To lead new businesses, digital transformation (DX), and product development to success, we provide two service lines, "Creative & Engineering" and "Talent Platform."
Creative & Engineering Service provides comprehensive support from idea generation, business design, prototyping, development to growth by specialized teams in technology, design, and business.
Our value creation processes and methods, cultivated through more than 600 new business and DX projects, lead to project success.
More than 1,500 talents, including engineers, UX designers, IT consultants, business consultants, business development directors, product owners, etc., have gathered in a studio called Sun*.A wide variety of experts support new businesses and DX as one team.
We place importance on "User-Centered Design" when giving shapes to ideas. Through design researches and workshops, we think through the essential values like whether it solves their problems, what value it should provide, and whether it is comfortable to use.
Once we understand the essential issues of users, we conduct business design (idea generation and business model discussion), concept development, and prototyping. After making an investment decision, we proceed to its development.
Sun* provides "Short Project" and "MVP Development Solution" specialized in prototyping and MVP (Minimum Viable Product) development support, "Boost ( Development)" for speedy development growth, and comprehensive consulting services to lead new businesses and DX to success.
UX designers and engineers who are well-experienced in make things from scratch turn basic business ideas into business designs. We support user research, business design, and key visual making for storytelling in 12 to 16 weeks.
| Duration | 1-3 months |
| Outcomes | Summary material + Key visual |
| Director | 0.5 x 3 months |
| UI Designer | 0.5 x 3 months |
| Engineer | 0.5 x 3 months |
We make a low-cost MVP (Minimum Viable Product) before actual development. Having a workable product in an early stage enables us to reconfirm user needs and redefine the most important features for users. Consequently, time and cost will become less compared to the traditional development process. MVP development is the first step of Agile Development.
| Duration | 3-6 months |
| Outcomes | MVP + Demonstration test material |
| Director | 0.5 x 3 months |
| UI Designer | 0.5 x 3 months |
| Engineer | 0.5 x 3 months |
We can also handle projects that require an immediate start of development. For more details about our development system, please refer to "Sun*'s Development and Technology Capabilities."
We also provide specialized solutions for strengthening engineering systems and development resources.
New businesses and DX require different human resources/teams from start-up to growth phase. Sun*'s talent solution supports formulating and executing suitable recruitment strategies for each stage.
In new businesses development and DX, the launch itself is not the goal. Maintaining the continuous PDCA cycle for both business and development processes to ensure business growth is also necessary. Sun* has a specialized team to support business growth, but new business or DX also requires a strong team within the clients' side to succeed. Sun* Talent Platform Service provides various human resource solutions in each phase, such as recruiting and training support and comprehensive execution support from recruitment strategy planning to PDCA cycle.
During the "0→1" launching phase, it is important for the entire team to strongly sympathized with the vision and objectives and realize business ideas with passion, commitment, and speed.
（Key Talent）
-CTO,COO
- Person experienced in entrepreneurship and business development
- Person experienced in customer development (new customer acquisitions and alliances)
- Person experienced business launch at startup.
Due to a weak internal development organization, projects do not progress or miss business opportunities during the growth phase when accelerating new businesses and DX. To clear the bottlenecks, Sun* supports by recruiting excellent IT human resources and reinforcing development organization.
(Key Position)
- Excellent human resources in IT (domestic and overseas)
- Bridge SE
Through industry-academia collaboration, Sun* develops and produces IT personnel who can work in Japan, mainly in ASEAN countries (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia.)
Sun* has taken over the HEDSPI project, which started as ODA by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and supports matching candidates with Japanese companies as a direct recruiting service.
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In Japan, the IT human resources shortage is getting more and more serious. According to "Survey Report on IT Human Resources Supply and Demand" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, there will be a shortage of 790,000 IT human resources by 2030. As a result, both startups that want to grow their business and large companies that want to launch new businesses are facing the challenge of a shortage of engineers. Sun* has established a unique ecosystem by applying know-how incorporated through Creative & Engineering Services into university education and programming school to nurture human resources. Approximately 2,000 students are training in Japan and other countries every year. We are working to create a global value creation infrastructure.