{"id":1739,"date":"2026-01-11T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-xgn.com\/?post_type=interview&p=1739"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:25:30","slug":"%e4%bc%8a%e8%97%a4-%e6%a0%84%e5%8f%b8","status":"publish","type":"interview","link":"https:\/\/k-xgn.com\/en\/interview\/%e4%bc%8a%e8%97%a4-%e6%a0%84%e5%8f%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Eiji Ito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After joining CTC, Eiji Ito has accumulated over 20 years of experience as a network engineer.
Leveraging his experience in service and business planning both internally and externally, he has been working on formulating medium-term management plans in xGN’s Next-Generation Technology Strategy Department since October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Service and Business Planning, Taking on the Challenged of Medium-Term Management Planning<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since joining CTC as a new graduate in 1998, he has experienced a variety of roles, including a career as a network engineer, seconded to a major automobile manufacturer, and service and business planning at a telecommunications carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was approached about transferring to xGN around 2023.
Just as the mission I was in charge of was over, I was approached to be involved in the formulation of the medium-term management plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been involved in service planning at various companies, but this is my first challenge to be directly involved in management policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt that I could make use of my knowledge of mobile communications and equipment, as well as my experience in shaping customers’ businesses with a co-creative mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we were able to make use of our previous experience, there were also points where we needed a new approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, large-scale system development such as telecommunications infrastructure proceeds in a waterfall manner, with the process progressing step by step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, what is required of xGN is to deliver new value beyond communication with a sense of speed while maintaining conventional communication quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, in the formulation of xGN’s medium-term management plan, we are actively incorporating methods such as agile and scrum methods to achieve more flexible and faster decision-making and value delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driving Business Reform and Value Creation with a small, Elite Organization<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

xGN, which supports KDDI’s mobile communications with a small number of elites, is a compact organization, but has a wide business scale and scope of business, and has a very high required results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to high-quality operation of telecommunications, it is also necessary to contribute to the expansion of new services and businesses using telecommunications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do this, it is essential to have a flexible mindset and review the way business processes are improved and how they work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, I am in charge of managing the secretariat of the Business Improvement and Reform Working Group, as well as gathering information at external exhibitions and conferences and developing it internally, and I am considering the most suitable business improvement measures for each of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also difficulties in incorporating new frameworks without being bound by conventional wisdom, and requiring transformation using AI and automation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, xGN is an organization that actively utilizes the fusion of KDDI and CTC’s corporate cultures, and its main feature is that it makes decisions quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While repeatedly engaging in dialogue with the field and management, I feel that we are moving forward step by step in order to create new value unique to xGN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridging the Field and Management to Drive Organization Progress<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of his more than 20-year career, he has expanded his business areas to various fields, including service and business planning, medium-term management plan formulation, and business improvement reform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The content and fields of work were different from time to time, such as creating the content of technology and creating corporate value, but I personally have always been interested in creating value and have worked on various ways of thinking, such as design thinking, in everything I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, through the challenge at xGN, I feel that I can further expand and deepen my potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there are many things that bother me every day with the pressures and various constraints of being involved in the work that contributes to the management of a company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the process of organizing the direction of the organization, drawing a path to take, and taking shape as an actual initiative while coordinating with employees and management in the field is a great joy for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the framework of providing infrastructure for telecommunications services, it presents new ways of using and possibilities for KDDI and end users.
In order to create that future, I would like to continue to move forward together with my colleagues at xGN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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