Dear my personal and business Friends!
May wish you all enjoy Merry Christmas for 2017！
A Happy New year for 2018 with fine health and resilient spirit in yourpersonal, social and business life!
New Year Note—Heisei 30th 2018 1.1
This is a Year of Earth Dog, starting from January 1st of Heisei 30th year to Dec. 31st,2018 on Japanese calendar. In Chinese calendar, new year starting from Feb. 16, 2018
(Chinese New Year) and lasting to Feb. 4, 2019. Dog is the eleventh in the 12-year cycle.
So, if you dive Western years by 12 and if the remainder number is 2, then that year
means Dog year.
The Years of the Dog include 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018,
2030, 2042 etc....One more on Oriental Zodiac: Dog year has 5 types of dog years for
60 years cyclically; Wood, Fire, Earth, Gold and Water. Each person born in Zodiac year
(i.e., this year, DOG) has a least fortune or luck in that year. The old Chinese wiseadvisory for the Zodiac born person, “Be Humble” to “Heaven” and “all people”, andthen God of Age will not give you the big win but at least not to lose even in the zodiac
year, leaving better luck for following years. I don’t know if Donald Trump know he
was born in Fire dog year and this year is Earth Dog year. Once passing over this Earthdog year, big win follow later.
One of the biggest news in Japan:
On April 31st of Heisei 31st (2019), Japanese government announced in December 1st,2017 that Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30, 2019 and on May 1st, the current
crown prince Naruhito shall become heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne as
126th Emperor of Japan and Masako shall become Empress consort. Due to strong wishof Emperor Akihito will become the retired Emperor and Michiko shall become the
Empress Dowager.
Let me again wish you all, my personal, business, academia, friends in the world ofglobal information society being blessed by your god and Buddha as the following:
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present
moment. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness thebest relationship. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve yourlove and affection. What we think, we become.

Yours sincerely,
Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda
President & CEO, ReGIS Inc. E-Mail: jfujieda2@re-gis.com

http://www.re-gis.com

Chairman, The Open Group Japan E-Mail: j.fujieda@opengroup.org http://www.opengroup.org
Chairman of CRM Association, Japan

http://www.crma-j.org/

IT adviser, Kyoto University

http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en1Annual Report of ReGIS Inc., 2017/1/4～2017/12/26■ ReGIS Inc. Major activities:2017◆The Open Group Staff Kick Off Meeting:2017 started for me as surprising invitation of Ritsuko Ono and me by Steve Nunn and
Patricia to participate at The Open Group all staff kick off meeting, held at Tylney Hall andgarden, Hampshire, where very elegantly built 315 years ago and maintained in aristocraticmanner.
We participated and on Jan. 10th, Japan time 11th, I was cerebrated for my birth day by all
staff. It was a real moving night.
Thank you Steve and Patty san and all the Open Group staffs attended.

Tylney Hall Hotel and Gardens◆◆Global Open Group Conference:
Jan/Feb; San Francisco, April; Berlin, July; Ottawa. I cancelled trip to Amsterdam at
October due to my back pain.
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◆GIS Forum Activities:
Jan: GIS Forum #101 as joint member council in January, co-held by ReGIS, The OpenGroup & CRM association key members luncheon & panel;

April: Open Summit 2017-GIS FORUM TOKYO 102 are held jointly with The Open
group inviting Steve Nunn with Open Technical Forum 2017-#1 and following day.

Mr. Shigeki Suzuki,

Mr. Steve Nunn, President & CEO,Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination,

The Open Group at Main Speech(International Affairs), Ministry offor 2017 Open Group direction

Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) at opening speech

Panel Discussion(From left)

From left front:-Moderator;Dr. Shuichiro Yamamoto

Mr.Steve Nunn, Mrs.Eri Fujieda,-Mr. Naoki Ishihama, JAXA

Mr.Stuart Arkley, Jack Fujieda-Mr. Nobuhide Kobayashi, DENSO CREATE INC.

