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Correctly grasp the trend, "2009 vision of IT growth," draw a

(CIO Magazine 2009 January issue)

Special Technology Update

Subprime loan problems, Lehman Shock, relief of the Big Three auto ─ ─ 2008 financial year the economic crisis from the United States began Monday, has spread to countries including Japan in a matter of seconds. Look RARENA avoid the serious recession years of 2009 when, CIO or should I go to meet management requests and how to reduce costs and contribute to the project. In this article, CIO Utiyama Satoshi of Japan has been for many years to send a shout out to two of the Matsushita Yoshio, the inevitable upheaval in 2009 as CIO and you should have nailed a keyword or topic.

R-T CEO Utiyama Satoshi ● Eye / text by Satoshi Uchiyama Principal Analyst

Important trends include IT strategy

T i R (ITR), the journal has been in CIO Magazine and the annual community survey results of IT investments (see story on page 14), ITR projects and will be available at the hearing requested by customers and taking into account the content, the annual 10 of the IT strategy is the selection of keywords. Among the keywords below, we consider adequate for what appears to be a high priority for the company, since 2009, aimed at incorporating IT strategy.

Pandemic measures [1]

Pandemic (pandemic) and refers to the pandemic, infectious disease and infection in the world. Not in some areas and communities, EPIDEMIKKU in a global epidemic (epidemic) is distinguished. If a pandemic occurs, "human"立CHI行KANAKU economic activity and by the lack of any scene, it will be a big hit business. And are concerned about avian flu, about a possible PANDEMIKKU BCP (Business Continuity Plan) to establish the company in 2009, is expected to increase.

In the IT sector, with the prospect of an avian flu pandemic, IT should consider a plan to keep the system recovery. When the recovery plan, not just paint a scenario of an alternative system to ensure personnel and the employees were ordered to work at home or when isolated, IT should be taking steps to provide infrastructure there.

[2] Environmental Information Management

Environmental and CSR (corporate social responsibility) and the aggregate analysis of collected data to create a published report, environmental legislation and ISO 14001, ISO 9001 in response to demand and document management requirements environmental information management systems to support information management in the spotlight. CSR is the environment and important, and environmental reports of companies in CSR has been growing demand to create a report, a dedicated system that can collect and manage information more efficiently / Applications The first is the need.

2009, while the importance of environmental awareness, increased reporting requirements by government to strengthen regulations as to be expected that more companies to adopt environmental management systems. In addition to large companies, to expand the use of SMEs, in addition to packaged applications, SaaS (Software as a Service) will be offered in more models.

[3 PSI (Planning販在live)]

PSI and the Product / Procurement, Sales, Inventory stands, procurement and production (not including the procurement may be), sales of the processes involved in inventory, sales, production planning, raw materials / semi-finished products procurement plan , move inventory replenishment plans, and unit item SKU (Stock Keeping Unit: SKU) refers to a business plan to support supply chain planning.

The advance of globalization, "production site" and "centralized purchasing," "multinational logistics" "multi-channel sales" and SCM (supply chain management) and operations will be unavoidable, be aware of the importance of basic planning has become. Previously, this task was done with Excel and other businesses and companies too much reliance on demand forecasting and optimization tools, "become visible" in the PSI as a basic need to review the plan.

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