odysseus2000 wrote:Do people have other suggestions?
Japanese smaller companies.
Most of the Japanese economy is highly inefficient when it comes to using paperwork and communications technology. Japan is not all high-tech gadgetry; for one thing it’s the biggest user of fax machines in the world and it uses them a lot. The coronavirus is driving the same changes in business operations and consumer preferences to those that we’re seeing in the Western World, but because of existing inefficiencies in the Japanese economy there is much more low-hanging fruit to be harvested.
“Japanese decry boomer-era tech as hospitals file coronavirus cases by fax”
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3082907/japan-hospitals-still-use-fax-machines-coronavirus
Japanese business loves to use "Hanko"; signature stamps which must be physically imprinted on paper, instead of e-signatures or other alternatives. This means that many Japanese employees have still to go to the office purely to stamp documents. Not a good idea in the time of coronavirus. It also means that complex decisions requiring the approval of several people can take weeks to get everyone's Hanko stamp on the documents, much slower than in the rest of the developed world.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a presentation on the JPMorgan Japanese Smaller Companies’ website (no longer on there). The manager was talking about how in Japan it is the smaller companies which are driving the push to adopt more internet communications, with the larger companies being more constrained by traditional ways of doing business. Its largest investment is in a company whose electronic Hanko stamp has something like 80% of the online market.
"According to a survey released by Adobe K.K. in March, more than 60 percent of respondents said they had to go to their offices to check documents and stamp hanko during the time they were asked to work from home."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/30/national/hanko-seal-alternatives/
I haven’t a clue about individual companies, I’ve just bought funds.