From right back:-Mr. Satoshi Kitsuki, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD

Prof. M. Minoh, Mr. K.Kawano,-Mr. Kiyoshi Kimachi, FUJITSU LIMITED

Ms. M.Takahashi, Mrs.M.Kimura-Mr. Shuji Kase,Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Mr. Y.Hayashi, Ms.R.Ono,
Ms.A.Kawahara, Mr. A.Fukushima

Eri & Stuart,Receiving a bouquet for their
Marriage by ReGIS Staff at the Part II of
Forum 102
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◆ReGIS Open Cup #1 at Taiheiyo Club at Narita. Professor Minoh win.

From left front:
Mr.Steve Nunn,
Mr. N.Hashi, Jack

Professor Minoh win.

From right front:
Professor M. Minoh, Mr.M.Fukamachi, Jack Fujieda,
Mr. H.Ueda,Mr.Steve Nunn, Mrs.H.Morishima,
From left back:
Mr.A.Fukushima, Professor S.Yamamoto, Mr. S.Fujieda,
Mr. N.Hashi, Mr.K.Sano, Mr. K.Shigemasa, Mr.M.Hayashi,
Mr. K.Kawano

June: GIS Forum #103; We invited Apple Director Glenn Bulycz with OpenTechnical Forum #2.

Mr. Glenn J. Bulycz,
Apple, Inc.

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From left front:
Mr.T.Kawamura, Jack Fujieda,
Mr. Glenn J. Bulycz,
Mr.A.Otsuka, Mr. S.Miyo,
Ms. R.ONO
From right back:
Mr.Y.Fujita, Mr.H.Sato,
Mr.Y.Kawakami, Mr.M.Hayashi,
Mr.M.Yamamoto,Mr.H.Ito
Mr.K.Shigemasa,
Mr.A.Fukushima, Mr.T.Akiyama,
Mr.H.Ueda, Ms.R.Koshio,
Mrs.S.Iwaki, Mr.K.Matsuzawa,
Mr.K.Kawano,
Mr.A.Konishi, Ms.A.Kawahara

July: GIS Forum #104 CRM Sponsored Invited Speaker Bob Thompson, my partner in
USA.

Mr. Robert G. Thompson,
Founder & CEO of CustomerThink
Corporation

From right back:Jack, Mrs. Regina and Mr. Bob Thompson,
Mr. Norishige Morimoto, IBM Japan,
Mr. Adam Blitzer,salesforce.com,Inc.
Mr.Kiichi Kawano

From left front:ReGIS Staff,
Ms.Masumi Takahashi, Ms.Azusa Kawahara,
Ms.Rieko Koshio, Mrs.Miwako Kimura,
Ms. Ritsuko Ono5After Ottawa conference, I reunioned in several years, my 2nd American brother,
former X-IBM,X-Wavefront CEO, X-HP in Boston.

Mrs. Mary and Mr. Bud Enright
Harold F. Enright, Jr. and Jack

Sept: GIS Forum # 105:
Open Group Technical Forum 2017-3
Ottawa report:

Professor Shuichiro Yamamoto

Mr. Kazuto Nakamura,
FUJITSU LIMITED6◆ReGIS Open Cup #2 at Taiheiyo Club at Narita. Mr. Okubo win.

Mr. T.Okubo win

Dec: GIS Forum #106: We invited Doug Evans (Son of Bob Evans), SFO Lawyer
GLOBAL ID
On Fintech & Architecture based INNOVATION at dawn of Quantum Computing: OpenTechnical Forum Report on Amsterdam. All 4 Open Technical Forum, we invite all Open Group
Members and TOGAF certified, ArchiMate Certified could join free.

Mr. Douglas B. Evans,Managing Director, Pragmata Law Corp.

