society using sophisticated business activities incorporating the latest digital technologies. IT services companies such as SCSK play an important role in the utilization of sophisticated IT and the promotion of digitalization. To address such varied needs, we must foster and secure talent with a broad range of experience and knowledge, beyond conventional IT technologies.

The SCSK Group is implementing a number of measures to increase morale and fully draw out the motivation and skills of employees. We believe that increasing opportunities and venues for interacting with different ideas, technologies and know-how, while having each employee embrace diverse values and personalities through the fostering of professional talent, promotion of diversity, and introduction of the second job program (Smart Work Plus) will lead to new value creation in the form of innovative businesses and services. Going forward, we will provide opportunities and workplaces that enable continual growth and involvement, while utilizing our diversity and expertise, so that our team of professionals can actively tackle the challenges of new value creation.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• Support for ongoing employee skill development and realization of diverse career paths
• Establishment of environments conducive to contributions by diverse human resources

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Sustainable
Value Chain

We minimize any negative impacts associated with our value chain. In addition to service quality, we also work with partners to advance environmental and social goals such as sustainability, diversity, human rights and innovation to support our customers' sustainable growth.

Background and Approach

Companies provide their customers with various products and services. The ability to deliver consistent and high-quality services to customers requires close collaboration with various partner companies in the value chain of business activities.

SCSK has worked with its partner companies to achieve high quality and productivity, carrying out initiatives jointly for utilizing SCSK’s development standard (SE⁺) in systems development, maintenance and operation. We are also focusing on enhancing the work-life balance of partner company employees, including actively working toward greater operational efficiencies as working style reforms, in addition to activities for consistent quality, such as mutual evaluation of each project.

Furthermore, demand for a responsible supply chain is rising from the perspectives of sustainability in recent years. To deal with this, we share the Supply Chain Sustainability Policy with partners and ask their understanding and acceptance in implementing these initiatives.

Going forward, SCSK will continue to support the sustainable growth of clients by providing high-quality, safe and secure services using a value chain that is conscious not only of quality, but also the environment and society.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• Quality and productivity improvements through coordination with partner companies
• Improvements in project and development process quality
• Dissemination and exercise of sustainability policies

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Transparent
Governance

We conduct effective management oversight while ensuring transparency and compliance, and have established and maintain management frameworks for sound information and risk management.

Background and Approach

Embracing its focus on corporate social responsibility, the SCSK Group implements sustainability management with an eye to shareholders and other stakeholders.

From this perspective, the SCSK Group considers raising the efficiency and soundness of management as well as ensuring transparency in the decision–making process as the most basic components of its corporate governance. Rating these matters high among management priorities, we aim to build an optimal management structure that benefits SCSK the most.

We implement each of the principles set forth in the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Corporate Governance Code and provide detailed disclosures within our Corporate Governance Report based on each principle.

Concrete Initiative Examples

• Compliance and respect for human rights
• Appropriate information and risk management
• Reinforcement of corporate governance systems needed for sustainable growth

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