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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.
What is the definition of AI? I always wanted to ask an AI researcher this question. My chance finally came when I interviewed Mr. Kenichi Suzuki, the director of GAiMERi, an AI Research Division of GLOBIS.
Introducing AI: More than Machine Learning?
“AI basically refers to an algorithm,” Mr. Suzuki said. According to him, AI can be interpreted as a part of software. But, he added, “when the business media uses it, they usually refer to machine learning in general.”
The simplicity of the definition struck me. Algorithms were originally applied in technology development by computer scientists trying to achieve pattern recognition, so that when similar problems arose, the scientists were better able to solve them. This technology has grown into AI, which can do just that.
A Story of Scope and Speed
The discipline of AI has evolved in fascinating ways over the past decade. As Mr. Suzuki pointed out, although machine learning is what most people think of as AI, the concept is way bigger than this. But perhaps the most impressive thing is not AI’s scope, but its speed. Neural networks, speech processing, computer vision, robotics—these and many other disciplines have seen explosive growth in the past decade
If we were to draw parallels between AI and information technology, we’d see that it took decades longer for IT to go from its infancy to its business applications. With AI, multiple developments seem to be happening simultaneously. Was there a reason? A difference?
The answer was open innovation. As Mr. Suzuki explained, “With open innovation, most things are shared. For example, coding and academic papers. In the past, if I wanted to access academic papers, I had to access them through a society, which usually sold the paper. So it was not so easy to get the latest information.”
He went on, “Now, as soon as papers are written and published, they are posted on websites.
Anyone can get access to the latest papers. And within several days or weeks, someone will kind of code them and share the code on the internet.
In the past, there were so many obstacles and limitations to access knowledge. But now, everything is open. That has helped a lot to accelerate innovation in the field.”
The power of sharing and collaboration has really played a key part in the evolution of AI technology. Open innovation has helped many other technologies, as well, such as blockchain and IoT. As much as that has helped with innovation, should we be concerned about having such powerful technology growing at such an explosive rate?
The Possibilities and Limitations of the Non-Human
“My concern,” Mr. Suzuki said, “is that people’s expectations are too high. AI cannot live up to them, and I’m afraid that people will be disappointed. Of course, AI will be applied to many fields, so I’m sure you will see many applications in the coming years.”
Where AI will fail, it seems, is in intellectual capabilities. While the applications of AI are limitless, there does exist an inherent cap on the technology.
Thinking about the form this cap might take, the first thing that flashed in my to mind was consciousness or sentience—the state of being self-aware. I asked Mr. Suzuki if he thought AI would ever overcome this limitation and become self-aware, as we define the term.
“I am not sure,” he admitted. “There are so many things we do not know about consciousness itself. AI might or it might not achieve it.”
His curiosity was clearly piqued, however. “It would be exciting, but I don’t think we have that kind of technology at hand. There is still a long way to go. Of course, in the coming years, there might be some genius who brings artificial intelligence to life.”
Essentially, the possibility can’t be ruled out. Unlike other technologies, AI’s potential is not confined to just assist us.
Having been exposed to various technologies, and having majored in physics, I have seen a wide array of concepts in nature that humans have mastered through ingenuity, creating value for society. However, out of all of our technologies, only AI has the possibility of becoming more than a tool, perhaps even becoming equal to humanity. Machines have already replaced a variety of low-value jobs, but with the progress of machine learning concepts such as GAN and creative AI, it seems it’s somehow becoming more difficult to predict the form that AI will take alongside humanity.