Opening Speech:
Mr. Norishige Morimoto,Executive Officer, IBM Japan, Ltd.
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Speech: Dr. Keiji Tachikawa

Speech:X- President & CEO of Japan Aerospace

Mr. Masatoshi Toriihara

Exploration Agency(JAXA), Former President &Former Vice Chairman, Japan Society

CEO, NTT DOCOMO

for the Promotion of Machine Industry

Cheers: Mr. Ken Kubo, President &CEO Sumitomo Mitsui Card
Company,Ltd.,X-Representative
Executive VP of SMBC Bank

From right: Mr. David Escalante C,
Food & Beverage Service Manager
American Club
Ms. Kae Shimokawa,Student of Hosei University
Mrs. Chizuka Yamakita,
Senior Bridal Sales Manager,

From right:
Mr. N. Morimoto, Jack

American ClubMr. Douglas B. Evans
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From left:

From left:

M.C.: Mr. Hirobumi Kawamura,

Mr. Hirobumi Kawamura, Rococo Co., Ltd.

Executive Producer, Rococo Co., Ltd.

Mr. Kazuto Nakamura,FUJITSU Ltd.

M.C.: Mr. Ahmed Abbas Mahmoud Mostafa,

Mr. Douglas B. EvansManager, Rococo Co., Ltd.

Jack

Jack

Stop halfway：

From right front:

Mr. Yoshihiko Fujita, COO,

Mr. Douglas B. Evans

Mobile Internet Technology Co., LTD.
Operating officer, Asuka AssetManagement Co., Ltd.

Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda, President & CEO, ReGIS Inc.
Mr. Akira Fukushima, Adviser, ReGIS Inc.
Mr. Kiichi, Adviser, ReGIS Inc.
From left back:
Mr. Sakito Matsuyama
Ms. Kae Shimokawa, Student of Hosei University
Mr. Yoshihiko Fujita
Mr. Naoki Hashi, President,Daiki Information System
ReGIS Inc. Staff; Ms.Azusa Kawahara, Ms. Masumi
Takahashi,Ms. Miwako Kimura, Ms. Ritsuko Ono,
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Mrs. Satoe Iwaki

◆2017

GOOD News (1):The Open group business helped ReGIS 2017 FY # 22nd revenue recovered to the 2nd best
even though 70% to the highest 2008 revenue, followed by 4 negative years and 3 just a plusand 1 good FY 2017 ended by June; Thanks to;① Architecture centric open translation volunteers activities② Demand of TOGAF gradually increased in 2016 & especially 2017 1st half
③ Fujitsu ‘s board members initiatives and new members, Yokokawa, Azbil on Open process
Automation.
④ It was a bit risk decision to invest in The Open Group in Japan but it is finally having
blossoms in almost 20 years. And came up almost to make up even for cumulative loss.
⑤ All staff dedicated excellent works instructors, proctor, QC staff, Class manager, admin staff◆GOOD News (2) Expansions of number of courses:
2017 Progress of strategy changes from Open Group Account Membership approach to
TOGAF, ArchiMate, O-DA and IT4IT direction with heavy translation team investment.
We are fully ready to release all translation of ArchiMate and some 60% of IT4IT
translation now completed.
Original strategy of my Open group account membership increase program worked perfectly
for initial 10 years starting from 1998, before Lehman shock and bubble burst in 2008, 2009 andfollowing bad luck by 2011 3.11 disaster in Japan.
That crushed out 28 members down to 10 members but increase now to 13 headed by Fujitsu,
Nissan, SIOS, LT solution, Yokogawa, Zabel, JAXA, Sigma, ReGIS, Asahi Techneion, Kyoto
University, Aiyana Univ. Nagoya Univ.,
Since my announcement of TOGAF 9.0, I convinced my ReGIS member accounts to use
TOGAF for their base education for Architects like NISSAN, NTT holding,
NTT Compare, HP, CISCO, Oracle, JR, Asahi Techneion, NRI, IBM, TOYOTA (still noteffective) especially, in 2016 and 2017, Tata Japan, Saison information system were very muchcontributing to the hike up of TOGAF demand in 2017.

