SCSK Corporation and Business Cube & Partners Inc. Announce Business Alliance for "Site-Centric" Consulting Services in In-Vehicle Development

SCSK Corporation (Head Office: Koto-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, Executive Officer and President: Takaaki Tojima; hereinafter SCSK) and Business Cube & Partners Inc. (Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Juan Manuel Estevez; hereinafter Biz3) have commenced a business alliance for providing "site-centric" consulting services in in-vehicle development. This service combines Biz3's consulting expertise with SCSK's highly specialized human resources and software development capabilities. By thoroughly understanding on-site challenges with a "site-centric" approach, it provides comprehensive support from planning improvements to execution, stabilization, and even human resource development, contributing to the business growth of our clients.

1. Background

In the Japanese automotive industry, the acceleration of SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) transformation is rapidly shifting the focus of vehicle development from hardware control to large-scale database-driven software development. This change has led to a massive increase in the scale and complexity of product development, which traditional development processes and organizational structures cannot adequately handle. Meanwhile, many companies face challenges such as "development processes not optimized for software," "shortage of specialized personnel and skill gaps," and "normalization of stopgap troubleshooting" in response to rapid SDV transformation.

To address these challenges, we believe that providing business reforms based on actual on-site conditions and integrated execution support by specialized personnel is one effective solution. Therefore, Biz3, which specializes in consulting, and SCSK, which excels in software development and IT capabilities, have partnered to offer hybrid hands-on "consulting and business improvement support by specialized personnel."

Through this collaboration, we will provide end-to-end support from visualizing challenges through thorough on-site analysis to executing improvement measures, contributing to the sustainable growth of the automotive industry and enhancing productivity at development sites.

2. Service Features and Benefits

This service focuses on a "site-centric" approach, deeply understanding on-site challenges to accurately identify issues. It provides consistent support from improvement planning to execution, stabilization, and human resource development. This enables us to offer forward-looking support in rapidly changing in-vehicle development, achieving improved development speed and early project launch through the deployment of immediate talent.

① Support from a business improvement team tailored to customer needs

We form an optimal business improvement team according to customer needs. We can provide consistent support for challenges such as when companies struggle to advance business improvements on their own, from establishing and stabilizing/streamlining business improvement organizations, to fully outsourcing business improvement efforts.

② Advanced specialized knowledge from two companies as a knowledge base.