Fujitsu 2000 Annual Report Download - page 5

equity (ROE) as a key indicator of management
performance. Although the 3.5% ROE we recorded in
fiscal 1999 was an improvement over the previous year,
it remains too low. By rigorously focusing our
resources, we will devote maximum effort to achieving
our goal of 10% ROE in the 2000 fiscal year.
䢇Striving for even greater growth
For some time, we have used the slogans “What
Mankind Can Dream, Technology Can Achieve” and
“Reliability and Creativity” to express Fujitsu's efforts to
give shape to the innovative ideas that flow from our
R&D activities and actively promote business
transformation. In June 1999, to enable us to better keep
pace with the IT market, we replaced our four former
operating divisions with a new organizational struture
that vests detailed management authority in newly
created business units. At the same time, we established
a new management council with responsibility for
planning the Group's overall business strategy.
Finally, we would like to emphasize that protecting the
natural environment is also an important management
priority at Fujitsu, and our efforts include making
products that are environmentally friendly and providing
environmental management services.
Through the kind of efforts and activities described
above, as well as in the pages that follow, Fujitsu is
working to continuously reinvent itself. Our goal is to
be recognized as a company that anticipates the changes
of the 21st century and is trusted by customers around
the world. In this endeavor we will do our best to earn
the continued support of our shareholders.
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Tadashi Sekizawa
Chairman
Naoyuki Akikusa
President and CEO