Creating an environment for innovation

We are working to create a flat, open organizational culture where employees feel comfortable speaking up, and an environment where resources can be allocated to innovation initiatives.

To promote innovation and new business development across the entire Group, we have been implementing a Business Creation Support Program since fiscal 2019. Three in-house ventures born from this program have been selected for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Subsidy Program for Supporting New Business Creation by Human Resources of Large Companies (Support Program for Creation of New Businesses through Secondment Entrepreneurship, etc.) for the second consecutive year, starting from fiscal 2021.

Additionally, in fiscal 2022, we launched "Beyond the Border," a project utilizing the Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) system to solicit ideas and talent from outside the company. Two business proposals were selected from the 70 business proposals submitted in the second round, and the promoters of each project joined our company on March 1, 2025, and were appointed representative directors of the corporations they established in April of the same year.

A distinctive feature of this course is that, once a project has been approved for commercialization, the company hires the external proposer and promotes the project itself. This excellent initiative, which offers a new and different recruitment method from conventional methods, was highly praised and won the Excellence Award in the recruitment category at the 13th Japan HR Challenge Awards.

To create an organizational culture in which all human resources can continue to work with enthusiasm, we have been implementing a "Management Vision Achievement Program" for managers and assistant managers since fiscal 2022. The program aims to further strengthen a "goal-driven culture" that is conscious of and takes action to achieve the management vision and medium-term management plan, as well as a "flexible culture that utilizes individuality" that is psychologically safe and makes use of diversity.
In addition to this, we plan and hold various social gatherings with the aim of creating a flat, bottom-up organizational culture, as well as an open, co-creation-friendly organizational culture.
Specifically, we hold events such as "Discussion Sessions with Executives" where executives and employees can interact directly, networking events to build relationships between mid-career recruits and group companies, and even opinion exchange events with other companies.