Established in 1999, NTT Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world with over 20,000 employees worldwide. As NTT Communications approaches its 20th anniversary in July, it is celebrating its lengthy track record of innovation. While the company has clearly made good on its original mandate to ‘‘change communications,’’ it continues to embrace transformation and innovation.

In this profile, Communications Team Leader of Legal Affairs and Internal Auditing Masakazu Inori discusses how his internal audit team is changing the world through digital technology.