◆GOOD News (3):
Steady Increase of TOGAF 9.1 course in 3 years and achieved good certified
Architects to almost 900 (V.8 & V.9)
We tried to increase the number of TOGAF course gradually to expand in these 3 years,
in 2015, 5 classes; in 2016 6 classes; in 2017, 7 classes produced TOGAF 9 certified up to
632 plus Version 8, 262 together 894 and added ArchiMate course 2.1 in 2006, andArchiMate 3.0 course in 2017, all ArchiMate certified individuals are 34 certified.

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◆GOOD News (4):Fujitsu jumped up 81％ to 152 certified TOGAF 9.1 by one year.
I received a report from Fujitsu 2 weeks ago, that Fujitsu will continue that Governing board
position of the open group much proactively for following two years on. Thanks to Mr. Furuta,
SVP, and Mr. Taniguchi Executive representative VP guidance encouraged to Japanese teams
to take match aggressive action to be followed.
By only one year, after getting the Open group board position, Fujitsu increased theircompetent SE team equipped with TOGAF Version 9.1 jumped up 81% from 84 to 152. Among
that, Japanese are less than 20.

◆GOOD News (5):NTT group became WW #2 in Communication industry of TOGAF certified
Architects jumped up 204 after WW No. 1 Verizon of 240 Certified.
--NTT Group Total TOGAF certified in the world reached to 204 ranked as No. 2
in Global Communication industry after Verizon about half in other than Japan
including NTT America, NTT Data USA, Dimension data (NTT Group Cloudcompany); followed by T-System 90, BT 70, KPN 70, Vodafone 50,--In Automobile Industry, Nissan 40 had been No.1 but now became No.2. TESLA
became No.1 by 44, followed by Harley Davidson 29, Ford 10, Toyota ITS 4.

■ Government TOGAF Certified Statistics
They are motivated by the global big move of The Open architecture trends by FACE, Open
Process and Healthcare movement, all based upon TOGAF based open design process both
Universities, industries and also Fujitsu global team had much interest in their government
business as well as industries.
So I studied global governments, how did they initiated TOGAF certified members startingfrom United Nation 25, NATO 10, EU 34, DOD 10, NASA 10, UK Government biggest 150
including HMRC (treasury agency) 62, Canadian Government 35 certified; Norway 18 certified,
Australia 18, New Zeeland 8, Singapore 12 etc. and total 70k TOGAF certified architects on
TOGAF 9 was announced at Ottawa conference as of July 2017 in the world. 80% of
Global fortune 50 and 60% of Global Fortune 500 is using TOGAF. (As of 2015 Oct.)◆ArchiMate is the language originally developed by Holland national Research project forArchitecture descriptive language in 2002 to 2004 with 4 million Euro funds to make modelinglanguage for Software architecture in line with IEEE 1471 and ownership transferred to The
Open Group from 2008 and 2009 announced ArchiMate 1.0 by The Open Group ArchiMate
forum now up graded to Version 3.0 2017 to follow TOGAF principles and made it adjusted at
TOGAF 9.1 as Modeling language for EA as a standard.
We are still investing into IT4IT consulting course development to be operational at next 3Q.
I personally think to have a full powered course, we need to add the much convincing
consulting framework of Valuation models with some tools and valuation models.
We are ready to release ArchiMate full translation materials of the book and Pearson
Japanese test in 1Q 2018.

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As a bottom line, the strongest drivers for 2016, 2017 growth are dependent upon last two
years of strong move of TATA and Other one company’s top down decision made by newly
assigned president to use TOGAF at his 1000 people software company who was one of a longtime partner as a Junkyo Members of ReGIS for a long time.

