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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?
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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.
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CAGE Distance Framework
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Servant Leadership
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Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
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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
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Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
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Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
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What a difference a year can make!
When I attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January 2017, the mood was profoundly gloomy. The leavers had won the Brexit vote, and the anti-globalist Donald Trump was about to be sworn in as president. The two countries most responsible for building the postwar world order seemed to be turning their backs on it.
Was it scrapheap time for Davos? Apparently not!
Fast forward one year, and the forum again made plenty of news. Here are my 5 big takeaways from Davos 2018.
1) No major problems with the world economy
Brexit is already factored into the markets, and Donald Trump actually came to Davos to talk up American corporate tax cuts and booming stock prices. Indeed, such is the health of the world economy that the IMF is predicting global growth of 3.9% for both this and next year. The mood at Davos 2018 was the complete opposite of one year ago.
“Our biggest problem is a lack of problems to discuss,” one of the Global Economic Outlook panelists quipped brightly.
2) Women on the main stage
“Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World” was the theme of the conference this year. The issues embodied by the #MeToo movement—gender inequality and sexual harassment—definitely make up one fracture that is very much center stage right now. Here, the WEF is doing a good job leading by example: All seven of the forum’s co-chairs were women; many of the panelists were women; many of the issues discussed were women’s issues; and many prominent women leaders—from Christine Lagarde of the IMF to Ginni Rometty of IBM—spoke on the main stage.
3) Watch out for the new “Seven Sisters”
A major pivot this year was in perceptions of Big Tech. With the rise of fake news and a surge in the importance of data, the big internet firms have suddenly gone from being objects of admiration to objects of skepticism and mistrust. Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the world’s largest advertising group, even referred to the seven biggest Internet companies (Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Tencent) as the “Seven Sisters,” reviving the disparaging nickname for the seven firms that controlled the world’s oil supply until the 1973 oil crisis.
Like their Big Oil predecessors, the new Seven Sisters combine enormous financial muscle (all seven have market caps of over half a trillion dollars) with a perceived lack of moral compass (expressed in their indifference to privacy, eagerness to exploit data, and reluctance to control fake news). Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, argued that once companies get that big and that powerful, they need to be regulated, just as in any other industry. Big Tech firms cannot realistically expect to take all the benefits of monopoly while refusing to take any of the responsibilities.
Once upon a time, there was Big Oil, now there’s Big Tech—and a big regulatory pushback may be coming.
4) “Societal polarization” and lack of trust
From the heights of Silicon Valley to the rest of the world… What about the so-called “forgotten men and women”? Communications expert Richard Edelman spoke of “societal polarization” in his speech. The media has become the “least-trusted” global institution for the first time. People instead rely on social media, which tends to be unbalanced, biased, and subject to fake news. In the digital echo chamber, any sense of grievance is quickly amplified.
Many panelists could point to the various problems faced by the people left behind by globalization, but few of them seemed to have any viable real-world solutions. It’s easy enough to repeat mantras about “sustainable growth driven by inclusivity” and “lifelong learning,” but how does that translate into practice? If there is no trust in the media and government, there will be less of the mutual communication or understanding that have to be the foundation for any eventual solutions.
Edelman’s answer? “Every institution has to engage in public debates directly with end users so that facts can triumph over fear.”
5) If you want to create a shared future, it’s best to turn up
President Trump’s speech fell short of expectations. He just read off the teleprompter. There was little booing or applause. It wasn’t bad for anybodyーjust boring. He didn’t mention his anti-globalization or anti-climate change narratives, so overall I would give the speech positive marks.
This year, all the G7 leaders—Angela Merkel, Theresa May, and Emmanuel Macron among them—came to Davos. All except for one, that is. I am sorry to report that the one absentee was Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan!
The fact that Trump, who was originally so critical of Davos, showed up to beat the drum for the US proves that Davos is the ideal platform for promoting your country not just to other politicians, but to leaders in industry, finance, academia, the media, and the non-profit sector.
It is important for a leader like Shinzo Abe to be at Davos to play his part in creating a shared future in a fractured world.
Davos 2018 started with heavy snow and ended with bright sunshine. I hope that 2018 will continue to be as bright and sunny as Davos was.