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Japan's Productivity: The Reality of Decline Despite DX Progress
A detailed analysis of Japan's productivity in 2023. Despite advancements in Digital Transformation (DX), Japan's productivity continues to decline. This article examines the current situation with data and proposes specific improvement approaches. It offers insights from various perspectives including economic growth, labor productivity, technological innovation, and organizational transformation.
Read Article »The Difference in Cost Perception Between Manufacturing Products and IT Investments
This article points out that while many companies are sensitive to manufacturing costs, they often lack cost management for IT investments, and emphasizes the importance of properly managing IT investments as "costs." It also proposes specific measures for efficient operation of IT investments and strengthening company-wide IT strategy and governance.
Read Article »Rules and Tools Alone Cannot Prevent It! IT Development and Operations Misconduct and Concealment Becoming 'Implicit Specifications'
This article focuses on misconduct and concealment issues lurking in IT industry system development and data management, examining measures for restoring social trust and building robust systems. It analyzes the background of various problems including test data fabrication, security incident concealment, and inappropriate AI use, pointing to excessive deadline-first culture, multi-tier subcontracting structures, and neglect of technical debt as fundamental causes. The article explains the mechanism by which misconduct and compromise become embedded in daily development processes, emphasizing the importance of engineering ethics and the need for cultural transformation with "psychological safety."
Read Article »Creating New Value with IT DIY (Citizen Development): Agile Business Improvement Enabled by AI and Low-Code
This article explains the accelerating trend of 'IT DIY (Citizen Development)' driven by cloud services, no-code/low-code tools, and generative AI evolution. With natural language instructions now generating code, even non-IT departments can achieve advanced automation and system building. We detail the value gained from 'agility' and 'deep business process understanding' when those who know field challenges best take action, unlike traditional outsourced development. We explain methods to overcome time and cost barriers, and propose co-creation toward new value creation including ePrize's architecture design and AI utilization support.
Read Article »Towards Meaningful Implementation of PoC (Proof of Concept)
This article explains the importance and meaningful operational methods of PoC (Proof of Concept), which is widely used as an evaluation method for IT products and services. It emphasizes the importance of clarifying the purpose and goals of PoC, establishing evaluation metrics and judgment criteria, and provides specific advice to avoid failures. It also details points to ensure that PoC doesn't end up as a mere formality and effective verification methods.
Read Article »IT Strategy Trap: The Tragedy of 'Buying Things' Mentality in System Implementation and the Truth of 'Wrong Evaluation' Afflicting Companies
A thorough examination of IT investment risks for companies, including raw field realities. The 'buying completed things' mentality for system implementation that even major global enterprises fall into. Why do complaints of 'unusable' and 'too expensive' erupt post-implementation? We sharply address the fatal confusion between 'sufficient evaluation' and 'evaluation from the right perspective,' exposing structural risks like sunk cost traps and absence of effectiveness measurement, while presenting the importance of 'IT second opinions' for generating true business value.
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