Case Study: Kikokushijo Academy achieves unified digital communications and reduced internal emails with Happeo

Happeo helps Kikokushijo Academy embrace digital communications

Kikokushijo Academy, an English school serving returnee and bicultural students across multiple schools in Japan, needed a modern internal platform to unite a rapidly growing, multigenerational workforce during and after the shift to distance learning. Their old systems favored teachers, left staff overwhelmed by internal and parent emails, and prevented real-time collaboration on files — so they sought an easy-to-use, Google Workspace–integrated intranet that reduced emails, supported multiple languages, and gave teams a shared place to work.

Happeo provided a collaborative intranet with deep Google Workspace integration, Channels, Announcements, and editable rights, rolled out quickly with support from Devoteam. The platform significantly reduced internal emails, enabled real-time collaboration across multiple schools, preserved the organization’s caring culture through shared communications, and removed IT as a communications bottleneck by empowering users to publish and coordinate themselves.

Kikokushijo Academy

Chris Colucci

Information Technology Manager