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Japan to boost IT for small businesses
06 февраля 2008 |
Tokyo is set to invest in infrastructure that will provide much-needed software services for Japan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, in the first such state-funded effort to raise SME productivity.
Alarmed by a widening gap in IT
investments between Japan’s top companies and smaller ones, Tokyo is
set to invest Y5bn ($47m) in establishing an interface that will
provide a range of software services for SMEs, including accounting, HR
management and supply chain management services.
Small companies will pay a nominal fee to access the services. The
government will start tendering bids from the private sector for
services from April, and the platform will be available for use in
January 2009.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry estimates if at least 500,000 of Japan’s SMEs –
one-seventh of all small and mid-sized companies – access the platform
and incorporate IT systems into their businesses, it will raise their
productivity by 3 per cent a year.
Smaller companies are the backbone of the Japanese economy, with seven
in 10 working Japanese employed by SMEs. However, many companies still
have hand-written ledgers and rely on faxes and postal services to
transmit documents.
According to Meti, investment in IT systems by companies capitalised at more than Y10bn has risen above Y5bn in 2004, a 16 per cent increase since 2000. But
IT investment by those capitalised at less than Y10bn has fallen or
remained stagnant at a level of Y1bn or less over the same period.
Источник: Financial Times
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