■ CRM Association Activities:2017◆CRM started by publishing the white paper 2017 CRM Best Practice Awards by the end of
March, 2017. We have been printing every year since 2004 over 3008 pages with 176 Winners
reports and white papers from Bob Thompson and me plus some volunteers from selection
committees and governing board members.
Please refer summary information from our home page.
(http://www.crma-j.org/english/best_practice/best_practice_02_2016.html).
Books are used in member companies for their study purposes how to improve their operation
towards CCRM and distributed to almost all Japanese major libraries country and listed in
Amazon for students and some non-members but not big. Majority is for donations to library.
.
◆CRM joined GIS, Open Group Joint forum in Jan. and start appreciating TOGAF based
CCRM design as started in Panasonic, Nikko Security, now by SAISON and planning to expand
TOGAF EA approaches are best suited to design innovative Customer Centric Architecturedevelopment.
◆May, CRM Chubu Forum◆July, CRM Association General Assembly of all members and governing Board◆July, 2017 CCRM Executive Forum invited Bob Thompson, the founder of CRM Guru Now
Customerthink.com who has 250K web members on “CustomerThink” concerns, my 20 years
partner in CRM activities.
◆October, Mie Forum, Vice Mayer of Tsu city fully attended with 100 attendees.
◆Nov, CRM Best Practice Award Winner Forum, by 2017 up to 176 organizations since 2004.
As a most rich customer experiences are shared by all winners and stimulating each otherthus as two corporations, Panasonic and Mitsui Sumitomo Nikko security corp. achieved 10
times of awards out of 14 years and second group is in their 6 times of award winning
experiences only one by Vision. 3 times winners are all 6; Saison, Forum8, Mitsui Sumitomo
Bank, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Tsu City, Fujitsu and 2nd times winners are all 16, Thus,
out of 85 unique organization members since 2008, 25 companies had been challenging twice to
10 times winning by now. About 30% of best practice applied companies are multiple
challengers and still 70% of Best practice awarded companies are one time only and no CCRM
improvement were tried. As you know, there is no saturation points in Customer Centric
Relationship Management. So, from your companies CXO point of view, it is better to study EA
standards like TOGAF and ArchiMate to design your CCRM business process with ICT in along- range view. Our leader company like Mitsi Sumitomo group, Panasonic, Vision, Saison
information, Fujitsu had started to practicing their improvement of CCRM in a veryarchitectural way across company’s wide views even into the group operation.
We have been busy to help our members, clients on their innovational design by introducing
TOGAF business Scenario in open innovation and consultation to the corporation who needs
advices.

12This increase of multiple challengers is our real pride on how they are serious andarchitecture oriented in pursuance of the Customer Centric Business Transformation, CCRM
movement.

■ My ACADEMY activities:2017◆Academic Engagement: As I reported you all, now, I retired to teach any student in theacademy except one case in Kyoto university.
As IT adviser to Kyoto university, I am invited to attend the long-range architecture of
Kyotouniversity ICT plan for decades in every 3 months, a full day. I enjoy with meeting all
ICT related professor, Adjunct and assistant professor in Media lab and Educational quality
training professors together. All about 40 people.
◆An emerging Open Data Lake project of Open Group Health Care Forum to integrate life
Time medical records of individual and sanitize all personal privacy information and open forthe patient and for all healthcare researcher using big data analytics and science for patients forhis self-control aids and for medical doctors a new cause analysis and adaptive earlier Mental
healthcare treatment and find an effective new medicines.
I am planning to work with famous healthcare group in Japan to propose a new data lake
project.
I am waiting all my friends and my professional associate, global architects in The
Open Group to advise me any successful case of Open data lake around mental health,especially, on Alzheimer cases.
How can we find small but intricated symptoms, some uncommon experience, anearlier enough before the decease diagnosed at later stages?
We needs to find the predictable methods and Data analysis of behaviors a way before
doctor diagnose. Any successful Open Data Lake cases published in White paper formental healthcare in the world? Please advise me.
(Fin)Yours Sincerely, Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda
President & CEO, ReGIS Inc.

Phone: 81-3-5360-8300

Fax: 81-3-5361-3123

Chairman, The Open Group Japan Phone: 81-3-5360-8211

Fax:81-3-5361-3123

Chairman of CRM Association, Japan Phone: 81-3-3356-7787

Fax:81-3-5361-3123

Mobile: 81-90-3336-1122 E-Mail: jfujieda2@re-gis.com

j.fujieda@opengroup.org

Office Address: YAMADA Bldg. 10F, 1-1-14, Shinjuku, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 160-0022

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