FY 2021 Q3 Financial Results
Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2021
Kaizen Platform Inc. Securities Code 4170
November 12, 2021
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Contents
- Company and Service Overview
- FY 2021 Q3 Business Results
- Revision of Full-year Earnings Forecasts and Mid to Long-Term Management Policies
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Company Overview
Company ： Kaizen Platform Inc.
Incorporation Date ： April 2017（US Entity KAIZEN platform Inc. created on March 2013 *)Addrress ： Minato-ku, Tokyo
Employees ： 115 （As of September 2021）
Kaizen Platform Inc. and Kaizen Platform USA, Inc. ： 69
D-ZERO Inc.：46
Capital ： JPY 1,722,075（As of September 2021）
Board of Directors ： Kenji Sudo | CEO |
Takuya Watabe | Director |
Keita Umimoto | Director |
Masanori Sugiyama | Outside Director |
Tomohide Matsuyama | Outside Director（NTT Advertising Inc., Director） |
Kaoru Oda | Audit & Supervisory |
Shigeo Goho | Audit & Supervisory |
Eriko Hayashi | Audit & Supervisory |
Subsidiaries ： D-ZERO Inc. ／ Kaizen Platform USA,Inc. ／
DX Catalyst K.K.
- Previous company KAIZEN platform Inc. was the absorbed company and Kaizen Platform USA, Inc. became the stock company surviving an absorption-the merger. At that time, the investors of KAIZEN platform Inc. was given stock of our current company (Kaizen Platform Inc.) as part of a triangular merger. The Japanese business was transferred from Kaizen USA, Inc. to our current company Kaizen Platform Inc in July 2017.
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Founding Purpose
Gathering talent from around the world through the cloud to enable
DX for customers
and increasing productivity with our SaaS platform
Market Environment
- The retirement rate at large Corporations in Japan is 2.4%※
- Difficult to change the human resource portfolio and to train experts
-
A huge outsourcing market
already exists for IT services such as contract development
DX creates huge
outsourcing market
The Past Situation
-
Full Time Employment with regulation regarding job termination makes it difficult to dismiss employees.
The trend was to hire contract employees to maintain elasticity - Office Facetime was required along with unproductive meetings, decreasing employee productivity
Outsourcing
was not productive
in the past
Founding Goals
- Provide remote work by outsourcing through our SaaS platform to create work for our digital professionals
- Avoid one-off project matching and contract professionals across multiple complex projects simultaneously
Provide DX BPO service by combining SaaS with highly talented digitalprofessionals
- Source Nikkei「Smartwork Management」Research 2018
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Our Business Opportunity in DX
"UX leads to DX" is a new competitive strategy in the digital age,
but large companies are lagging in DX investments due to the maintenance of existing systems
and this GAP is our business opportunity
UX that leads to DX | 80% of system investments | Business Opportunity = |
are for legacy system | The gap between Business and IT | |
is the strategy of the next era | ||
maintenance | Department Needs | |
With €1 of investment in design, increase sales profit by €4, sales by €20, and export value by €5
+€4
Operating income
€1 +€20
DesignSales investment
+€5
Export Value
4x Return
※Source：British Design Council "Design Delivers for Business Report 2012"
Due to the shortage of engineers, about 80% of IT resources are devoted to maintenance of the current IT systems.
Value - Up
（New）
21.2%
Running the Business
（Maintenance/Operation)
78.8%
80% IT Budget
for maintenance
Value ・Up ：IT investment to create new added value
Run・The・BUsiness：Conservative costs for maintenance/ operation of exsisting system
The biggest problem with DX in large companies is the friction between business and IT departments.
Demand from
Business
GAP |
IT
Resources Time
Potential loss of
JPY 12 trillion
conversion doesn't progress after 2025, there is a possibility that Japan as a whole will lose JPY 12 trillion every year. ※Source：Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry「DX Report」
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