Updated Feb. 26, 2019
On Friday, February 22nd, Doshisha Business School's Global MBA Program held our first event in the Doshisha/ACCJ Essential Skills for Leaders in 2030 Seminar Series at Doshisha Osaka Satellite Campus. We were extremely honored to have Mr. Kei Shimada, Leader of IBM's Digital Makers Lab share his insights on "intrapreneurship," and why this is such a critical skill for tomorrow's leaders to develop.
Mr. Shimada stressed a number of key practices that today's executives can begin doing immediately in order to improve their own intrapreneurship skills as well as those of others on their team.
He stressed that many executives are good at short-term planning, but intrapreneurs create short, medium and long-term goals and constantly monitor their effectiveness across each of these in order to succeed. Rather than simply trying to implement PDCA, working across short, medium, and long-term goals is fundamental to sustainable success.
Second, he also suggested that especially for Japanese executives, just speaking English won't get you anywhere. In addition to speaking a language beyond your native tongue, he strongly suggested that true intrapreneurs seek out new people and new environments where people will teach them things that they didn't know. While comfort zones make us feel comfortable, the need for new products and services requires new perspectives, so Mr. Shimada also suggested that success hinges on getting out of that comfort zone and pushing beyond existing mental limitations.
Next, he suggested that many new products and services never really needed to be made, because people really don't need them. To be a successful intrapreneur requires a future leader to go find things that people really need and to find problems that truly need solving, rather than just making something new because one can.
Mr. Shimada went on to highlight a number of other key skills and capabilities that tomorrow's leaders should consider cultivating today, and ended his lecture with an overview of some of the new projects and technologies that he and his lab are developing through collaboration with entrepreneurs around the world.
Towards the end of the event, Mr. Shimada and Doshisha Business School's Prof. Philip Sugai, held a short discussion in which they explored ways that MBA programs could better integrate more opportunities for developing intrapreneurship skills, and the types of opportunities or experiences that would be most suitable for today's MBA students to work on developing during their studies. The event concluded with a Q&A session between attendees and Mr. Shimada.
This series will now shift to Kyoto on April 13th, where we are honored to invite Mr. Kenshin Fujiwara, CEO of Hacarus to speak about a different essential skill for Leaders in 2030: promoting a positive company culture. (Find more information about this event here.)
On behalf of Doshisha Business School, we'd like to extend our warmest thanks and appreciation to Mr. Kei Shimada for spending so much time to share his ideas and insights in this first speaker series event, and to our colleagues at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) for helping us to organize and promote this event.
Mr. Shimada stressed a number of key practices that today's executives can begin doing immediately in order to improve their own intrapreneurship skills as well as those of others on their team.
He stressed that many executives are good at short-term planning, but intrapreneurs create short, medium and long-term goals and constantly monitor their effectiveness across each of these in order to succeed. Rather than simply trying to implement PDCA, working across short, medium, and long-term goals is fundamental to sustainable success.
Second, he also suggested that especially for Japanese executives, just speaking English won't get you anywhere. In addition to speaking a language beyond your native tongue, he strongly suggested that true intrapreneurs seek out new people and new environments where people will teach them things that they didn't know. While comfort zones make us feel comfortable, the need for new products and services requires new perspectives, so Mr. Shimada also suggested that success hinges on getting out of that comfort zone and pushing beyond existing mental limitations.
Next, he suggested that many new products and services never really needed to be made, because people really don't need them. To be a successful intrapreneur requires a future leader to go find things that people really need and to find problems that truly need solving, rather than just making something new because one can.
Mr. Shimada went on to highlight a number of other key skills and capabilities that tomorrow's leaders should consider cultivating today, and ended his lecture with an overview of some of the new projects and technologies that he and his lab are developing through collaboration with entrepreneurs around the world.
Towards the end of the event, Mr. Shimada and Doshisha Business School's Prof. Philip Sugai, held a short discussion in which they explored ways that MBA programs could better integrate more opportunities for developing intrapreneurship skills, and the types of opportunities or experiences that would be most suitable for today's MBA students to work on developing during their studies. The event concluded with a Q&A session between attendees and Mr. Shimada.
This series will now shift to Kyoto on April 13th, where we are honored to invite Mr. Kenshin Fujiwara, CEO of Hacarus to speak about a different essential skill for Leaders in 2030: promoting a positive company culture. (Find more information about this event here.)
On behalf of Doshisha Business School, we'd like to extend our warmest thanks and appreciation to Mr. Kei Shimada for spending so much time to share his ideas and insights in this first speaker series event, and to our colleagues at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) for helping us to organize and promote this event.
