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Creating New Value Through IoT and AI

First written in FY2017. 6 of 10 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.

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ProgressHeldSoftenedWorseRestatedFY2017 – FY2020-Q3ReframedFY20212017: 220172018: 320182019: 120192020: 120202021: 120212022: 020222023: 020232024: 020242025: 020252026: 22026
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Solving Social and Environmental Issues through DXA theme 26 companies write about · 0 as a headwind · 27 as a tailwind

The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 2 of 17 companies on the "Worse" side.

7 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".

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  1. FY2026AdvancedAnnual report

    「We will also strengthen our DX initiatives and significantly accelerate value creation through R2B+P. We will evolve our production plants by incorporating cutting-edge technologies and build the manufacturing sites of the future. We are working to strengthen our company-wide digital platform to drive operational innovation in research and development, sales, SCM and back-office functions. Through “AI×DX,” which uses the latest digital technologies, including AI, we will strengthen our competitiveness and transform our corporate culture.」

    The policy of creating value through IoT and AI is taking concrete shape through the company-wide digital platform, AI×DX, advanced production plants and the acceleration of R2B+P.
  2. 2026-05-14AdvancedEarnings

    「Through “AI×DX,” which leverages AI and other advanced digital technologies, we will strengthen competitiveness and transform our corporate culture.」

    The company has developed its existing policy of creating value through DX and AI into a strategy for transforming competitiveness and corporate culture through a company-wide digital platform and “AI×DX.”
  3. FY2021ReframedAnnual report

    「Amid an uncertain social environment, we will focus on “restoring humanity—Renaissance (SX※)” with the aim of realizing a society in which “people can live richly as human beings.”」

    The previous direction of creating new value through IoT and AI has been reframed as SX, combining the resolution of sustainability issues with DX that creates meaningful work, under the framework of restoring humanity.
  4. FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the medium-term management plan launched in 2018, we will transform our business portfolio by evolving the management system, renewed in 2017, into ESG management that “contributes to the evolution of people’s lives and the environment worldwide by providing valuable solutions globally and continues to grow as a company with a significant presence,” and by resolving social issues as a solutions provider.」

    Within the framework of the medium-term management plan, the Company continues to set out the direction of solving social issues through solutions, including creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI.
  5. FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the medium-term management plan launched in 2018, we will transform our business portfolio by evolving the management system, built on the management system renewed last year, into ESG management that “contributes to the evolution of people’s lives and the environment worldwide by providing valuable solutions globally and continues to grow as a company with a significant presence,” and by resolving social issues as a solutions provider.」

    The medium-term management plan continues to set out the direction of solving social issues through solutions, including creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI.
  6. FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the medium-term management plan launched in 2018, we will transform our business portfolio by evolving the management system, built on the management system renewed last year, into ESG management that “contributes to the evolution of people’s lives and the environment worldwide by providing valuable solutions globally and continues to grow as a company with a significant presence,” and by resolving social issues as a solutions provider.」

    The medium-term management plan continues to set out the direction of solving social issues through solutions and contributing to environmental and social progress.
  7. FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the medium-term management plan launched in 2018, we will transform our business portfolio by evolving the management system, built on the management system renewed last year, into ESG management that “contributes to the evolution of people’s lives and the environment worldwide by providing valuable solutions globally and continues to grow as a company with a significant presence,” and by resolving social issues as a solutions provider.」

    The medium-term management plan continues to set out the direction of solving social issues through solutions and contributing to environmental and social progress.
  8. FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the new medium-term management plan launched in the current consolidated fiscal year, we made major changes to our management system to accelerate our contribution to social development by helping solve the various issues facing society, including environmental protection, population growth, food shortages, and promoting health in an aging society, and by creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI.」

    The direction of the medium-term management plan has been restated as creating new value and solving social issues through IoT, AI and other technologies.
  9. FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report

    「Under the new medium-term management plan launched in the current consolidated fiscal year, we made major changes to our management system to accelerate our contribution to social development by helping solve the various issues facing society, including environmental protection, population growth, food shortages, and promoting health in an aging society, and by creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI.」

    The plan continues to identify contributing to social development by solving social issues and creating new value through IoT and AI as a direction of the medium-term management plan.
  10. FY2017First statedAnnual report

    「We made major changes to our management system to accelerate our contribution to social development by helping solve the various issues facing society, including environmental protection, population growth, food shortages, and promoting health in an aging society, and by creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI.」

    The new medium-term management plan explicitly identifies solving social issues and creating new value through technological innovation such as IoT and AI as contribution targets.
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"Stable shareholder returns targeting a 30% consolidated payout ratio" moved the same way as this thread, in the same document, in 3 of its 10 moves.

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  1. ★This thread
  2. 1Stable shareholder returns targeting a 30% consolidated payout ratio3×
  3. 2Transformation of the Business Portfolio and Shift Toward Growth Areas2×
  4. 3Global expansion of medical, pharmaceutical, and functional food ingredients2×
  5. 4Improving the conversion efficiency of heterojunction solar cells2×
  6. 5Addressing the Microplastics Problem with Polymers That Biodegrade in Seawater2×
  7. 6Expansion of functional food ingredients through the consolidation of a Spanish lactic acid bacteria company as a subsidiary2×

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