Open Innovation

The Hitachi Group is pursuing the acceleration of innovation through "co-creation" in order to realize an affluent society full of hope. We have established the "Collaborative Forest," a place for collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders, and developed NEXPERIENCE, a methodology for collaborative creation that systematizes design thinking methods, to integrate Hitachi's accumulated technological infrastructure and know-how with customer knowledge. Our goal is to improve social, environmental, and economic value, to grow together, and to create innovations.

Four processes of open innovation in the R&D group

In establishing the "Forest of Cooperative Creation," the R&D group held an outdoor workshop for 500 people, held numerous discussions on cooperative creation, and compiled an "Open Innovation Ecosystem Process. This process includes the following four phases.

Phase1：Create a social consensus, raise issues to be solved, and communicate a vision for the future.
Phase2：Generate many ideas to realize the future vision through ideathons and hackathons.
Phase3：Immediately prototype and validate generated ideas.
Phase4：Integrate various knowledge and technologies to create new value and implement it in society.

We aim to realize open innovation by rapidly rotating these four cycles and engaging in industry-academia-government collaboration in each phase.