Leading High Performing Remote Teams
How can leaders ensure that performance remains high in remote or hybrid-work environments?
Content Marketing
In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
Want to expand overseas? The CAGE distance framework can help ensure you're constructing a solid global strategy in four areas: cultural, administrative, economic, and geographic. Learn how to leverage useful differences between countries, identify potential obstacles, and achieve global business success.
Servant Leadership
There's more to leadership than driving a team to profit. In fact, there's a word for looking beyond self-interest to prioritize individual growth: servant leadership. Try this course for a quick breakdown of what that is, how it works, and how it can lead to organizational success.
Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
Japanese companies have unique cultural, communication, and operational challenges. But they also have values that have led to remarkable longevity. Check out this seminar to hear how these values help earn trust from overseas head offices and develop employees.
Marketing: Reaching Your Target
Every company works hard to get its products into the hands of customers. Are you doing everything you can to compete? In this course, you’ll find a winning formula to turn a product idea into real sales. Follow along through the fundamentals of the marketing mix and see how companies successfully bring products to market.
Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
Want to compare your performance vs. a competitor? Or evaluate a potential vendor? Then you'll need to conduct a financial analysis. This course will teach you how to use three financial statements and evaluate financial performance in terms of profitability, efficiency, soundness, growth, and overall strength.
Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
Career anchors are based on your values, desires, motivations, and abilities. They are the immovable parts of your professional self-image that guide you throughout your career journey.
Try this short GLOBIS Unlimited course to identify which of the eight career anchors is yours!
Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
Machines and devices are getting smarter. They’re beginning to communicate with each other. It’s a revolution—the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to be exact.
Machines today are capable of printing objects in 3D. They can take care of our comfort, schedule their own maintenance, and even manage our household—smart LEDs light bulbs connect to the internet and use integrated sensors to achieve 100% lighting for the user while generating energy savings of 90%.
Could Thomas Edison ever have imagined that light bulbs would one day be intelligent enough to communicate? Could any of us, really, foreseen the possibilities of Industry 4.0?
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Technology’s Evolution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Forget Edison—would Satoshi Tajiri, the far more modern developer of Pokémon in 1989, have imagined that Pikachu would be capable of getting 45 million people a day out onto the streets in July 2016? Or that the evolution of his game would lead to Pokémon GO, which interacts with each player in a customized, geolocated fashion? Not to mention the trillions of pieces of data Pokemon GO gathers about players in real time, which is then used to build new products, services, and business models.
We are at the doors of what the World Economic Forum refers to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by so-called cyber-physical systems supported by IoT, AI, and sensors incorporated into all sorts of devices. Every day, the media reports on smart cities, self-driving cars, smart factories, wearables, smart health-fitness systems . . . The list of smart things goes on, and many are well within reach. Our tiny smartphones are a million times faster than all the computers NASA used to put Man on the Moon in 1969—combined.
Ours are not the first minds to be boggled by such advances.
The First Industrial Revolution
In 1784, the appearance of steam engines seemed to be the work of the Devil. People then didn’t realize they were living through what would later be referred to as the First Industrial Revolution. It took them time to understand that new technologies made way for new businesses that were capable of creating new welfare and wealth in society.
The Second Industrial Revolution
A century later, in 1870, their successors would have similar feelings when electricity brought light and warmth to the dark and cold. Arc streetlamps made roads safer. Mass-produced cars replaced horses. The economy accelerated.
The Second Industrial Revolution was at hand.
The Third Industrial Revolution
As a child in 1969, I had no idea that pressing play on my compact audio player made me part of the Third Industrial Revolution. The development of electronics, computers, and just-in-time manufacturing was allowing more people to enjoy a better quality of life and entertainment without leaving their houses.
This Third Industrial Revolution was the enabler of the historic Japanese economic miracle, in which Japan became the world leader in the electronics industry and the second largest economy in the world. The US, meanwhile, opted for computers and information technologies, and has been leader of the world’s economy ever since.
And here we are again.
Human and Machine Learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
People-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication is changing everything, creating a world in which machines learn from each other. This new world is full of opportunities, but also risks: opportunities that we need to harness, and risks that will need to be mitigated—the sooner, the better.
Opportunities of this Fourth Industrial Revolution mean new business models and designs in products, services, and operations. This is what governments, businesses, and consultants refer to as Industry 4.0.
According to consulting firm McKinsey, IoT will have an economic impact of 11.1 trillion US dollars in 2025. Cisco, the networking equipment corporation, forecasts that in 2020, 50 billion IoT smart devices will be connected during the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
These days, barely 1% of the data available is actually used. Most of what we have goes to alarm and control systems. Within a few years, it will be possible to convert 40% of available data into information for real-time management, optimization, forecasting, and machine learning.
IoT and emerging technologies represent competitive advantages (that is, added value) for businesses. Exponential advantages.
In the face of this approaching paradigm change, business schools are obliged to train both entrepreneurs and executives who will lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are responsible. Not just in power—responsible.
We are responsible for helping the business world visualize this complex maze of technologies in order to draw up strategic growth plans with sustainable competitive advantages. But we must also help minimize the risks inherent to every change. People are at the center of these new applications, as they should be, and their business strategies should drive the development and implementation of emerging technologies—something we refer to as Strategy 4.0.