Yumiko Kajiwara, CSuO:
As the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSuO), I am responsible for promoting the practice of sustainable management. In order to clarify the issues we should focus on to achieve our Purpose, we revised our Materiality this fiscal year. As Essential Contributions, there are three areas which are “solving global environmental issues”, “developing a digital society”, and “improving people’s well-being”. Furthermore, in the Foundation for Achieving Sustainable Development that supporting our business, we are strengthening “technology”, “management foundation”, and “human capital” as the source of value creation, thereby supporting the creation of new business models and innovations.
Yoshinami Takahashi, SEVP:
I joined Fujitsu in 2021, and have been leading Fujitsu Uvance as head of the Global Solutions Business Group since this fiscal year. We are taking a cross-industry approach to resolving societal issues by rolling out global solutions and services that link different industries together. Fujitsu is promoting co-creation business with customers around the world. One such business involves joint trials with Teijin to increase the environmental value of recycled resources. In the future, we plan to roll out ESG management platforms and aim to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by building a circular economy through simulations and visualization up to Scope 3, together with recommendations that employ AI and blockchain technology.
Megumi Shimazu, SEVP:
After joining the company, I worked as a systems engineer building systems for customers. Since 2015, I have been responsible for cloud services network services, datacenter services, managed infrastructure services and service desk, and global service delivery. Since 2022, I am based in the UK and promoting Fujitsu Uvance Horizontal areas. I see security threats, geopolitical risks, business risks associated with growing global ecosystems, developing capability for growth areas and cutting-edge technology, building common understanding of corporate strategy, action and governance, and establishment of the platform that enable us data-driven management are the themes we need to work with to drive our transformation and businesses.
Akimoto Uchikawa, Teijin Limited:
I was appointed as President and CEO, Representative Director of the Board, Teijin Ltd. in 2022. Teijin began as a commercial manufacturer of rayon and has since expanded to now encompass a wide range of materials, fibers and products converting, as well as healthcare businesses. Through our sustainability initiatives, our goal is to be a Company that Supports the Society of the Future by promoting “environmental value solutions”, “safety, security and disaster mitigation solutions”, and “demographic change and increased health consciousness solutions” in our businesses. We are proceeding business innovation through high value-added applications based on multi-materials that leverage the capabilities of high-performance materials, and developing new solutions from sustainability that reduce environmental impacts through our entire supply chain to realization of regeneration. The aim of our project of trials to enhance the environmental value of recycled resources is to create a circular economy starting from the material industry and to encourage the widespread uptake of reliable recyclable materials. In future, we will further expand the scope of these trials.
Shihoko Aoki, Wholeness Lab:
My specialty is environmental studies and I have worked in regional local government and in NPOs. I’m currently supporting and conducting research into topics ranging from the quantification of environmental impacts (LCA*1) through to new business opportunities for companies. I think there are three essential elements of sustainability that we need to be aware of, understand and demonstrate: (1) active and passive approaches that use LCA-based measurement; (2) Pursuit of not only "efficiency" and "dematerialization" but also "sufficiency”*2; and (3) each individual’s personal environment (or Umwelt) *3. Sustainability encompasses not only the environment, but also communities and human rights, and the trend towards including these as evaluation criteria is likely to increase in future. Based on this, and also from the perspective of DE&I, the key is to take a multi-layered approach to the environment. As a company, we respect the views of our various employees. So, by leveraging the ways in which our employees experience the world, we may be able to take the lead in innovation creation.
