Leading High Performing Remote Teams
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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
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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.
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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.
When Amazon started in 1994, there were many skeptics of online stores. After all, production companies such as GM and Ford in CNN Money’s Fortune 500 ruled business. What’s more, Amazon barely waited to internationalize online, entering the UK and Germany in 1998. Ten years later, it rose into the top ten Fortune 500, taking 8th place while GM dropped to 10th.
In short, Amazon successfully used an online platform to go global.
But Amazon was an e-commerce venture from the start. Can physical companies successfully open global locations without actually “going” global? Is traveling to the destination necessary, or can companies do everything from afar?
6 Major Factors Influenced by Physical Reassignment and Business Travel
Finance
Business Traveler tells us that in 2017 companies spent $45 billion on project-based business travel alone. Cutting down on travel, then, can help businesses relocate considerable funds elsewhere.
But what if a company needs staff overseas for onsite inspections or project works such as installation?
For necessary in-country staff, why not consider outsourcing? American Express suggests this as a go-to cost saver for small businesses. If the same work can be done for less (20–30% less according to classicinformatics) why not?
There are plenty of global projects that include tech teams from India, finance managers from Germany, project managers from the USA, and a final execution team in Japan. The whole group never meets in person, but all the puzzle pieces fit together virtually. It requires discipline and delivery from all ends, but it works. And not once is global travel required.
Increased Productivity and Health
Internationalizing a company online has productivity benefits, too. According to the Harvard Business Review, employees may actually have fewer health problems if they don’t travel. Additionally, business can continue despite weather conditions (or a pandemic) that might interfere with travel, and the dreaded jet lag could be avoided altogether.
Communication
Let’s face it, there are some situations where you cannot get the big picture without being on the ground. In a lot of ways, meeting face-to-face simply makes communication easier. Even a simple text can easily be misread. Everyone has their own thought process, sense of logic, and communication style, so when you don’t meet face-to-face, there are fewer opportunities to correct potentially disastrous miscommunications.
Not to mention the durability of relationships over long distances. How many of us are guilty of losing contact with someone when they live far away? Surprisingly, technology isn’t a guaranteed solution to this. For example, even though physical distance doesn’t affect the functionality of social networks, a research paper in Social Networks reveals that Twitter users prefer to connect to those within driving distance.
Business Relationships
Brian Uzzi’s study of social structure and competition shows that executives or managers making friends with each other leads to higher exchange of sensitive information. This not only helps companies mutually gain a competitive edge, but also increases cooperativeness between the relevant parties.
Travel management company Trondent Development Corp. reports that 70% of travelers say building business relationships over video is difficult, and 91% say they would prefer to make a deal in person.
Ultimately, the data says shaking someone’s hand and having a meal to discuss a deal creates an edge over online alternatives.
Employee Satisfaction
Business travel is a perk. In fact, a study by Booking.com reveals that 30% of people would accept a lower salary if it meant they could do more business travel. Removing this perk might dull a once-glamorous job, or even deter applicants.
Of course, if companies save money by cutting travel, they can always reallocate it elsewhere. Just look at Netflix’s unlimited parental leave policy, Facebook’s free housing for interns, or the infamous Google, which has a long list of enviable employment advantages.
The question remains: can businesses successfully go global without “going” global?
It’s entirely possible to internationalize a company online with our current technology, though it will come with some big compromises along the way. Does this mean companies would be more successful globalizing by going global, even in today’s difficult global climate?
It depends.
Uber created a shuttle service without owning any vehicles. Airbnb made a lodging business without owning any property. We live in an era of disruption, where turning industries on their heads seems to work…within the right market, and with the right compensation for compromises.
In the case of internationalization, the key factor will be making up for lost human interaction.