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Workbook
Ushio Group in 2030
What do you consider the “light solutions company”
Mission
that is the Ushio Group’s Vision 2030 to be?
Promote the use of light as illumination and energy to
You may define it as a global company seeking to solve many different problems
support human well-being and the societal growth
in society and on the Earth using our strengths in technology for controlling
Vision
“light”, the source of the value created by the Ushio Group.
Or does it represent yourself and your colleagues energetically working
Become a “light” solutions company
every day to make the customers in front of you smile?
Both are correct.
More importantly, we should think about what we want to be in 2030 and beyond.
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Vision 2030
What we need in order
to realize the Vision 2030
Mission
Vision
With the goal of establishing a sustainable society, people around the world are pursuing the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). Companies are increasingly expected to contribute to society from a long-term
perspective.
The Ushio Group promotes ESG management with a focus on three domains: the environment, society and
「 Each employee working for the future.
corporate governance.
Working together with
ESG management requires the setting of long-term goals related to the environment, society and governance
and checking the progress toward the goals. To this end, the Ushio Group has defined “the Five Management
Focuses” which are the important themes for the realization of the Ushio Group’s Vision 2030.
the company for society. 」
More than anything, not only our executives but also employees should proactively work on the Five
Management Focuses in their workplaces.
Five Management Focuses
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Creating businesses
Developing Our Diverse
Creating working
Sustainably reducing
Building a robust
with greater social value
Talent to Get Closer
environments where it is
environmental impact
management base
to Our Vision
easy to produce results
Our pursuit of the Five Management Focuses is supported by our Management Philosophy
which represents the universal values of the Ushio Group.
Management Philosophy
1.
Build both a prosperous Company and prosperous employees.
2.
Deliver products and services that are competitive in the global market.
3.
Contribute to society through superior products and
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innovative research and development.
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Expand profits, corporate responsibility, and competitiveness
through open and free-thinking business operations.
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How to proceed with the work
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Join us in thinking about
your future and the future
of our company
Look back on the
present from the future
(Backcasting)
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Env is ion w hat y ou ar e in 2030
What you are in 2030
Age
Imagine it.
What will your home environment be?
What job will you be doing?
(Your answers may not be limited to what you do in the
Ushio Group)
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What do you want to be while working and in your
Future
private life?
I want to be like that!
What do you want to be like?
First, imagine what you want
to be in 2030.
Process
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I'll do this during that stage.
Create a road map (scenario) and make a list of
the initiatives necessary for filling the gaps
between the future and the present,
which you learned in 2.
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I need more of this.
Look back on the present from the future
Present
Examine the ESG management poster, the concept video,
memo : the e-learning program and the integrated report before starting the task!
described in 1 above to identify gaps
between them.
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column and write your answers.
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Creating businesses with greater social value
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How will you be able to contribute to the
What is the gap between what you
Ushio Group’s pursuit of the creation of
want to be, as described in 1,
businesses with greater social value in 2030?
and what you are now?
2030
Present
While Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a strict requirement today, the Ushio Group's mission is to make
the optical technology it has cultivated as “The Light Innovation Company” solve society's future problems. In
addition to the creation of new businesses, the development of core businesses may also lead to innovation. All
employees involved in our businesses should join our customers and partners in creating new value to pursue the
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Draw a road map and make a list of initiatives necessary for filling the gap between 1 and 2.
growth of the industry as a whole, starting with society's problems.
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It is predicted that our society will look like this by 2030:
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The population of Japan has decreased by 10
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The cost of photovoltaic power generation is almost
million people in comparison with its peak in 2006,
equal to thermal power generation. A technology
making a super-aging society where one-fifth of
for artificial photosynthesis is established.
the population is aged 75 or older. 一 On the other
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The growth of AI, an increase in the number of
hand, the global population continues to increase
immigrants and the extension of people's lifespans
and it has reached 8.3 billion.
leads to the creation of many jobs.
The population continues to concentrate in urban
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Innovation catches up with measures to address
areas around the world and the urban population is
environmental issues.
60% of the global population.
The editorial staff excerpted the above predictions from
press releases and related materials.
(As of October 2022)
The ultra-smart Society 5.0 has taken shape.
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Developing Our Diverse Talent to
Get Closer to Our Vision
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What is the gap between what you
What do you want to be and what
should you be as an employee of the
Ushio Group in 2030?
want to be, as described in 1,
and what you are now?
