AOTS E-Newsletter: Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program) / Insight
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<Index>
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
2. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
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1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
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Applications for 8 courses have been opened! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!.
1) Program for South Asia [Language: English]
(1) The Program on New Business Creation for South Asia [SABC].
This newly established program is designed to deepen participants' understanding of entrepreneurship, examine possibilities for business creation, and design new businesses.
Duration: From 12 February to 26 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
2) Program for Vietnam [Language: Vietnamese]
(1) The Program on Problem Solving through AI & IoT for Vietnam [VNAI].
The program aims to enable participants to develop solutions to their own company's challenges by using AI and IoT.
In addition to lectures and company visits, participants will experience a hands-on technical exercise using an IoT sensor and AI modules.
Duration: From 13 February to 26 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
3) Program for Latin America [Language: Spanish]
(1) The Program on Organizational Revitalization for Latin America [LAOR].
In this program, the participants will understand and examine the attitude of leaders who promote organizational revitalization.
Duration: From 20 February to 5 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
4) Program for Thailand [Language: Thai]
(1) The Program on Family Business Management for Thailand [THFB].
In this program, participants will learn about characteristics of Japanese family businesses in terms of management methods and how Japanese long-established family businesses carry out human resource development and transfer skills to the next generation.
Duration: From 4 March to 17 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
5) Program for East Europe [Language: English]
(1) The Program on Innovation Management for East Europe [EEIM].
Participants will become capable of planning innovative new businesses by learning how to discover business opportunities, create new value, and formulate business models that are not bound by existing systems through lectures, exercises, and case studies of Japanese companies.
Duration: From 6 March to 19 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
6) Program for All Countries [Language: English]
(1) The Quality Control Training Course [QCTC].
Through hands-on exercises, company visits, and lectures, this course will deepen the participants' understanding of the proper way to promote TQM and quality management activities.
Duration: From 20 February to 7 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
(2) The Program for Quality Problem Solving [PQPS].
This program aims to strengthen and improve the problem-solving abilities of mainly managers, supervisors or engineers of companies, with a view to improving quality.
Duration: From 5 March to 18 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
(3) The Program on Productivity Improvement Utilizing Creativity at the Gemba [PICG].
This is a newly developed training program. Participants learn manufacturing methods (5S, IE, Karakuri Kaizen*, etc.) that utilize the creativity of on-site (Gemba) employees and enhance their ability to identify and improve issues that promote higher productivity.
Many exercises using simulated production lines are incorporated to improve practical skills.
*Karakuri Kaizen is a registered trademark of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance.
Duration: From 11 March to 21 March 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: shouhei-au@aots.jp
Tel: +81-(0)3-3888-8256
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2. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
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Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies - October 2024
In 1867, at the age of 27, Eiichi Shibusawa was dispatched to Europe for about a year and a half to handle general affairs and accounting for Japan's delegation at the Paris Exposition.
During that time, he observed various European countries, including France. What did he learn there?
At that time, Europe was right in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.
What interested Eiichi the most, however, was not steelworks and various other factories or cutting-edge technology such as urban infrastructure (railways, water and sewer systems, etc.)-surprisingly, it was the social structure and the systems for managing those countries' economies.
His first startling experience happened during the journey to France.
He boarded a steam train for the first time on a route that traversed 600 km from Suez to Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea.
From the window, he witnessed excavation work on the Suez Canal, which was then under construction.
He couldn't believe his ears when he heard that this project, one of the biggest of the century, was being undertaken through the efforts of private enterprise.
This was the shareholder company system, which pursued projects through the efforts of the people, developing a plan and collecting capital from many sources.
In Japan at that time, it was standard practice for a project of this kind to be driven by masters who monopolized the wealth, with the people simply following orders.
In this case, however, people who supported this visionary project contributed money to it, and if it was successful, the profits would be distributed to the investors.
Eiichi believed that Japan should study this approach as an economic model for the nation's future development.
After that, it was his philosophy that in order to serve the public interest, projects should be managed by collecting capital and recruiting personnel from a wide range of people, including ordinary, unknown citizens.
I hope that participants who visit Japan through AOTS's programs will study not just its advanced technologies and systems but also make an effort to understand the philosophy and social background underlying its success.
Eiichi's next startling experience occurred after he arrived in Europe. This was the fact that the feudal class system no longer existed there.
In Japan, daimyo and samurai (officials and soldiers) were considered superior in status to civilians such as merchants, farmers, and artisans.
Eiichi had long wanted to eliminate this class system. In Europe, he felt that his dream had already been realized based on this new approach called shareholder capitalism.
He felt this after an encounter with the King of Belgium and an interaction with a banker. I look forward to sharing that story with you next time.
To be continued in the next edition.
Stay tuned for the next AOTS E-Newsletter.
