Integrated Report 2016
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Integrated Report 2016
Through our constant pursuit of innovation, the Fujitsu Group aims to contribute to the creation of a networked society that is rewarding and secure, bringing about a prosperous future that fulfills the dreams of people throughout the world.
The Fujitsu Group has established a global service structure with operations in more than 180 countries around the world.
Fujitsu's IT services business ranks top by market share in Japan and fifth worldwide, a record that reflects our outstanding technologies and long track record in building large-scale, cutting-edge systems.
The Fujitsu Group has established a global service structure with operations in more than 180 countries around the world.
Fujitsu's IT services business ranks top by market share in Japan and fifth worldwide, a record that reflects our outstanding technologies and long track record in building large-scale, cutting-edge systems.
The digital innovation we are witnessing today is comparable in effect to the industrial revolution, having a profound influence across our daily lives, business, and society as a whole. Fujitsu is pursuing business model transformation to realize sustainable growth by capturing the opportunities available amid this dramatic change.
Rapid advances are being made in turning information and communication technology (ICT) into services across all industries throughout the world. In this process, ICT is being used to resolve challenges facing customers and to create new value. Fujitsu calls ICT-based services "connected services" and positions expansion in this area as a growth driver for the future.
Our commitment to expanding connected services lies at the heart of the Management Direction we announced in October 2015, which sets out a roadmap to becoming a globally competitive ICT company. Fujitsu is embracing business model transformation with a clear vision of where we need to be in the future, as we aim to achieve sustainable growth.
The Fujitsu Group, striving to create new value in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, is working to realign its business structure toward services and to expand global operations. This section sets out how far we have come with our business model transformation.
What is customer-centric digital innovation? What are Fujitsu's competitive advantages in creating value together with customers? Members of our frontline sales team and a system engineer providing services discuss digital innovation at work and the co-creation of value from their different perspectives.
The Fujitsu Group has been realigning its customer sales and service delivery structure under its global matrix organization, seeking to expand global business and raise profitability. In this section, we set out the aims, current status, and future expectations for the global matrix organization.
Employees are the Fujitsu Group's most important type of capital. As digital transformation progresses, the creativity and collaboration of employees are essential to create innovative services that leverage artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and other leading-edge information and communication technology (ICT) and develop new business models. We are employeecentric in designing organizations, HR strategies, and policies because employees are the source of Fujitsu's growth.
With the rapid progress of digital innovation, intellectual capital is becoming more important than ever as a factor in establishing competitive superiority among a host of different companies and realizing Human Centric Innovation. The Fujitsu Group is moving forward with the development of leading-edge technology and the creation of new businesses and services while increasing and improving intellectual capital that underpins business activities, such as knowledge and expertise.
The world's fifth-largest and Japan's largest IT services corporate group, the Fujitsu Group provides services to approximately 170,000 corporate customers. U.S. magazine FORTUNE has chosen Fujitsu as one of the "world's most admired companies" for four consecutive years. Our extensive customer base and solid reputation are attributable to the relationships of trust with diverse stakeholders that outstanding technological capabilities have enabled us to build. We view this trust as social and relationship capital. Furthermore, we are strengthening this trust through the construction of digital ecosystems and open innovation that links us with stakeholders.
The use of cloud systems and the spread of the IoT are likely to cause a tremendous surge in the types and volume of data exchanged through networks. Processing this data calls for the establishment of physical facilities with capabilities befitting a new era. Therefore, the Fujitsu Group is operating approximately 120 datacenters worldwide, expanding and improving Global Delivery Centers (GDCs), and continuing to invest in infrastructure that is its manufacturing capital as an ICT company.
The Fujitsu Group contributes to curbing the effect of society's use of fossil fuels and mineral resources on natural capital and to developing sustainably. Every three years we prepare and implement an environmental action plan aimed at reducing the environmental impacts resulting from our business activities. In April 2016, we launched the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VIII). Under this plan, we are contributing to the sustainability of customers and society by providing ICT services and energy-saving products. Also, we are reducing greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain with the realization of zero emissions as a long-term goal.
To realize our vision of the company that Fujitsu needs to be in 30 years' time, we aim to fully transform ourselves between now and 2020, as well as to achieve sustainable growth and raise medium- to long-term corporate value.
The Company regards corporate governance as a critical mechanism to fulfill the senior management team's mission in a manner befitting shareholders' trust. This mission is based on the FUJITSU Way and enables a form of business management that, rather than pursuing short-term profits, justifies the trust of customers and business partners, motivates employees to work with vitality and pride, and contributes to society. Through such business management, the Company will grow and enhance corporate value over the medium to long term.
Based on the philosophy set out in the Fujitsu Way, Fujitsu works tirelessly to improve its corporate governance with a view to medium- to long-term growth and corporate value enhancement. Progressive measures to strengthen corporate governance systems have resulted in the Board of Directors being comprised of at least as many nonexecutive directors as executive directors and the establishment of an Independent Officers Council, comprising external directors and external Audit & Supervisory Board members.
We invited the external directors to discuss the changes in the Board of Directors that have resulted from the improvements to our corporate governance structure.
