Government Chief Information Officer | Government of Japan
Tuesday, September 12th
09:00 - 10:00 | Session I: Welcoming Session | Session Speaker
Mr. Koichi Endo is the first Government CIO of Japan. He also served Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretariat for Information Technology Policy. As Government CIO, he took advantage of his long term experience in private manufacture company, Ricoh Company, Ltd. His approaches are very solid and realistic. He respects “each fact” with confident evidence and he had thousands of briefings and interviews from each ministry and agency. After he joined government, he succeeded to establish the operating cost reduction plan of whole administrative information systems with consolidation large systems. At the same time, he succeeded to secure privacy data more and raised availability. The benefit of this project is estimated 100 Billion Yen (28% of ICT budget in FY2013) and will achieve the target by FY2021 Meanwhile, he is confident that his role and responsibility is not only improve IT utilization but also change the culture from the management standpoint of private company. Hence he has been focus on transformation of services and change the business to solve societal issues, to create benefit for both citizens and companies.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Corporate Executive Vice President, CIO
2008 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Deputy President
2010 RICOH JAPAN Corporation Chairman of the Board
2012 RICOH JAPAN Corporation Advisor
2012 Government CIO
2013 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Information Technology Policy Government CIO
His watch word:
Each fact is essential for realizing the matter, 一つ一つの事実を大切に
Each mind, thought and opinion is of importance, 一人一人の心を大切に
Each of them should be treated impartially. 是々非々を大切に