We will achieve more lightweight IT assets by advancing the visualization of Hitachi Group’s IT assets, decluttering legacy IT^#1, and consolidating and integrating IT assets into the digital management platform.

While optimizing IT operation costs across the entire Hitachi Group, we will expand investments aimed at transformation and growth, contributing to the enhancement of business value.

The Hitachi Group is working to visualize IT assets across the entire group, aiming to improve operational efficiency and achieve overall optimization of IT assets. By utilizing this data, we are promoting the streamlining of IT assets through measures such as avoiding duplicate investments and modernizing legacy IT systems. The new three-year IT plan aims to further strengthen corporate governance and consolidate and integrate IT assets that are independently owned and operated by each company into the digital management platform. In addition, the corporate division will regularly monitor the IT asset holdings of each company and implement a PDCA cycle for optimization across the entire Hitachi Group.

Up until now, we have been reducing the costs associated with routine IT operations and the IT operational expenses necessary for maintenance while advancing IT investments for growth. In the new three-year IT plan, we will set the ratio of IT operating costs to sales and the ratio of investment for transformation and growth as KPIs. To achieve the target KPIs, the corporate department will regularly monitor and analyze the actual situation of each company, provide feedback, and make corrections if there are gaps with the targets. Through these activities, we will maintain IT operating costs at an appropriate level while contributing to management and business transformation and growth through IT investments, and achieve improved employee engagement.