Consortium – a place where new knowledge emerges
The research activities of gathering management topics and images by specialists from each sphere, researching them from various viewpoints and transmitting information are the basis of Nuture Networks’ philosophy and knowledge. Being in partnership with the Innovation Research Center at Hitotsubashi University and Nikkei newspaper publishing company, having the assistance of the Biomedical Collegium and Professor Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University and the cooperation of specialists from different areas of the industrial world, Nuture Networks has been conducting the “Emergence-style POWER UP Consortium”, where the ideas of co-creation and emergence, as well as the methods of work style management are researched.
Methods for creating value are in the process of changing as organizations are growing. Creation of value is achieved not by one part of the company, but has changed to a process, where people and organizations inside and outside the company, including customers, network, mutually influence each other and co-create value.
As for the new development of people and organizations, no more can it be accomplished by the already established simple top-down instruction execution style, but a value co-creation, emergence-style management is necessary, where bottom-up and top-down style are combined. In the “Emergence-style POWER UP Consortium” in order to achieve new organizational growth, methods for value co-creation and emergence-style management are researched.
- Sharing awareness about strategy formulation, execution and reformation of people /organization in a business environment, which is getting more open, complex and difficult to predict changes
- Research development about methods of co-creation and emergence as a learning process in the organization’s strategy formulation and execution
- Research development of methods for reformation of people and organization from emerging and co-creational perspective
- Research about the best practices (best practice and its methods of practice) of value co-creation, combining bottom-up and top-down style, emergence-style value co-creation and emergence-style management
- Recommendations about the best form of Japanese organization and people in the age of value co-creation and emergence-style management
We have received the assistance of Professor Kanji Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University and with research members from representative Japanese companies, we are operating a Consortium, called Emergence-style POWER UP Consortium, related to value co-creation and emergence-style management.
- Advisor: Mr. Kanji Ueda, Chief of Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University
- Executive Secretary: Mr. Takada Kouhei, former Executive Director of SEKISUI SEIKEI Ltd
- Co-managers:
• Mr. Takumi Endo, President of CareerRise Corporation
• Mr. Jun Arai, Bridgestone Corporation, New Business Implementation BU
• Mr. Minako Shibazaki, Marketing Headquarters, FUJITSU LIMITED
• Mr. Hirozaki Tsuchiya, Nikkei Business Publications,Inc , editor-in-chief
- Members of the Consortium: 22 companies, about 30 people
| 1st round | Kick Off Orientation |
| Guest Lecturer | Professor Kanji Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University |
| Outline |
Definitions of emergence and co-creation that are most important to POWER UP Lecture about the possibility of application in the area of social sciences |
| 2nd round | Management Reforms starting on the scene① |
| Guest Lecturer | Mr. Koji Ooe, Vice-president of human resources development department at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. |
| Outline |
Lecture about the essence of Ghosn’s reformation at Nissan by utilizing CFT Exchange of opinions about the primary causes of the battered conditions of Japanese job sites and ways to reform them |
| 3rd round | Management Reforms starting on the scene② |
| Guest Lecturer | Mr. Shuuzo Murai, senior consultant at Hewlett-Packard Japan |
| Outline |
Lecture about the sound field reformation, which HP Japan promotes, while accepting the never-ending waves of organizational restructuring, resulting from the effect of M&A and global competition Discussion about the ways in which field reformation should be conducted taking hints from the lecture |
| 4th round | Start-up business and development of new products① |
| Guest Lecturer | Mr. Keigo Yoshida, executive officer of Co-creation Forum ( Honda Motor Company, Ltd.) |
| Outline |
Lecture about value co-creation management at Honda; Discussion about the contemporary problems making the creation of new businesses and development of new products in Japanese companies increasingly difficult |
| 5th round | Start-up business and development of new products② |
| Guest Lecturer | Mr. Takeshi Mori, a journalist and author of" Google・Amazon-ka suru shakai" |
| Outline |
Lecture about the leading edge of emergence-style business Exchange of opinion about the practical methods of emergence- style/co-creation-style management, taking hints from the lecture |
| 6th round | What will change in the Japanese company with emergence-style management |
| Guest Lecturer |
Mr. Yoshihiko Fuchibe, Partner Attorney at TMI Associates Professor Kanji Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University |
| Outline | Lecture about the latest research results in emergence/ co-creation and beneficial suggestions and advice about how to use it in business administration |
| ■Leading Lecture ： | Toru Takahashi, President of Nuture Networks |
| ■Keynote Lecture： | Professor Kanji Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University |
| Mr. Yoshikazu Tanaka, Doctor of Science, Head of R&D Promotion Department, Botanical Research Institute at Suntory Limited | |
| ■Panel Discusion |
• Professor Kanji Ueda from the Artificial Engineering Research Center at Tokyo University • Mr. Ikuo Takahashi , Assistant Manager at Steel Pipes Design Planning Department, Sumitomo Metal Industries • Mr. Michitaka Takeshita, Head of Conductive Materials and Chemical Products Division, Bridgestone Corporation • Mr. Yoshinobu Machida, Deputy Chief Researcher and group leader at Manufacturing and Process Development Laboratory, Kao Corporation |
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The main content of the lecture is described at the web site of Nikkei Business Publications, bp special “POWER UP Japan” at http://premium.nikkeibp.co.jp/powerup . |
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