Overview of our initiatives to promote DX
A corporate group formed in 2021, the UNISOL Group (Maruka Furusato Corporation) strives to provide its customers with optimum value and realize its vision of “Towards a world overflowing with ‘I want to make this happen!’” To do this, we are making efforts to strengthen our existing business and create new business, utilizing synergies arising from the integration of the Group’s member companies and with the use of digital technologies as a central component. We have also been working to enhance our workplaces in order to create more pleasant working environments for our employees.
At the same time, as market conditions become more complex from year to year and our customers’ needs continuously diversify, we recognize that we must shift our business and company culture more quickly than ever before in order to retain our ability to respond to these challenges in our role as a “solution partner.” To achieve these changes with urgency, it is essential that we further promote the use of digital technologies and engage in the reform described as “digital transformation” (DX). The UNISOL Group has therefore formulated several DX promotion strategies in line with our Group philosophy and numerical targets.
The UNISOL Group has been particularly engaged in reforms that involve actors both within and beyond the Group. We have therefore shared our DX promotion strategies with all of our stakeholders and will continue to bring together each area of our business and all of our employees in the shared aim of delivering new value to our customers and wider society.
June 16, 2023
Ryohei Furusato President and Representative Director
DX: fundamental concepts and strategies
Fundamental concepts informing the UNISOL Group’s DX strategies
- Establishing DX strategies aiming toward what we aspire to be, and formulating and promoting various measures to achieve these strategies
Formulating and promoting each of our strategies with our Group philosophy in mind and based on shared principles of conduct - In the goal of achieving our Group philosophy, establishing four DX strategies aimed at achieving digital transformation: streamlining and labor-saving, human resource development, utilizing DX to strengthen existing businesses and develop new businesses, and collaboration with stakeholders
DX strategies
1Streamlining and labor-saving
- Cultivate a culture that can eliminate inefficiency and make improvements
- Contribute to the sustainable growth of the Group and society
2Human resource development
- Cultivate human resources and a culture that are resilient to change and capable of initiating change on their own through DX human resource development
3Utilizing DX to strengthen existing businesses and develop new businesses
- Contribute to the deepening of existing businesses and strengthening of synergies arising from Group integration
- Contribute to new business development and accelerated business growth
4Collaboration with stakeholders
- Establish a system that enables constant co-creation and opens up new areas of business both inside and outside the company
DX strategies in our Medium-Term Management Plan
- Positioning of DX as a key factor in achieving our Medium-Term Management Plan
- Promoting DX strategies and DX measures based on the three core strategies of our Medium-Term Management Plan
Medium-Term Management Plan
What we aspire to be, Group philosophy, numerical targets
Our three core strategies
Differentiate us from others in existing businesses
Develop new business field
Strengthen our SDGs initiatives
DX strategies
DX measures
DX measures
- We have formulated six DX measures designed to achieve each of the strategies set out in our description of the fundamental concepts informing the UNISOL Group’s DX strategies
- With human resource training and developing infrastructure and digitalization laid as the groundwork from which to trace our growth, we will promote AI utilization, smart factories, applications, and data analysis to increase our value as “solution partners”
AI utilization
- Optimization based on various demand forecasts
- Creation of an environment where AI assistants are present for all employees
Smart factories
- Development of monitoring solutions using IoT know-how
- Collaboration with vendors to automate and reduce labor
Applications
- Increased speed of problem-solving by deploying no-code development tools in the field
- Streamlining of operations and development by introducing an ERP package
Data analysis
- Utilization of a data integration platform shared with companies beyond the Group
- Support for decision-making using BI tools
- Support for new business development by utilizing our user database
Human resource training
- Knowledge and technology acquisition support for on-site personnel
- Implementation of DX literacy education for all employees in addition to existing IT literacy education
Developing infrastructure and digitalization
- Development of infrastructure across the group
- Ongoing digitalization of operations and optimization of processes, and realization of diverse work styles through the use of digital technology
For details, please see the document below.
DX promotion strategy
*The Medium-Term Management Plan targets listed in this document as indicators were those shared on March 30, 2022, when our Medium-Term Management Plan was officially announced. Targets for the fiscal year ending December 2026 (the Plan’s final fiscal year) have since been revised. For more information, please see the Notice of Revisions to Numerical Targets for the Final Fiscal Year of the Medium-Term Management Plan, published February 14, 2025.