- [Brad] It's lunchtime, and this is
Brad Anderson's Lunch Break.
If you work with technology, you've probably been to
more than a few conferences in Orlando.
When I got invited to speak at Citrix Synergy,
I booked a flight, called a few really smart people
to meet up for lunch.
This week I'm meeting up with Fujitsu's
head of end user services, Karyn Jeffery.
(tinkling piano music)
All right, step up and in, Karyn, how are you?
- [Karyn] I'm very well, how are you?
- Going really well, thank you.
- Good.
- It's great that you have blocked out
just a few minutes here down at Synergy
to go drive around for a second.
- Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
- How do people know that Fujitsu is the third oldest
IT organization in the world,
all the way back to 1935,
only IBM and HP are older.
- [Karyn] Yep.
- And here you are, rolling out the new digital workplace
for all of Fujitsu worldwide.
A lot of companies would have a hard time
making that transition.
Tell us about what you've been doing
and how you've been successful.
- We look at how we can use advance technology
to empower people and change the way that we operate,
and then we also have another strategy which is
to look at co-creation.
So we work together with our partners,
and we have a huge ecosystem of partners,
like Citrix and Microsoft - I can imagine, oh yeah.
- We look at how we can use all of those things
to create new environment for ourselves
and for our customers.
- So for people who haven't spent a lot of time in Japan,
may not realize that there's something there
called the Japanese X League,
which is an American football league in Japan, okay.
(Karyn laughs)
But the thing about it, it's all the teams
are owned by companies in Japan,
and all the members of the team are employees
of the company, and Fujitsu has one of these teams,
the Fujitsu Frontiers, okay.
So this was like completely new to me, I didn't know
there were these big football leagues in Japan.
- And it's massively popular.
- Yeah!
- Massively popular.
And it's very much tied into the corporate culture as well.
- Yeah, so I'm gonna give you some company names
and mascot names, (Karyn laughs)
and we're gonna see if you can pick out
which company mascot names are true
and which ones I made up.
- [Karyn] Okay.
- [Brad] Okay, so the Toyota Bullfighters.
- No. (bell dings)
- That one is real. (horn blares)
- Ohhhhh! (Karyn laughs)
- The next one is the Honda Dragonflies.
(Karyn laughs)
- No. (bell dings)
- Yeah, that one's fake. (bell dings)
(Karyn laughs)
- The Hello Kitty Firefighters.
(Karyn laughs)
(Brad laughs)
All right, real or fake?
- Please, please make it real.
(bell dings)
- That's a fake one,
(horn blares) that's a fake one.
The Nissan Squirrels.
- [Karyn] Oh that sounds right, yeah.
(bell dings)
- That's a fake one. (horn blares)
- Ohhhh! (Brad laughs)
(Karyn laughs)
- All right, the Mitsubishi Lions.
- That's got to be real.
(bell dings) - That's a real one.
- [Karyn] Yeah.
- [Brad] Okay how about the Hitachi Body Pillows?
(Karyn laughs)
- No. (bell dings)
- That's fake, yeah.
(Karyn laughs)
- Next time I'm coming to Japan,
I'm gonna make darn good and sure
I go see one of these football games.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- [Brad] Think about VDI and centralized desktops
versus distributed desktops,
how do you kinda think about that mix
and when do you use one or the other?
- There's very much a focus on can we get to the cloud,
as we said.
If we can't, what other line of business applications that,
we'd look at legacy modernization,
how can we take the actual application to the cloud,
but if we can't do that either,
then we might look at VDI.
But the other use case for that is
if we've got contractors coming in,
or you know sort of mergers and acquisitions,
we need to rapidly make desktops available in a secure way,
and make sure that the data doesn't
go outside the business. - Yep, that make sense.
So I saw results of a study that Fujitsu did in 2016,
where you talked to 1,200 IT leaders,
and 71% of them said they can only stay relevant
if they keep innovating.
- Mm, yeah.
- [Brad] And two thirds said they need good partners.
- The other amazing thing about that was that
75% of those business leaders were saying
that their industry would not exist in its current form,
and over 50% of them were saying
their business would exist in its current form.
- Wow, in what time frame, do you remember?
- Five years.
- Wow!
- Five years, so you know, people need to change
and innovate and evolve their businesses
- And do it rapidly.
- Do it really fast, five years, that's nothing.
So with our partners, we need to bring new skills
and new capabilities to those customers
because one of their biggest challenges,
these business leaders were saying,
was that they can't access the digital skills
quickly enough to innovate quickly enough.
- So they don't have the right people
or the people don't have the skill sets that they need.
- Yeah.
- Next time on Brad Anderson's Lunch Break.
In 1991, Fujitsu came out with a console
that had a disk drive and a CD-ROM, in 1991!
- Yeah, and in 1997, we had tablets.
All biometrics I think have a huge potential
to remove passwords and really free people up
from that type of threat of fraud actually.