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We will build and provide a solid human capital development program support each employee’s improvement. In
this way, the entire Ushio Group will seek to develop our diverse talent to get closer to our vision. In the pursuit of
our Vision 2030 each employee must autonomously develop their career. We will build an environment to enable
each employee to envision their own career and continue working irrespective of differences in job type, job
history and age, and we will provide all employees with places where the right people are assigned to right jobs
throughout the Ushio Group, irrespective of where they live, their nationalities and other characteristics.
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Skill set and mindset that is necessary in the workforce in 2030
Mirai Jinzai Vision（Vision for the Human Resources of the Future）* published by the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry identifies the following four abilities and attitudes that will be increasingly needed in the
future.
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Ability to create thing from scratch without being
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Motivation to solve global social problems
tied to standard ways of thinking and stereotypes
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Ability to embrace diversity and cooperate
Attitude of staying caught up on and digging
with others
into specific subjects
*Mirai Jinzai Vision（Vision for the Human Resources of the Future）, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
https://www.meti.go.jp/press/2022/05/20220531001/20220531001-1.pdf
The ability to learn strategically, psychology and leadership are among the most common skills that will be
needed in 2030. Beyond that, by 2050, the list of skills needed will also include the ability to identify problems,
predict the future accurately and innovate to create novel goods, services, methods and other things.
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Creating working environments
where it is easy to produce results
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column and write your answers.
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What do you want to be doing in 2030
to build a workplace environment that is
capable of easily achieving good results?
What kind of environment do you want to
work in to achieve good results?
What is the gap between what you
want to be, as described in 1,
and what you are now?
2030
Present
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To realize the Management Philosophy and Vision 2030, the Ushio Group seeks to become a group of highly
Draw a road map and make a list of initiatives necessary for filling the gap between 1 and 2.
engaged individuals representing the way the company and its people grow together and help each other.
We will globally build a diversity and inclusion (D&I) mindset to mutually recognize and respect the diverse
experiences, abilities and values of diverse employees, and establish working environments that enable each
employee to work energetically with robust physical and mental health.
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To work energetically: psychological safety
A concept named psychological safety was put forward by Harvard University professor Amy C. Edmondson
in 1999. The concept spread internationally when Google released the result of a study which demonstrated
that effective and productive teams have high psychological safety. The teams that were considerate for and
sympathetic to others and the teams whose members were allowed to speak straightforwardly even when their
views differed from other members’ achieved better results. If psychological safety is ensured in a workplace,
communication between workers improves both qualitatively and quantitatively and this is consequently
expected to improve worker engagement as well.
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Sustainably reducing environmental impact
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column and write your answers.
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What do you want to be doing to reduce
environmental impact in 2030?
For that purpose, what solutions do you want
to create in your company?
What is the gap between what you
want to be, as described in 1,
and what you are now?
2030
Present
We will stay committed to mitigating the impact of climate change and the environmental impact of energy,
water resources and other causes of climate change within the Ushio Group and throughout the entire supply
chain. Decarbonization is one of the most important themes. In addition to environmental issues, we believe
it is important to address social issues such as working conditions and health throughout the supply chain.
Establishing a recycling-oriented society with a reduced environmental impact that is able to coexist with nature
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may provide clues for the creation of business opportunities.
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The world's and the Ushio Group's targets for
the reduction of environmental impact
Global warming may aggravate natural disasters and expand damage to ecosystems. The countries and
regions around the world meeting at COP26* in November 2021 reached an agreement to limit the rise in
global temperature to at or below 1.5 °C to avoid a catastrophic climate crisis. This requires that global CO2
emissions be reduced 45% by 2030 compared with the 2010 figure. The Ushio Group has targeted the 45%
reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its offices versus the emissions in 2017 by 2030 and
the entire Group's achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050. Further, we have set the target of introducing
renewable energy at all of our offices in Japan by 2030, and we have also considered applying this target to
our overseas offices.
*Reviewing COP26, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, https://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/about/special/johoteikyo/cop26_01.html
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What can you do for the Ushio Group to
build a strong foundation for the
management of its business in 2030?
What do you want the company to have
in 2030, irrespective of its size?
Building a robust management base
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What is the gap between what you
want to be, as described in 1,
and what you are now?
