The Digitalization Of Japan

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Summary

  • Digitalization goes beyond the implementation of technology; it's about driving deep change to entire business models.
  • Digitalization is critical to ensuring Japan's productivity when much of the population is out of the labor force.
  • In the West, we use online communities to find organizers and nannies, but the Japanese use these marketplaces to find elder care and funeral services.

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Japan is one of the most wired countries in the world, but cloud adoption is less than half of what it is in many other countries, and fewer than 10% of government administrative procedures in Japan

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