2026/04/01
Digital × Kaizen Exchange Session Held with Outside Director
On March 25, 2026, the IDEC Group held a “Digital × Kaizen Exchange Session” at its headquarters for a selected group of employees ranging from early-career professionals to managers who are actively engaged in—or highly motivated to pursue—digitalization, operational improvement, and effective system utilization.
During the session, an outside director shared insights from the perspective of “looking back from the future,” highlighting how Digital and Kaizen should be strategically combined and embedded across the organization in order to continuously create value, even amid constraints on human resources and time.
Assuming ongoing advancements in AI and digital technologies, the importance of intentionally designing and clearly distinguishing between “areas requiring human judgment” and “areas better entrusted to digital solutions” was strongly emphasized.
Employees participating in the session also presented operational challenges and improvement ideas from their respective fields, including manufacturing, supply chain, quality assurance, ICT, and global finance.
Through these discussions, shared themes and challenges emerged, prompting an exchange of views on the necessity of addressing these issues not through isolated optimizations, but by viewing them as part of the overall operational structure.
By engaging in open dialogue and candidly sharing “unresolved concerns and emerging challenges,” participants deepened mutual understanding and gained new perspectives, reframing Digital × Kaizen from a management and enterprise-wide standpoint.
Through opportunities for dialogue such as this, the IDEC Group will continue to drive business transformation by leveraging both frontline-driven Kaizen and digital technologies as dual engines. Even in a rapidly changing environment, we aim to remain a company that consistently creates social value through the continuous improvement of business processes and sustained productivity enhancement.