2030
Present
Pushing forward with 1 to 4 of the Five Management Focuses requires the
Group governance
linking of the management goals of the Ushio Group to the goals of the
Group’s companies, the development, restructuring and replacement of
Standardization
of accounting
practices
Robust
management
base
the businesses of the Group’s companies in pursuit of the Group’s goals
and the development of infrastructure. Through the activities of the Global
Consolidated Management Promotion Project, we will work to ensure the
compatibility of the Ushio Group’s integrated management goals and the
operational managers’ goals and to visualize these goals.
Compliance
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Information
security
These various foundations build
a robust management base.
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We want the Ushio Group to be like this:
All over the world, all of the companies of the
The company is highly transparent about the
solutions company’ (management in solidarity).
information that is necessary for its stakeholders.
★ Ushio Group work hard to ‘become a “light” ★ management of its business and it discloses the
Employees understand the importance
Compliance awareness has spread throughout the
for maintaining it is in place.
on “the 10 Action guidelines as a Member of Society”.*
★ of information security and a system ★ corporate group and each person acts ethically based
* https://www.ushio.co.jp/jp/company/outline.html
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2030 My Mission & My Vision
My Mission and
My Vision for 2030
For 2030,
I,
Mission:
, have the following
(What I should do)
Vision :
(What I want to be)
Summarize your goals, problems, paths to achieving your goals and
anything else that you have thought about in your work to date.
Review and organize your work so far and embody what you want to be in the
Ushio Group in 2030!
WORK 01
WORK 02
WORK 03
WORK 04
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Mr. Naito, the president,
has a message for all of you.
(Excerpted from the message from top management in USHIO REPORT 2022)
It is not to back down. I am not good at some things.
prosperous employees
Sometimes I find myself caught up in a situation I’d
like to back down from. This is when I should get
In fiscal 2021, Ushio Inc. conducted its first-ever
fired up and I have responsibility to the employees
engagement survey. As a result, our engagement
to get fired up about the issue. Understanding this,
score was shown to be lower than the average
all executives will face tough situations.
in the manufacturing industry in Japan. We are
Light has infinite potential.It is said that only a few
I joined Ushio Inc. in 1986. In my work since then, I
we do what we are doing. This means that to live
going against one of the basic principles of our
percent of this potential is currently used. As we are
have been an expat in Europe and have spent a long
up to expectations, we must drastically depart from
Management Philosophy, “Build both a prosperous
“a light solutions company”, to access that untapped
time working overseas. When I was young, I often
being a manufacturer that simply offers quality and
Company and prosperous employees.” I take this
potential, I will join Ushio’s employees in pursuing
asked my bosses questions like, “Why do I need to
performance.
seriously.
the Mission and Vision with a strong determination
I made a promise to employees that I would
and without wavering. I will not back down from
not leave the result of the engagement survey
taking on the immediate issues.
do this job? ”If you have a clear objective, you can
see what you should do and act autonomously. Even
if you are stuck, all you have to do is to get back
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Build both a prosperous Company and
Our quest to ‘become a “light”
solutions company’
unaddressed. Based on two of our management
to the objective. Vague objectives and repeated
Our quest to become a “light” solutions company
focuses, “Developing Our Diverse Talent to Get Closer
changes in direction cause organizations and
involves solving social problems for the future which
to Our Vision” and “Creating Working Environments
employees to waste time. I was unconvinced in that
lies ahead of our customers. In other words, the goal
Where it is Easy to Produce Results,” I will work to
regard. Years later, I was promoted to a position
of our business and our actions must shift to our
build a working environment that enables all of
where I had subordinates. I made it a rule to clearly
Mission, “Promote the use of light as illumination
you to work energetically and demonstrate your
set objectives for everything we did and not to
and energy to support human well-being and
capabilities. Reflecting on my failure to communicate
waver from the intent to achieve the objective.
societal growth,” and our social and economic value
the executives’ wishes to employees, I will engage in
Today, more than 5,000 employees of the Ushio
must continue to be aligned with each other. To do
direct dialogue more actively. By communicating my
Group work together to push forward with reforms.
this, we must start by examining social problems
wishes from the perspective of each employee and
I t i s neces s a ry to fl ex ibly adapt t o chang e in
and shifting to a value creation flow where we
listening to the honest opinions of employees, I will
the business environment. As the top manager,
explore optical technologies in pursuit of solutions
enable each employee to identify with our Vision
however, I must not waver regarding the foundation
to these problems. Making a change like this is
and proudly tell their friends and family members
of the things that we do. The foundation consists
not easy. For this reason, “the Five Management
that they are working for a really good company. We
of our Mission and our Vision for 2030. The former
Focuses” have been defined to enable each
will create a virtuous cycle in which more employees
is, “Promote the use of light as illumination and
executive and employee to understand megatrends
experience a life of fulfillment through their work
energy to support human well-being and societal
and social issues and apply this in our strategies and
and fully demonstrate their capabilities, thereby
growth,” while the latter is to ‘become a “light”
jobs. Further, they are incorporated into our ESG
increasing our corporate value.
solutions company’. They define the reasons that
management.
