Our value creation story
Toward New “Creativity” and “Research and Development”
The biggest goal of value creation at JEOL is to contribute to scientific progress and societal development, starting from the founding principles of “Creativity” and “Research and Development”. Now, 73 years after our founding, we continue to maintain that founding spirit and put every effort into improving corporate value every day that provides optimal solutions to support our customers’ innovations.
In recent years, science and technology have progressed rapidly, and the roles required of companies are becoming increasingly diverse. We have two strategies that provide a firm base as we take up the challenge of value creation, even as society changes.
In this section, we provide information on our Evolving in the 70th Year vision and our YOKOGUSHI (cross-sectional collaboration) strategy.
Growth Vision Evolving in the 70th Year
In 2019, the year we celebrated our 70th anniversary, we announced “Evolving in the 70th Year” as our new growth vision. The main initiatives are improving our core technologies, proactively entering growth markets, and providing total solutions.
The illustration below shows business creation by proactively entering growth markets.
This illustration expresses our approach toward markets expected to grow based on our strengths by starting with the core technologies—built up in the scientific and metrology instruments segment, including electron microscopes and nuclear magnetic resonance systems—and spiraling out from there.
In the new medium-term management plan “Evolving Growth Plan”, we will promote “Evolving in the 70th year” further as well as improve corporate value more by improving customer satisfaction through improvement of research and development capabilities, manufacturing capability, and service capability.
In this way, JEOL will continue to move into a new business domain.
Model of Behavior YOKOGUSHI
The YOKOGUSHI strategy is our unique model of behavior for providing solutions in cutting-edge technological fields.
To create products and services that do not currently exist requires new ideas and connections that go beyond conventional boundaries –not just existing methods.
As a leading manufacturer of scientific and metrology instruments, we have provided equipment in a range of fields to meet complex market needs. Because of that, we possess a broad product lineup that you will not find anywhere else. Combining each of these products across categories in an organic way allows us to develop next-generation solutions and applications no one has ever seen before.
The model of behavior for creating these innovations is set out in our YOKOGUHSI strategy.
Having collaborated up to now with companies, organizations, and research institutes (both public and private), we have established a foundation for open innovation. YOKOGUSHI produces strong cross-sectional ties not just within our Company but with outside parties, making it possible to create new value not previously possessed by either party. We already have a rack record in several product fields that includes favorable reception by the market for the unique systems we have developed in collaboration with other companies.
Through YOKOGUSHI, we will promote innovations that lead to the future so that we create solutions that completely satisfy our customers.