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Executive Story: NEC's Corporate Transformation Toward an AI-Native Company — Empower Humanity: Delivering Innovation and Peace of Mind
Friday, July 10, 2026 / 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM JST
About the Session
Under the guiding principle of "Empower Humanity," NEC seeks to realize a society where everyone can fully unlock their human potential. As AI emerges as a new industrial revolution and becomes a force that operates the enterprise at its core, NEC is redesigning business processes, ways of working, and the use of time, advancing its evolution into an AI-native company.At the heart of this transformation is the recognition that AI is not merely a convenient tool, but a force that evolves the enterprise's operating model—the very "operating system" of management, or what we refer to as the Management OS. This transformation is enabled by a secure foundation that elevates enterprise data into intelligence—its collective "IQ"—and combines it with open information to generate new value.
Built on this foundation, NEC is advancing an AI Architecture that integrates the optimal combination of inference models with an ontology layer encompassing Graph, Context, Harness, and Skills, along with agents that leverage these capabilities and observability mechanisms that ensure quality and monitor usage. Complementing this is Security & AI Governance, which enables safe and trusted AI utilization through AI management aligned with ISO 42001 together with Security for AI. These are further supported by an AI-ready organizational structure and culture, with human-led decision-making positioned as the most critical element.
On this basis, NEC balances investment in people with investment in AI, including token costs, to maximize employee engagement and performance. At the same time, we deepen executive-level engagement with customers by addressing their management challenges directly, and through BluStellar, we drive business model transformation and innovation—enabling self-sustaining operational excellence and enhancing corporate value.
These initiatives are advanced through a Quick Win approach that delivers tangible results while continuously reinforcing transformation. The insights gained through NEC's own practices are then returned to customers and society under the Client Zero strategy.
Today, I would like to share with you a glimpse of this transformation in action.