1. ICT in Panasonic 2015.05.19 Le Trong An Sinh

2. About me 2010/4: Graduated from
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Vietnam)
2012/9: Got a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Ritsumeikan University
2012/10 ~ now: working for Panasonic as a software engineer
Currently doing research about
Natural Language Processing at Panasonic R&D

3. I will try my best to deliver the view of ICT in a corporation (example of Panasonic) from the corporate level to employee level

4. Agenda Panasonic nowadays Corporate governance using ICT
ICT in my one typical working day

5. Panasonic Nowadays

7. Panasonic nowadays
Not just Home Electronic Maker

9. ※CES2015
469 companies world wide with more than 270,000 employees - how does Panasonic operate!?

10. Answer: Intensive use of ICT
Tracking Employee Performance
Payment system
Answer: Intensive use of ICT
※all useful technologies are used, not just cutting-edge ones
Video conferences
Workflows for everything

11. Corporate Governance Using ICT

12. Individual (PDCA based)
Strategy Management
To communicate & enforce corporate philosophy and strategy
Corporate Meetings
Company meetings
Team meetings
Target Plan for each
Individual (PDCA based)
Corporate Strategy is broken down to the individual level

13. Strategy Communication
Corporation
Through meetings, news portals…
Company
Company …
Company
Company
Division
Division
Division …
Division
Team
Team …
Team …
At the team level: only face-2-face meetings

14. HDcom system for meetings
※HDcom: HD communication
Like the corporate version of Skype

15. Corporate Meetings Communication satellite HDcom on the global scale
Headquarter in Kadoma City,
Osaka, Japan

16. Servers, servers, and servers
Internal News
Headquarter ‘s system
Resource Management
Scheduling …
intranet
Internal news
Employee Achievements …
Each subsidiary company has its own system, but all use the headquarter ’s system to
manage working time, schedules, salary…

17. Web sites PanaNews CEO ‘s blog ※Mr . Tsuga, the CEO of Panasonic
Each company also has its own homepage and a blog for the CEO of the company

18. E-Learning
to promote awareness of new corporate rules, compliance, etc.

19. E-learning workflow Issue new rules
Most of the time, the tests are very very simple
Inform employees by
Employee takes e-Learning course
not passed
Employee takes confirmative test
Get e-certificate
passed

20. ICT In My One Typical Working Day

21. The heavy usage of email
To broadcast news
Corporate announcements, actions to be taken,…
Company announcements,…
Team leader announcements,…
To communicate individually
Daily employee-2-employee communication
Employee2-customer communication
The first action of the day should be checking
※ internal address book, external address book

22. Checking Schedule ※ the image is not of the real system
Resources like meeting rooms and projectors also have schedules

23. Case Study: Scheduling a meeting
Checking the others’
schedules
Checking schedules of
meeting rooms
Make reservation
for meeting room
Put the appointment on
members’ schedules
Announce the schedule of
the meeting by

24. Update working data ※ differences can be view visually
Software projects use Tortoise SVN to manage source code, as well as documents
Version control
Change managements

25. Version control using SVN

26. Events that may happen when I am working
E.g.: Fire happened!!!
Peer employee
General Management
PHS
The working me
HDcom system
boss
meeting

27. Corporation WIFI
Wired connection most of the time
WIFI

28. Lunch at Panasonic’s canteen
Pay using
employee
card
NFC reader

29. Enter working time into Epoch System
The next day, I have to
confirm the real working time
on Epoch system
Epoch System
Exit Time
Enter Time
Gate NFC reader
Enter the company campus
Exit the company campus
Panasonic Campus

30. Information Security Data encryption Every hard drive is encrypted
Computer Logs
Check for malicious activities
Enforce licenses
Check for the use of prohibited software (Line, Skype, etc.)
Regular Updates of Software
Enforce the usage of security patches

31. Thank you for listening!

32. References Example of e-Learning in Panasonic
Panasonic’s annual report
Panasonic & the Olympics
Tesla and Panasonic Collaborate to Develop Next-Generation Battery Cell Technology
Overview about Panasonic