Toward an Organization Premised on AI Utilization

Asia Quest (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) and its efforts to build an organization premised on AI were featured in the April 28, 2026 edition of Nikkei Business Digital.

In 2026, AI agents have become a management issue that determines corporate competitiveness. However, many companies fail to move beyond Proof of Concept (PoC) stage, and what is currently required is a 'transformation into an organization premised on AI.'

This article explains what Japanese companies that are lagging behind should focus on, incorporating comparisons with overseas markets. Asia Quest's efforts are introduced as a concrete answer.

Full-Scale Deployment of AI Agents: Asia Quest’s 'Offense and Defense' Organizational Design

The AI Acceleration Office, established in July 2025, actively utilizes AI agents internally and rolls out successful cases across the entire company. Simultaneously, the newly established AI Technology Management Office supports these initiatives from a security perspective.

The article covers the organization’s system for promoting company-wide AI utilization through the twin pillars of 'offense and defense,' as well as specific usage cases such as management monitoring via Slack.

About the AI Integrator Asia Quest is a group of professionals that realizes the sophistication of decision-making and business processes by combining our traditional strengths in digital integration and business engineer-led proposals with AI orchestration and advanced AI agent development. Asia Quest aims to be an 'AI Integrator' that contributes to society as a strategic partner to our clients by providing optimal domain-specific AI agents.