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Takaaki Shimizu CMO In charge of SI and Services Operations Unit
As NEC works toward its goal of becoming the leading company in the Social Solutions business, all employees
will act with one question in mind: “What can I do to achieve that goal?”
While many avenues must be pursued, including quality, cost, technical capabilities, new business
development, and customer satisfaction (CS), all of it, in the end, comes down to uncovering what makes NEC
unique. Our efforts will be driven by a determination to undertake the creation of new business with an eye on the
next 100 years.
Shinichi Shoji In charge of System Platform Business Unit
The฀System฀Platform฀Business฀Unit฀will฀continue฀to฀provide฀strong฀ICT฀assets฀as฀a฀foundational฀business฀
supporting those sales and system engineers and business units promoting the Social Solutions business. Strong
ICT assets are made possible through global cost competitiveness and superior quality, and through high added-
value functionality only NEC can provide. By focusing on the evolution of each of these components, and further,
incorporating them into solution-based platforms, we will continue to pioneer a new age.
Takemitsu Kunio In charge of Smart Energy Business Unit
The “Mid-term Management Plan 2015” represents NEC’s aspirations to build a foundation for continued growth
over the next 100 years. Through an organic combination of two areas in which NEC specializes—ICT and
energy—the smart energy domain represents a new field for business growth that can be extended not only
domestically, but globally as well. The goal is not just to provide hardware and software products, but to create
business฀domains฀that฀also฀encompass฀related฀high-level฀services.฀Utilizing฀internal฀and฀external฀partnerships,฀we฀
will work to achieve business growth.
Katsumi Emura In charge of Central Research Laboratories
NEC’s Central Research Laboratories will continue to create powerful new technologies capable of supporting
growth at NEC over the next 100 years. By creating unparalleled new technology in the fields of Big Data analysis,
SDN, security, real-world data processing and smart energy, we will contribute to providing social infrastructure
solutions and addressing the business issues of NEC’s customers. And by promoting a new approach to R&D,
one in which we work closely on-site with our customers to resolve their issues openly, we will build a foundation
for new business creation and global expansion.
Isamu Kawashima CFO
NEC formulated its “Mid-term Management Plan 2015” having overcome the significant and painful loss of the
previous fiscal year. Building the stable financial foundation needed to support this plan means enhancing owner’s
equity through earnings growth and reducing interest-bearing debt through increased cash flow.
A growth strategy based on a stable financial foundation cannot be achieved without balancing these two.
Rather than focusing on what has come before, by relishing the challenge of developing new activities, we will
pave the way to future growth.
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