Case
【Category】
【Keyword】
- Accompanying Support
- Agricultural and Rural Development Projects
- Agricultural DX
- Agricultural Support
- Agriculture
- AI
- Business attraction
- Communication Enhancement
- Community Revitalization
- Consulting
- Design Thinking
- DX
- DX for SMEs
- Educational institution
- English Conversation School
- Entrepreneurship Training
- Environmental Education
- Expansion of Public Enterprises
- Gamification
- Global Leadership Development
- Global School
- Health care
- Health promotion
- Help desk
- Human Resource Development
- ICT
- ICT Education
- Improving Retention Rate of Young Employees
- Industry-Academia-Government
- kintone
- Kumamoto DX Grand Design
- Language training
- Learning Transformation
- Local government and public offices
- Local Government Consulting
- Organizational Engagement Enhancement
- PMO
- Promotion
- Public-Private-Academic
- Public-Private-Academic Collaboration
- Regional Development
- Regional Revitalization
- Reskilling
- Sales Support
- Satellite Office
- Smart Agriculture
- Smart Agriculture Education
- Sports
- Sports Tourism
- Sports-Based Community Development
- Startup School
- Startup Support
- System Implementation
- Telework Human Resource Development
- Town planning
- Utilization of Closed Schools
- Zero Trust
On-Site Consultation Service for Utilizing Digital Technologies
■ Akita Prefecture
October 2021 – February 2022
We were entrusted with the “Digital Technology Utilization Consultation Tour” project aimed at promoting the introduction of digital technologies, including AI and IoT, for businesses within Akita Prefecture. Our company held lectures and consultation sessions for industry associations, bringing together members with expertise across various sectors, including private, public, and global industries. Additionally, after the consultation sessions, we organized and provided feedback based on the consultation records, helping participating businesses accumulate valuable knowledge.
【Challenges】
・ Severe labor shortage (rise in effective job openings ratio) (July) … National 1.15, Akita Prefecture 1.62 ・ Low labor productivity: Akita’s secondary industry labor productivity is 74.6% of the national average ・ Disproportionate concentration of human resources in information-related companies: No ICT department … 82.0% (FY2019 DI Office) ・ Low share of the information industry in national sales: ¥17 million per person (69.6% of the national average)
【Support Provided】
We held “Digital Technology Utilization Lectures” and “Consultation Sessions on the Introduction of Digital Technologies” at industry association meetings and various events in Akita Prefecture. ・ Coordinating the lecture locations and themes ・ Listening to the issues faced by industry associations and formulating lecture content to address them ・ Selecting and dispatching lecturers ・ Conducting the lecture and consultation sessions ・ Conducting post-event surveys and reporting
【Results/Outcomes】
We held lectures and consultation sessions for 5 organizations (including forestry and sake brewing industries). The sessions included 26 participants for the lectures and 21 participants for the consultations.
・ Importance of DX (Digital Transformation), and the consequences for companies not engaging in DX ・ Utilization of data ・ Identifying challenges related to digitization ・ Proposals for specific tools and systems ・ Formulating short, medium, and long-term plans considering the start of efforts and how to parallel current operations ・ Advice on selecting members to promote DX projects ・ Guidance on utilizing subsidies