Corporate Development
Center
Operations to Maximize the
Capabilities of Research
&
Development of the Whole Honda R&D
Corporate Development Center is, in order to enhance the competitiveness of the company, conducting comprehensive operations such as bringing together each research center cross-functionally, maximizing R&D potential, and expanding capability.
Development of Center-wide Policy to
Support Honda’s Future
As a research institute supporting the future of Honda, we have set a direction for the entire R&D Center across multiple research centers.
To meet the future’s diverse needs, we must enhance the creativity of our researchers, who will continue creating new values and technologies and broaden the scope of our research. Meanwhile, to produce effective results from limited resources, we drew up an idea of “what kind of society we want to create for the future” to realize this worldview. We are developing a technological strategy for the entire R&D Center.
Accelerating New Value Creation through Maximization of Human and Organizational Performance
To create new value and technologies in the future, we are actively recruiting diverse human resources from Japan and overseas to create a group of innovative researchers.
We aim to enable each individual to play an active role with a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment through our human resource initiatives, which are based on the Honda Philosophy, include providing a work style that allows researchers to immerse themselves in research, establishing a personnel system that encourages researchers to strive for high goals without fear of failure, providing training and self-learning opportunities that support individual career and professional development, and offering internal job openings.
Reform of Research and Development Operations and Promotion of Project Management
To create new values and technologies ahead of the rest of the world, we are working to maximize the efficiency of the development process and accelerate research and development.
In addition to promoting the development of existing projects, we strategically plan and manage resources and schedules for advanced research projects to ensure their promotion. Furthermore, we contribute to improving competitiveness by promptly linking new value and technology to business.
“Monozukuri” in Advanced Technology Domains
We are realizing original ideas through advanced and innovative “monozukuri” (i.e., manufacturing) to create new values and technologies in the future.
We have established advanced manufacturing technologies that integrate the real and virtual. We are developing various new technologies ranging from a society with zero environmental impact and zero accidents to future mobility.
As a comprehensive “monozukuri” unit capable of planning prototypes and making decisions based on a bird’s eye view of internal and external production, we are at the forefront of the R&D Center and continue to take on the challenge of creating new values through “monozukuri” that leads creative development by realizing pioneering prototypes.
Communication with Stakeholders in Research and Development
To accelerate research and development and realize a new mobility society, we conduct activities to promote our technologies to stakeholders, and liaison activities to promote understanding of our technologies among the general public and related organizations. We exhibit the latest technologies at technical exhibition events both inside and outside the company, both in Japan and overseas, and provide opportunities for engineers to study with one another by holding in-house academic events to present research results.
Our commitment to fostering young engineers is unwavering. We support the operation of student formula competitions, providing a platform for them to showcase their skills and learn from the best. Through the Honda R&D website, we share explanations of various technologies and the challenges and passion of our researchers, ensuring that our future Honda associates feel valued and invested.
Creating a Facility Environment that Ensures Research and Development
We are working to realize a society with zero environmental impact by creating the “present” facility environment that supports research and development and weaving it into the “future.”
With an eye on the future of the entire R&D Center, including buildings and research and development facilities, we are evolving the R&D Center of the future through strategic operations that maximize the use of resources, facility strategies that pioneer and demonstrate new values and technologies, and the realization of an optimal technology development environment by constantly anticipating changes in the social environment.
Environmental Improvement and Operational Management to Support Research and Development
Research and Development require bold initiatives but are essential for building a foundation for smooth execution.
The “Accounting” department manages the flow of money throughout the company; the “Personnel and Labor” department is responsible for personnel management, including recruitment and human resource development, and labor management, including labor-management negotiations; the “General Affairs” department prepares the working environment for associates who perform various research and development tasks; the “Corporate Governance” department strives to maintain the soundness of the company by verifying the risks of new technologies to be adopted based on legal expertise and trends in the world, and the “Health and Safety” department ensures safety in the development of new technologies, in addition to occupational safety and health.
We contribute to creating new technologies and smooth corporate operations through these activities.