Rikio Suma, Author
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October 31, 2024
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<Index>
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
2. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
--------------------------------------------------------
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
--------------------------------------------------------
Applications for 8 courses have been opened! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!.
1) Program for South Asia [Language: English]
(1) The Program on New Business Creation for South Asia [SABC].
This newly established program is designed to deepen participants' understanding of entrepreneurship, examine possibilities for business creation, and design new businesses.
Duration: From 12 February to 26 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
2) Program for Vietnam [Language: Vietnamese]
(1) The Program on Problem Solving through AI & IoT for Vietnam [VNAI].
The program aims to enable participants to develop solutions to their own company's challenges by using AI and IoT.
In addition to lectures and company visits, participants will experience a hands-on technical exercise using an IoT sensor and AI modules.
Duration: From 13 February to 26 February 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
3) Program for Latin America [Language: Spanish]
(1) The Program on Organizational Revitalization for Latin America [LAOR].
In this program, the participants will understand and examine the attitude of leaders who promote organizational revitalization.
Duration: From 20 February to 5 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
4) Program for Thailand [Language: Thai]
(1) The Program on Family Business Management for Thailand [THFB].
In this program, participants will learn about characteristics of Japanese family businesses in terms of management methods and how Japanese long-established family businesses carry out human resource development and transfer skills to the next generation.
Duration: From 4 March to 17 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
5) Program for East Europe [Language: English]
(1) The Program on Innovation Management for East Europe [EEIM].
Participants will become capable of planning innovative new businesses by learning how to discover business opportunities, create new value, and formulate business models that are not bound by existing systems through lectures, exercises, and case studies of Japanese companies.
Duration: From 6 March to 19 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
6) Program for All Countries [Language: English]
(1) The Quality Control Training Course [QCTC].
Through hands-on exercises, company visits, and lectures, this course will deepen the participants' understanding of the proper way to promote TQM and quality management activities.
Duration: From 20 February to 7 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
(2) The Program for Quality Problem Solving [PQPS].
This program aims to strengthen and improve the problem-solving abilities of mainly managers, supervisors or engineers of companies, with a view to improving quality.
Duration: From 5 March to 18 March 2025.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
(3) The Program on Productivity Improvement Utilizing Creativity at the Gemba [PICG].
This is a newly developed training program. Participants learn manufacturing methods (5S, IE, Karakuri Kaizen*, etc.) that utilize the creativity of on-site (Gemba) employees and enhance their ability to identify and improve issues that promote higher productivity.
Many exercises using simulated production lines are incorporated to improve practical skills.
*Karakuri Kaizen is a registered trademark of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance.
Duration: From 11 March to 21 March 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: shouhei-au@aots.jp
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 - October 2024
In 1867, at the age of 27, Eiichi Shibusawa was dispatched to Europe for about a year and a half to handle general affairs and accounting for Japan's delegation at the Paris Exposition.
During that time, he observed various European countries, including France. What did he learn there?
At that time, Europe was right in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.
What interested Eiichi the most, however, was not steelworks and various other factories or cutting-edge technology such as urban infrastructure (railways, water and sewer systems, etc.)-surprisingly, it was the social structure and the systems for managing those countries' economies.
His first startling experience happened during the journey to France.
He boarded a steam train for the first time on a route that traversed 600 km from Suez to Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea.
From the window, he witnessed excavation work on the Suez Canal, which was then under construction.
He couldn't believe his ears when he heard that this project, one of the biggest of the century, was being undertaken through the efforts of private enterprise.
This was the shareholder company system, which pursued projects through the efforts of the people, developing a plan and collecting capital from many sources.
In Japan at that time, it was standard practice for a project of this kind to be driven by masters who monopolized the wealth, with the people simply following orders.
In this case, however, people who supported this visionary project contributed money to it, and if it was successful, the profits would be distributed to the investors.
Eiichi believed that Japan should study this approach as an economic model for the nation's future development.
After that, it was his philosophy that in order to serve the public interest, projects should be managed by collecting capital and recruiting personnel from a wide range of people, including ordinary, unknown citizens.
I hope that participants who visit Japan through AOTS's programs will study not just its advanced technologies and systems but also make an effort to understand the philosophy and social background underlying its success.
Eiichi's next startling experience occurred after he arrived in Europe. This was the fact that the feudal class system no longer existed there.
In Japan, daimyo and samurai (officials and soldiers) were considered superior in status to civilians such as merchants, farmers, and artisans.
Eiichi had long wanted to eliminate this class system. In Europe, he felt that his dream had already been realized based on this new approach called shareholder capitalism.
He felt this after an encounter with the King of Belgium and an interaction with a banker. I look forward to sharing that story with you next time.
To be continued in the next edition.
Stay tuned for the next AOTS E-Newsletter.
Rikio Suma, Author
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Copyright 2016 The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships, 30-1, Senju-Azuma 1-chome, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-8534, JAPAN