Restructuring IT
To contribute to the expansion of social innovation businesses and to the realization of digital management, we aim to build a digital management platform that will be shared throughout the Hitachi Group. Even as we expand our company scope and portfolio, this shared platform will provide information for growth and keep costs down.
To build and promote a digital management platform, we are emphasizing the allocation of IT resources and transferring authority to growth areas.
In addition, we are reviewing IT budgeting systems in order to accelerate shared offerings and standardization.
We are allocating IT resources and delegating authority to areas that are important for business growth, in support of rapid business decision-making.
(1) Satisfying IT requirements of BUs#１ and Group companies in various regions
(2) Thoroughly implementing regional security, compliance, and human resources policies
(3) Spreading the project to build a digital management platform to regions
To accelerate these three activities, we are optimizing IT governance from a global perspective. In FY 2023, we established new regional CIOs in the US and EU regions.
To achieve faster and definite implementation of policies shared across the Hitachi Group, we will reform budgeting systems so that IT budgets are managed in a consolidated manner.
By optimizing the allocation of IT budgets according to business scale and importance, we can protect against the over-expansion of and duplicate investments in business specialization areas. We will ensure a sufficient IT budget for shared areas.
On the other hand, regarding IT cost efficiency, we will ensure transparency by continually comparing against past results and benchmarks at other companies.
As part of the process of standardizing and modernizing systems, we will also actively adopt the latest IT to achieve more advanced and efficient services.
In addition, we will also work to build a foundation for executing future reforms in the area of “IT as a management tool”, such as improving the visibility of environmental indicators by constructing a digital management platform, and improving managerial speed by providing information in real time.
