Recently, I participated in the Vabel Confrence this afternoon at the GRIPS, an event organized by Haegwan Kim, CEO of Vabel, a nonprofit organization. It turned out to be a very interesting conference with interesting group of speakers and Q& A session. I trust it was Ustreamed and some may have watched. My regret was that I missed the first presentation by Mr. Fumio Nanjo, director of Mori Art Museum. I took over the second speaker role as there was a bit of technical problem for the presentation by the second speaker, Chiaki Hayashi.
I talked about the job crisis and how we are trying to resolve by promoting the Global Mobility of Talent. As I wanted to make it relevant to the audience (majority are young students and business people, it seemed), I asked them to do something to get ready for the era of global mobility of talent. I will be working on building the mechanism and knowledge bank of good examples while in Davos and onward.
Presentation by William Saito on Entrepreneurship spoke on team development, a requirement for entrepreneurs and his advice to the young people. Next was the presentation by Kiyoshi Kurokawa. Last, but not least, was presentation by Ken Mogi who is worth listening to and learning more about.
Yoko Ishikura is a Professor at Hitotsubashi University ICS in the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy in Japan. She has held positions as a professor at the School of International Politics, Economics and Business of Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, as a consultant at McKinsey and Company Inc. Japan and a visiting professor at Darden School.
Professor Ishikura is a consultant to a number of multinational companies and has been a frequent speaker at management conferences, seminars, and workshops throughout the world. She was a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee for the Japanese government and the International Competitiveness Commission for METI. She is currently a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum.
She is the author of Strategic Shift from OR choices to AND paradigm, Building Core Skills of Organization , and the co-author of the following publications: Managing Diversity in the 21st Century, Strategy for Cluster Initiatives in Japan , and Building a Career to the World Class Professionals – all in Japanese. Her books in English include: Asian Advantage, Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management and Trust and Antitrust in Asian Business Alliances.
Professor Ishikura’s current research interests are focused on global competition, innovation, and knowledge management. She received her BA from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan; MBA from Darden School, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; and DBA from Harvard Business School.
