Difficulty Securing Skilled Engineers and Project Managers
First written in FY2019. 6 of 9 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 34 of 109 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「Against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel. Securing personnel is essential for the software industry, which is labour-intensive.」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel and the importance of securing engineers, and identifies recruitment, investment in education, M&A and use of partner companies as measures. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel. Securing personnel is essential for the software industry, which is labour-intensive.」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel and the importance of securing engineers, and identifies investment in education, recruitment, M&A, stronger relationships with partner companies and reskilling as measures. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Regarding the shortage of IT personnel, a challenge for the labour-intensive software industry, we will continue strengthening investment in recruitment of new graduates and experienced personnel and in M&A to secure talent, reinforcing relationships with partner companies, shifting personnel to growth areas and investing more in developer reskilling and other education to respond to changes in the business environment and new technology trends.」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel as a challenge for the software industry and continues to pursue recruitment, M&A, stronger relationships with partner companies and reskilling as measures. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The software industry has a positive outlook, but the shortage of IT personnel is a concern and is said to be likely to become increasingly serious in the future.」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel, the importance of securing engineers and concerns about the situation becoming more serious in the future. - FY2024-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「Against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel, which is said to be likely to become increasingly serious in the future.」
In addition to its existing concern about the shortage of IT personnel, the company indicates that the shortage is expected to become increasingly serious, expressing more strongly the risk of difficulty securing personnel. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「Also, against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel. Securing personnel is essential for the software industry, which is labour-intensive,」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel and the importance of securing skilled engineers and project managers. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Also, against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel. Securing personnel is essential for the software industry, which is labour-intensive,」
The company reaffirms the shortage of IT personnel and the importance of securing engineers, and identifies reskilling, investment in education, recruitment and M&A as measures. - FY2023-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「Against the positive outlook for the software industry, a concern is the shortage of IT personnel. Securing personnel is essential for the software industry, which is labour-intensive,」
In addition to the difficulty of securing skilled engineers and project managers, the company explicitly identifies the shortage of IT personnel as a concern for the industry as a whole. It does not state that the actual shortage of personnel has caused losses. - FY2019First statedAnnual report
「Competition for such engineers is becoming more intense each year, and it currently takes time to train engineers with project management skills that are essential to profitability.」
The company indicates that failure to meet hiring plans and the departure of core personnel could lead to a decline in development capabilities.