Masato Nakao the representative director, chairman, and CEO of Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions is a professional executive who previously served as a management consultant and was involved in numerous business reorganizations and corporate transformations, with a focus on manufacturing. As i-PRO embarks on a new departure, having become independent from Panasonic in October 2019, from what perspective will Mr. Nakao capture its strengths as a new organization and demonstrate his capabilities?

With the increasing importance of sensing devices worldwide, Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions set sail on a new ocean in October 2019. Representative director, president, and COO Shohei Ozaki took the helm of the company with a management sense he cultivated through diverse experience gained in various gemba (scenes). Here we talk about the "evolution" that Ozaki is aiming for as an organization, the "strategy" that it should be pursuing both in Japan and overseas, and the "future" beyond i-PRO.