Business Improvement Training

A distinctive feature of the Japanese business culture－Business improvement

A word “Kaizen” has become common even overseas nowadays. You can tell that “business improvement” is one of the most distinctive features of Japanese business culture.
Japanese people always pursue better quality in every aspect such as procedures, process, quality of services and products, productivity, safety, leadership, etc. They never stop pursuing more improvement even though there is no malfunction or inconvenience.
Employees of foreign affiliates or multi-national companies from different cultures might feel unfamiliar with that kind of mindset that focuses on the process as well as the result. However, it is required of all organizations to improve the current business method to enhance the organizational power and increase benefits.

You can still improve business when the number of employees cannot be increased.

The environment surrounding Japanese companies has been drastically changing and increasingly becoming severer due to the diversification and globalization of business world. Many of those firms are required to accomplish works of higher quality to survive. We often hear from our clients that they have to carry out more tasks with the limited personnel without increasing manpower.

Under such a circumstance, we believe that “business improvement” enhances organizational power and efficiency to accomplish the required level of work with the limited number of manpower. Our business improvement training provides you the most effective approaches and skills to enhance organizational power with the limited number of employees.

The following three points are the focuses of this training:

■Think about business improvement in the training, away from your workplace.
It might be often the case that even though you think you would be able to increase efficiency with a little more effort, you actually make no extra effort with no time to spare as an excuse. Let’s think about “the little more effort” in the training together. The training will help you to make a specific business improvement plan.

■Learn methods of the business improvement
It might be difficult for you to make a business improvement plan when you can think about it only vaguely without any knowledge and skill.
Learn the proper methods of initiating business improvement and practice them on study cases that would happen in the actual workplace.

■Make sure to choose what you can continue practicing
Business improvement plans should vary according to each person. It is highly recommendable to choose a plan that you can start comparatively easily and carry on with low cost such as those regarding communication or clerical work. As for the term, basically about three months are desirable.

Our ultimate goal is that you keep practicing business improvement, motivated by the small improvement you initiated in the training.
We hope our training will provide you with good opportunities to make a greater improvement or to make an improvement on another topic on your own initiative.

How about learning the principle of business improvement in our business improvement training and producing an apparent result?

＜Process＞
Lecture　　What is business improvement?
　　　　　　　The procedure of business improvement
Exercise　　Identify problems in your organization from six perspectives.
Lecture, Exercise　　Analyze the current situation
Lecture　　Investigate the cause.
　　　　　　　Goal-setting
　　　　　　　Make countermeasure plans and carry them out.
　　　　　　　Check the effect.
Exercise　　Make a business improvement plan.