Mr. Kei Shimada and Prof. Philip Sugai (Essential Skills for Leaders in 2030: Intrapreneurship)
On Friday, February 22nd, Doshisha Business School's Global MBA Program held our first event in the Doshisha/ACCJ Essential Skills for Leaders in 2030 Seminar Series at Doshisha Osaka Satellite Campus. We were extremely honored to have Mr. Kei Shimada, Leader of IBM's Digital Makers Lab share his insights on "intrapreneurship," and why this is such a critical skill for tomorrow's leaders to develop.
Mr. Shimada stressed a number of key practices that today's executives can begin doing immediately in order to improve their own intrapreneurship skills as well as those of others on their team.
He stressed that many executives are good at short-term planning, but intrapreneurs create short, medium and long-term goals and constantly monitor their effectiveness across each of these in order to succeed. Rather than simply trying to implement PDCA, working across short, medium, and long-term goals is fundamental to sustainable success.
Second, he also suggested that especially for Japanese executives, just speaking English won't get you anywhere. In addition to speaking a language beyond your native tongue, he strongly suggested that true intrapreneurs seek out new people and new environments where people will teach them things that they didn't know. While comfort zones make us feel comfortable, the need for new products and services requires new perspectives, so Mr. Shimada also suggested that success hinges on getting out of that comfort zone and pushing beyond existing mental limitations.
Next, he suggested that many new products and services never really needed to be made, because people really don't need them. To be a successful intrapreneur requires a future leader to go find things that people really need and to find problems that truly need solving, rather than just making something new because one can.
Mr. Shimada went on to highlight a number of other key skills and capabilities that tomorrow's leaders should consider cultivating today, and ended his lecture with an overview of some of the new projects and technologies that he and his lab are developing through collaboration with entrepreneurs around the world.
Towards the end of the event, Mr. Shimada and Doshisha Business School's Prof. Philip Sugai, held a short discussion in which they explored ways that MBA programs could better integrate more opportunities for developing intrapreneurship skills, and the types of opportunities or experiences that would be most suitable for today's MBA students to work on developing during their studies. The event concluded with a Q&A session between attendees and Mr. Shimada.
This series will now shift to Kyoto on April 13th, where we are honored to invite Mr. Kenshin Fujiwara, CEO of Hacarus to speak about a different essential skill for Leaders in 2030: promoting a positive company culture. (Find more information about this event here.)
On behalf of Doshisha Business School, we'd like to extend our warmest thanks and appreciation to Mr. Kei Shimada for spending so much time to share his ideas and insights in this first speaker series event, and to our colleagues at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) for helping us to organize and promote this event.
Mr. Shimada stressed a number of key practices that today's executives can begin doing immediately in order to improve their own intrapreneurship skills as well as those of others on their team.
He stressed that many executives are good at short-term planning, but intrapreneurs create short, medium and long-term goals and constantly monitor their effectiveness across each of these in order to succeed. Rather than simply trying to implement PDCA, working across short, medium, and long-term goals is fundamental to sustainable success.
Second, he also suggested that especially for Japanese executives, just speaking English won't get you anywhere. In addition to speaking a language beyond your native tongue, he strongly suggested that true intrapreneurs seek out new people and new environments where people will teach them things that they didn't know. While comfort zones make us feel comfortable, the need for new products and services requires new perspectives, so Mr. Shimada also suggested that success hinges on getting out of that comfort zone and pushing beyond existing mental limitations.
Next, he suggested that many new products and services never really needed to be made, because people really don't need them. To be a successful intrapreneur requires a future leader to go find things that people really need and to find problems that truly need solving, rather than just making something new because one can.
Mr. Shimada went on to highlight a number of other key skills and capabilities that tomorrow's leaders should consider cultivating today, and ended his lecture with an overview of some of the new projects and technologies that he and his lab are developing through collaboration with entrepreneurs around the world.
Towards the end of the event, Mr. Shimada and Doshisha Business School's Prof. Philip Sugai, held a short discussion in which they explored ways that MBA programs could better integrate more opportunities for developing intrapreneurship skills, and the types of opportunities or experiences that would be most suitable for today's MBA students to work on developing during their studies. The event concluded with a Q&A session between attendees and Mr. Shimada.
This series will now shift to Kyoto on April 13th, where we are honored to invite Mr. Kenshin Fujiwara, CEO of Hacarus to speak about a different essential skill for Leaders in 2030: promoting a positive company culture. (Find more information about this event here.)
On behalf of Doshisha Business School, we'd like to extend our warmest thanks and appreciation to Mr. Kei Shimada for spending so much time to share his ideas and insights in this first speaker series event, and to our colleagues at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) for helping us to organize and promote this event.
