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Name of Skill |
Definition |
Reasons for Selection |
Skills that the Company as a listed company requires Members of the Board of Directors to have regardless of the management environment |
Corporate business management |
Experience in building a company’s or business entity’s strategy and operating organizations from a medium- to long-term perspective as top management |
To plan, build and oversee management strategy that enables Murata as a corporation to enhance its corporate value sustainably. |
Finance, accounting, and capital policy |
Knowledge or experience in accounting, tax affairs, finance, capital policy and IR activities in corporate business management |
To plan, execute and oversee accounting, tax affairs, financial strategy, capital policy and IR activity in line with management strategy, taking into account requests from the capital market to Murata as a listed company. |
HR, personnel affairs and human resources development |
Knowledge or experience in human capital management |
To perform management of human capital that Murata positions as one of the key management capitals and realize and oversee Employee Satisfaction, which is one of the values that Murata cherishes. |
Governance, risk management, and compliance |
Knowledge or experience in the mechanism of corporate governance, risk management and monitoring methods, and corporate ethics |
To plan, build, and oversee strategies regarding governance, risk control and compliance that will be the foundation for Murata to perform management that creates a continuous cycle of social value and economic value and realize sustainability. |
Insight into industry and market strategy |
Knowledge of the electronics industry that Murata operates in and industries that Murata intends to focus on, or experience in these industries’ market strategy research, building, execution or oversight |
Because these skills will become the preconditions for planning, executing and overseeing Murata’s management strategy and market strategy from a bird’s eye view. |
Skills required in light of the business category, management environment and policy of Murata |
Technology and R&D |
Knowledge or experience in technology and R&D, and intellectual and technological capital management |
To plan, execute and oversee strategies, whereby Murata enriches and utilizes intellectual and technological capital to ensure Murata keeps providing unique products into the future as Innovator in Electronics. |
Internationality and global experience |
Experience in working overseas or knowledge of the business environment and culture overseas |
To plan, execute and oversee strategies from a global perspective as Murata, whose overseas sales ratio exceeds 90% and whose subsidiaries and affiliates overseas outnumber its domestic ones, is aiming to be Global No. 1 component manufacturer. |
Industrial and trade policy |
Knowledge or experience in industrial and trade strategies in each country (including the network, gained from such experience, to grasp the latest and future trend of the strategies) |
To plan, execute and oversee strategies flexibly and effectively amid geopolitical risks mounting as Murata is pursuing the fields of communications, mobility, the environment and wellness as business opportunities and such fields involve large volumes of cross border transactions and strongly reflect each country’s industry polices. |