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.
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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.
AI is great at speeding up processes, generating deeper insights, reducing costs, and increasing sales. So say dozens of interviewees from twenty countries and multiple companies, according to our ongoing research. But this isn’t actually news—areas and industries all around the world are already leveraging AI with great results.
On a grander scale, localized implementations in manufacturing, healthcare, and infrastructure could have sweeping positive impact. Instead of building new roads to reduce traffic, for example, we could use AI to coordinate private and public transport routes on existing roads, saving time and construction costs.
But before we can move ahead with change, we have to get people onboard. Data suggest that to create an AI-positive mindset in the greater population, investing shouldn’t just target R&D—it should target learning, too. China, the country leading the charge towards an AI-friendly future, has set a goal for 100% of school children to become competent in computer science by 2025.
COVID-19 has increased the need for us all to internalize the value of AI, and luckily, global institutions are catching on. The worldwide need for recovery has accelerated investments in AI everywhere. But it won’t be a quick switch.
Here are three things that all of us—investors, institutions, and laymen alike—need to understand about AI to leverage its evolution.
Tech Takes Time
Though technology has a reputation for speed and acceleration, technological breakthroughs take decades to make a difference to the aggregate economy. Cars started appearing at the turn of the century, but it would be years before complementary investments such as asphalt roads, traffic lights, and mechanics gave value to the motor industry.
What does this equate to when we’re talking about AI in 2020?
In the same way that cars benefitted from roads and mechanics, AI will need infrastructure and data scientists. But that’s not all.
Consider that AI is fed by data in the same way a car is fed by refined oil. That means we need data, zillions of data from multiple sources, all refined in the same format. Complementarity creates coordination of the ecosystem. The data generated by economic indicators, patent registration, career consultants, and even innovation courses at business schools must be collected, analyzed, and shared.
The more people who invest in AI, the quicker AI will evolve, and the sooner we can put it to use out there in the world.
Variety Is Everything
A coordinated ecosystem for AI depends on varied data, but variety in data sources is vastly helpful, as well. That is to say, we need different people investing in AI in different ways.
We need both private and public investments—as per cars, we need private gas stations as much as public roads. For AI, that equates to private organizational capital for platforms or sensors that collect data, as well as public physical capital from institutions to define cooperation standards and promote insights.
Without variety, we’ll end up with biased data, and that would do more harm than good in the long run.
Distribute Far and Fairly
Even with time and varied data, a fair distribution of resources and capabilities to develop AI (and the eventual product of that development) is absolutely necessary. For that, we need coordination.
Any transition that involves millions of people has to be coordinated—from investment to implementation—between private entities and governments. Overlooking or trivializing this aspect of AI implementation could have serious repercussions. This is already being proven by the AI Economist, a Salesforce research project unveiled in April 2020 that applies machine learning to economic models. Researchers are well aware of how marginalized groups will be difficult for hyper-rational AI to understand due to the simple fact that those groups are in the minority. There is even a concern that AI may sacrifice them for what it may perceive to be the greater good.
In short, machines cannot interpret data or distribute AI benefits fairly on their own. For AI to best serve everyone, everyone must be involved from early stage development to aggregate implementation.
Bottom Line: Put Empathy to Work
As much as we know that AI can make a huge impact on society, we also know that humans are required to develop and maintain it. AI doesn’t have empathy, and it can’t interpret data.
Fortunately, people are very good at that.
If we have patience, ensure varied data, and coordinate to assure the fair distribution of resources, the world will be primed to reap the benefits of AI throughout the pandemic and beyond. While it may seem like a lot of work lies ahead, we already have working models for technological innovation. The three-pronged technology-strategy-psychology model, for one, will help ensure we keep a balanced view as AI develops. We also have a model for implementation based on three axes: industry-spanning research, complex system thinking, and powerful decision making.
With all the negative changes COVID-19 has brought, data show that motivation is high for transformation. Now is the moment to leverage AI through global coordination and education.