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September 30, 2024
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- Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
- Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
Applications for 5 courses have been opened! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!.
1) Program for Indonesia [Language: Indonesian]
(1)The Program on Corporate Management toward Carbon Neutrality for Indonesia [IDCM].
Improve comprehensive business management skills for carbon neutrality through lectures, exercises, and company visits for managers and executives of Indonesian companies.
Duration: From 15 January to 28 January 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
2) Program for Asia [Language: English]
(1)The Program on Leadership Management for Southeast and Northeast Asia [ASLD].
Deepen understanding of practical leadership concepts, management strategies and organizational development required in DX, mainly for managers and executives in developing countries in Southeast and Northeast Asia, to promote the cultivation of a “leadership theory” that will serve as an axis for their own leadership, and to improve participants’ own leadership skills.
Duration: From 22 January to 4 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
3) Program for All Countries [Language: English]
(1)The Program on Business Innovation and Organization Development 2 [BIOD2].
Improve the participants’ leadership skills required to create business innovation and promote organizational climate reforms that will lead to business innovation.
Duration: From 22 January to 4 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
(2)The Program on Transforming to Circular Economy Business Model [CEB].
Focuses on the circular economy, which has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Participants will learn the concepts and methods to promote the transformation to a circular economy business model for the future growth of their own companies.
Duration: From 5 February to 18 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
(3)The Program on Corporate Management -Learning from Ethos of Japanese Corporate Management- [PJCM].
This program is designed for participants to learn about the characteristic management methods of excellent Japanese corporations and the thinking behind these methods to explore and apply them to their own companies.
Duration: From 12 February to 27 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
How to apply: Applications will be accepted via AOTS Alumni Societies. Please contact the closest one.
https://www.aots.jp/en/alumni/about/
Please visit AOTS website for more info.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/
FAQ for Management Programs.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/faq/
Inquiry : AOTS Overseas Cooperation Group I
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +81-(0)3-3888-8256
2. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies – September 2024
Since AOTS was founded in 1959, people from various countries have visited Japan and participated in its programs to learn about Japanese technologies and systems, the management philosophies of notable companies, and other subjects before returning to their own countries.
There have been over 200,000 of these participants.
Actually, since long ago, Japan too has regularly dispatched young people to developed overseas countries, where they absorbed skills and knowledge of many kinds and applied them to the development of Japan.
It was in one of those eras that Eiichi Shibusawa started his career.
After Eiichi was scouted to become a retainer in the Hitotsubashi household, elevating him from farmer status to samurai status, there were more surprising changes.
Prince Yoshinobu, the head of the Hitotsubashi household, became the Tokugawa Shogun.
With the aim of reforming society, Eiichi opposed the nature of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s system and politics, but against his will, he found himself part of the shogunate.
This caused him great personal anguish.
Yoshinobu Tokugawa appreciated Eiichi for the talent he had demonstrated in various fields, including reforming the Hitotsubashi household’s finances.
In consideration of his anguish, Yoshinobu gave him a new mission.
He decided to dispatch Eiichi to Europe as an attache to the government delegation attending the 1867 Paris Exposition and, at the same time, have him learn many things while abroad.
Yoshinobu believed that this mission would release Eiichi from worrying about the contradictions of his position in Japan, and what’s more, the knowledge he learned while in Europe would be of great value to Japan’s future.
Japan at that time had just ended 215 years of national isolation under the Tokugawa Shogunate based on the 1854 Japan-U.S. Treaty of Peace and Amity.
Compared to European nations, which had undergone an industrial revolution earlier during that period, Japan lagged behind in the development of technologies, systems, etc.
There were many matters that Japan had to learn in order to catch up with those European nations, such as mechanical technology, infrastructure development, capitalist thought, etc.
The social elite of the time clearly understood this as well.
Many young people besides Eiichi traveled to the West, bringing back extensive skills and knowledge for the future of Japan.
Konosuke Matsushita said that corporate management should involve “making people before products.”
I believe the same is true for managing a country.
To be continued in the next edition.
Stay tuned for the next AOTS E-Newsletter.
Rikio Suma, Author
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