[Call for Participants] Dentsu Consulting Inc. Webinar: "What Are the Requirements for Organizations to Sustainably Generate Innovation? How a Healthy Sense of Urgency Born from 'Questions' from the Future Transforms Organizations ~ Key Points and Practical Examples of Organizational Transformation" - July 26

Dentsu Consulting Inc. is recruiting participants for its webinar "What Are the Requirements for Organizations to Sustainably Generate Innovation? How a Healthy Sense of Urgency Born from 'Questions' from the Future Transforms Organizations: Key Points and Practical Examples of Organizational Transformation," to be held on Friday, July 26.

Regarding the challenges of fostering innovation and new ventures within organizations, we hear the following sentiments from those responsible:
"We want to create the necessary mechanisms for employees to actively engage in new ventures."
"We're struggling to get management and business units on board when promoting new ventures."
"We lack clear criteria and processes for deciding when to invest in or withdraw from new ventures."

This webinar will introduce the conditions for fostering innovation-friendly organizations and provide actionable hints—starting with the most essential steps—to those responsible for new ventures who keenly feel the difficulty of getting them off the ground.

[Overview]
Date & Time: Friday, July 26, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cost: Free
Format: Zoom Webinar
Capacity: First 100 registrants (advance registration required)
*Participation by competitors may be declined.

■Click here for registration and seminar details

【Program】

Part 1: The Dynamics of Driving Innovation and New Ventures Within Organizations
・The structural challenges of fostering innovation and new ventures within organizations and the virtuous cycle we aim to build
・The fundamental significance of companies pursuing innovation and new ventures

Part 2: Innovation Creation and Corporate Culture
・Corporate culture and individual mindset are key to driving innovation
・Transforming Mindset into Innovative Action

Part 3: A Healthy Sense of Urgency Born from "Questions from the Future" Transforms Organizations
・The Nature of Business and Organizations in VUCA's Unstable Era
・Methods for Translating "Questions from the Future" Generated by Dentsu Inc.'s Future Mandala into Business and Organizational Planning

Part 4: Innovation Organization Maturity Assessment and Transformation Approach
・Introduction to Innovation Organization Maturity Assessment
・Case Studies and Project Approaches for Reforming into an Innovation Organization

*Please note that the content is subject to change.

【Speaker Profile】

, Head of Growth & HR, Business Transformation Division 2, Dentsu Inc. Masashi Koyama
Since joining the company, he has been involved in developing branding strategies from the perspectives of various stakeholders surrounding the company—including consumers, shareholders, media, and employees—as well as planning and implementing internal communications to recreate corporate value. From 2018, as Director of the Public Relations Bureau, he was also responsible for formulating the company's brand strategy and corporate culture transformation. He transferred to Dentsu Inc. Business Design Square (now the Business Transformation Bureau) in 2021 and holds his current position.

Principal, Business Promotion Group, Dentsu Consulting Inc.
Fukushima, Kei
After working at a major consulting firm, he assumed his current position. He specializes in areas including establishing frameworks for new business launches, business transformation, and DX; formulating and executing organizational strategies; enhancing talent strategies and HR functions to realize management strategies; and supporting human capital management. Recognizing that organizational and talent aspects are often the primary bottlenecks in fundamental transformations like new business launches and DX, he leads integrated design and execution support at Dentsu Consulting Inc. to ensure that business strategy and talent strategy remain aligned.

Principal, Business Promotion Group, Dentsu Consulting Inc.
Takuya Kagata
After working in Dentsu Inc.'s Marketing Division and Dentsu Digital Inc., currently supports corporate business design at Dentsu Consulting Inc., including an insurer's 2050 vision, an automaker's smart city concept, and a food company's new ventures. Specializes in consulting leveraging an urban engineering background and facilitation that breaks down silos. Captain of the Dentsu Sumo Club. Right-handed. Signature move: left-handed throw.

Manager, Business Promotion Group, Dentsu Consulting Inc.
Ryouka Yamamoto
Engaged in long-term vision formulation and branding strategy development/execution within corporate management planning departments. At a major consulting firm, provided broad support for corporate transformation originating from HR and organizational functions, including realizing management and business strategies, talent strategies contributing to employees, talent management, advanced restructuring of organizational functions, business reform utilizing technology, professionalization of corporate personnel, and change management. After joining Dentsu Consulting Inc., she also engaged in new business domains, providing seamless, end-to-end support from business strategy conception and new venture launch to the establishment and implementation of organizational and human resource frameworks.