Assets and Operations
We will achieve an appropriate IT cost ratio, rapid service delivery, further robustness, and carbon neutrality by promoting cloud migration, standardization, and streamlining of IT assets, as well as consolidating operations.
IT Asset Optimization and Cost Efficiency
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.
Streamlining IT assets
The Hitachi Group is working to enhance visibility into IT assets across the Group with the aim of improving operational efficiency and achieving overall optimization. In FY 2025, we further deepened the visualization of IT assets and steadily advanced the avoidance of duplicate investments, the rationalization of legacy IT assets, and modernization as planned. In addition, by strengthening corporate governance, we are steadily consolidating and integrating the IT assets held by each company into the digital management platform, accelerating improvements in operational efficiency and overall optimization. The corporate division regularly monitors IT asset holdings and ensures that progress remains on plan by applying the PDCA cycle.
IT cost optimization
In FY 2025, we advanced IT investments for transformation and growth while reducing the costs associated with routine IT operations and ongoing IT operating and maintenance expenses. We have set the ratio of IT operating costs to sales and the ratio of investment for transformation and growth as key KPIs. The corporate division regularly monitors and analyzes the actual situation of each company, provides feedback, and makes 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 strategic IT investments, and achieve improved employee engagement.
#1 legacy IT: Complicated/outdated IT systems and applications built on past technologies and mechanisms