Aside from not wavering, I have another motto.
Ushio Inc.
President
Chief Executive Officer
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Ushio Group 2030 Workbook Glossary
Become a “Light” Solutions Company
Social and economic value
Continuing to align social and economic value by solving
Social value is a positive impact on the environment and
social problems using our proprietary optical technology.
society. Economic value is in the interests of business and
To “Promote the use of light as illumination and energy to
corporate growth. The idea of creating shared value (CSV)
support human well-being and the societal growth,” a light
put forward by U.S. economist Michael Porter is the idea of
solutions company starts by addressing social problems, offers
creating social and economic value through businesses solving
optical solutions and comprehensively provides processes
social problems through their operations.
and services including hardware and many other product and
services in an effort to solve the problems of customers and
society.
ESG management
ESG stands for the environment, society and corporate
governance. ESG management is a style of business management
in which the company places importance on the reduction of
environmental impact, solving social problems and corporate
SDGs
Based on the principle, “leave no one behind,” the purpose of the
comprehensive set of goals is to make the world sustainable. The
on ESG management while also incorporating objective external
perspectives. The Five Management Focuses were formulated in
fiscal 2021.
Innovation
A new linchpin, a new connection, a new approach, a new
perspective and a new way of using something (or an act of
creating them). Innovation means incorporating a totally new
technology or idea into a conventional product, system, etc. to
create new value and significantly change society.
We ourselves create the future.
and guidelines for evaluating progress.
A method of drawing a blueprint for a future goal and creating
and specified and summarized as our management focuses based
Have we been able to make the future interesting using light?
SDGs consists of 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030
Five Management Focuses
in society identified through the analysis of macrotrends in media
Will light make the future interesting?
goals adopted by the United Nations in September 2015.
Back casting
management of our business, we should focus on solving problems
Have we been able to support people’s happiness and society’s growth?
The abbreviation of the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of
governance.
For us to become a “light solutions company,” a goal in the
Will we be able to ‘become a “light” solutions company’ by 2030?
a road map for achieving the goal backwards from the future to
Each employee working for the future
Working together with the company for society
the present. While forecasting starts with the present to predict
the future, back casting is considered to ben? an effective way
to address issues that require dramatic change (reform). In
Let's make the future brighter together!
recent years, back casting has been drawing attention as a way
of thinking to help achieve the SDGs and its use by business
enterprises in examining the significance of their existence has
increased.
Engagement
Engagement is the degree to which an employee finds their
relationship with the company and coworkers valuable and
is motivated to spontaneously contribute in relationships
where the company and its employees grow together.
Engaged relationships are when individuals and organizations
Diversity & Inclusion
are united and mutually contribute to each other’s growth.
Diversity and inclusion represent the importance of
to cooperate with the people around them and is proud of
incorporating diversity (people whose gender, age, physical
working for the company.
In these relationships, for example, an employee is willing
ability, nationality and other attributes are diverse belonging to
the same organization or group) and inclusion (human resources
from different backgrounds recognizing and respecting one
another and maximizing their strengths in the operation of an
organization with a sense of unity) in the establishment of an
organization.
Supply chain
A flow that starts with the procurement of raw materials and
includes manufacturing, inventory control, logistics, sale and
other steps before the consumer receives the product.
Carbon neutrality
Using the absorption of greenhouse gasses through afforestation,
forest management, etc. to effectively offset the emission of
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from a series of artificial
activities, such as the manufacturing of a product.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders are people who have a direct or indirect interest
in something. Examples of a business's stakeholders are its
shareholders, customers and employees. The definition expands
to also include business partners, suppliers, governments, local
communities and others.
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Date of publication: November 2022
Editor and publisher: ESG Promotion Headquarters, Ushio Inc.
Production cooperation: Sofia, Inc.
Contact: smb-with@ushio.co.jp