Failure to Keep Pace With Technological Innovation
First written in FY2017. 5 of 12 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 9 of 32 companies on the "Worse" side.
6 other companies' latest entry also says "Worsened".
- FY2026WorsenedAnnual report
「In particular, the rapid evolution and spread of generative AI in recent years have promoted automation and efficiency improvements in system development and testing, including AI-driven development, and have brought changes to the development process itself.」
The technological innovation risk has been specified as changes in the development process resulting from the rapid evolution and spread of generative AI. The disclosure also describes responses through an AI collaboration model and an automated testing platform. - FY2025-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「In operations support, the company steadily expanded its scope of operations, including growth in cloud infrastructure development, but the rollout of new services such as Salesforce was somewhat delayed. As a result, revenue increased, but profit growth was limited to a marginal increase.」
Delays in launching new services have been identified as a factor limiting profit growth, indicating that challenges in responding to technological and service innovation are reflected in business performance. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is progressing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continue evolving them.」
The Company continues to disclose the need to respond to the rapid pace of technological innovation through hiring, training and development-environment improvements. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is progressing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continue evolving them.」
The Company continues to disclose the rapid pace of technological innovation, together with the response through hiring and training engineers and improving the development environment, as a risk. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is advancing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continuously advance them. The Group is constantly undertaking system development using new technologies and is hiring and training engineers and improving its development environments to respond to rapid changes in the operating environment. However, if significant changes in the operating environment arise from technological innovation or other factors exceeding the Group's expectations, this could affect the Group's business activities and results.」
The Company continues to disclose the rapid pace of technological innovation, together with the response through hiring, training and development-environment improvements, as a risk. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is advancing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continuously advance them. The Group is constantly undertaking system development using new technologies and is hiring and training engineers and improving its development environments to respond to rapid changes in the operating environment. However, if significant changes in the operating environment arise from technological innovation or other factors exceeding the Group's expectations, this could affect the Group's business activities and results.」
The Company continues to disclose the rapid pace of technological innovation, together with the response through hiring, training and development-environment improvements, as a risk. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is advancing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continuously advance them. The Group is constantly undertaking system development using new technologies and is hiring and training engineers and improving its development environments to respond to rapid changes in the operating environment. However, if significant changes in the operating environment arise from technological innovation or other factors exceeding the Group's expectations, this could affect the Group's business activities and results.」
The Company continues to disclose the rapid pace of technological innovation, together with the response through hiring, training and development-environment improvements, as a risk. - FY2017First statedAnnual report
「Because technological innovation is advancing rapidly in this industry, it is necessary to possess advanced expertise and development environments and to continuously advance them. The Group is constantly undertaking system development using new technologies and is hiring and training engineers and improving its development environments to respond to rapid changes in the operating environment. However, if significant changes in the operating environment arise from technological innovation or other factors exceeding the Group's expectations, this could affect the Group's business activities and results.」
The Company has identified for the first time the rapid pace of technological innovation and changes in the operating environment resulting from technological innovation exceeding expectations as risks, with hiring and training and improving the development environment as countermeasures.