To achieve sustainable growth without sacrificing people’s QoL, Hitachi has been picking up the pace of its various initiatives using design and engineering to reform social infrastructure. This issue focuses on digital engineering for sustainable societies, presenting examples of co-creation to generate new value and describing Hitachi’s distinctive co-creation processes and digital technologies.

Amid an increasingly complex environment facing societies and companies and a diverse range of challenges, Hitachi is pursuing its Social Innovation Business based on incorporating cutting-edge technologies. Toshiaki Tokunaga, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd., talks about Lumada business expansion and Hitachi's digital strategy.

The term DX has been popular the past few years. Keita Nishiyama, Visiting Professor of U-Tokyo IFI and Senior Executive Fellow of IGPI, says that, through the best use of digital technology, DX is inextricably changing the existing organizational principles of companies and societies. Why do digital technologies change organizational principles?

Hitachi's Mid-term Management Plan 2024 describes a growth strategy driven by digital business. To achieve this and accelerate groupwide digital business activities, Hitachi Digital LLC is pursuing a global digital strategy. Hitachi Digital CEO, Jun Taniguchi, talks about the aim and role of the company and its partnership with GlobalLogic.

Since GlobalLogic joined the Hitachi Group in July 2021, Hitachi and GlobalLogic have been steadily integrating their strengths and working on DX for both customers and Hitachi itself. Why is digital engineering so important for promoting DX? In this article, key people at Hitachi speak with Rohitash Singh, Senior Vice President of GlobalLogic.

GlobalLogic Japan investigates and implements team structures and processes to accelerate digital businesses and DX of customers in Japan. This article describes how the company combines GlobalLogic's knowledge and methodologies with Hitachi's business track record, and the business understanding and experience of LIHT's DX specialists.