The Asahi Kasei Group proactively promotes the utilization of digital technology as a means of leveraging its diverse intangible assets to transform business models and drive value creation. In promoting the utilization of digital technology, we formulated a digital transformation roadmap. Designating the period beginning in fiscal 2022 as the Digital Creation Period—which followed the Digital Introduction Period and the Digital Deployment Period—we are currently advancing initiatives to realize management innovation through DX by this road map. We will then transition to the Digital Normal Period, in which all employees utilize digital technology as a matter of course. The company’s initiatives to date have received a strong reception. Asahi Kasei has been selected as a DX Stock for three consecutive years—2021, 2022, and 2023—a selection that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) makes jointly with Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA). Our DX initiatives were also featured in the 2023 Monozukuri White Paper, which is produced jointly by the METI, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
