White Paper May 30, 2024 Construction of IT Infrastructure Prone to Be Forgotten at Opening, Moving, or Renovating Overseas Office

~Detailed Descriptions of Necessary Preparations~ This material presents people who are considering opening, moving, or renovating an overseas office with information on how to prepare the IT infrastructure necessary for opening an office.

When you are opening, moving, or renovating an overseas office, there is a lot of work to do. This includes arranging the interior and electrical installations, and procuring furniture and fixtures. When opening, moving, or renovating an office, you might first focus on the interior design, the layout of the furniture and fixtures, and similar works. However, building the IT infrastructure is also important. For office operations, preparing the network configuration and IT devices such as PCs and printers is essential.

In addition, new ideas in office design such as Smart Office and Activity-based Working (ABW) have emerged in recent years. To implement them as well, IT infrastructure plays a major role.

IT infrastructure is therefore vital in opening, moving, or renovating an office. However, introducing it requires some expertise, and there may be some difficulties in coordinating with overseas vendors. This material presents people who are considering opening, moving, or renovating an overseas office with information on how to prepare the IT infrastructure necessary for opening an office.

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1.	Preparing IT infrastructure is vital in opening, moving, or renovating overseas office
	①Works for introducing phones and Internet lines
	②Delivery and installation of PCs and servers
	③Network settings
	④Leading-edge solutions
2.	Difficulties in building IT infrastructure for opening, moving, or renovating an overseas office
3.	About KDDI's one-stop solution

Preparing IT infrastructure is vital in opening, moving, or renovating overseas office

There is a lot to do when you open, move, or renovate an overseas office. Among those tasks, the construction of various IT infrastructures requires experiences, knowledges, and expertise in IT. There is only a limited number of people who are familiar with rapidly-advancing IT technologies, but there might be many cases where you cannot afford to appoint anyone as full-time IT staff in an overseas office, which especially needs to operate with low staffing levels to keep costs low. Building IT infrastructure in an overseas office can be considered one of the most difficult tasks.

Particularly in recent years, Activity-based Working (ABW) which enables employees to autonomously design their own work-styles, is attracting attention. ABW is an office design principle that creates an environment that provides access to the tools and resources necessary for work to be done from various locations such as a cafe or home in addition to the office, so as to enhance employees' motivation and efficiency. The office IT infrastructure also plays an important role in implementing ABW.

To build the office IT infrastructure, the following specific works are necessary.

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