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2022　Doctoral R&D and Business Strategies of Global Companies D

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Izumi Akira  Udagawa Atsushi  Ohshima Michiyo  Oku Taisuke  Okuyama Hitoshi  Kuriki Ken  Yoshiyama Noritoshi 
Class Format
Lecture    (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Wed7-8()  
Group
D
Course number
LAC.C663
Credits
1
Academic year
2022
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2022/9/20
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
English
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Course description and aims

This course provides classes by invited lecturers from managers and employees of Japanese subsidiaries of foreign affiliated companies in a variety of industries, on the business activities, approaches to business and R&D, philosophies, values, and business relationships between the overseas headquarters and the Japanese subsidiaries. The lecturers also talk about their career development to date, including why they chose the company.

The aim of this course is for students to find role models for their own future career development from the content of the classes, regardless of whether the lecturers' fields are related to the student's field of study or interest, and to find references and lessons from their own perspectives. In particular, the diversity of management in foreign-affiliated companies is expected to broaden the career perspectives of students. Therefore, it is important for students to actively ask questions to the lecturers and be motivated to utilize the classes for their own career development, not just to passively listen to the classes.

The name of this course is changed from "R&D Activities of Global Companies," which was offered in AY2021. Students who have already taken "R&D Activities of Global companies I" and "R&D Activities of Global companies II", which had been offered until AY2018, cannot take this course.

Student learning outcomes

By taking this course, students will acquire the following;
1)Understand what role the Japanese subsidiaries of foreign-affiliated companies play in business and R&D, and how they relate to their overseas headquarters.
2)Understand career paths in foreign-affiliated companies and how people working there, including the lecturers, are building their own careers.
3)Find role models as references and lessons, including 1) and 2) above, for students' future career development.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

✔ Applicable How instructors' work experience benefits the course
Managers and employees, who are at the forefront of companies that lead globally in various industries, introduce the philosophy, R&D and business of the company to which they belong based on their own experience, and how to build their own careers.

Keywords

Foreign-affiliated company, R&D, Global business, Career development

Competencies that will be developed

Specialist skills ✔ Intercultural skills ✔ Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Omnibus-style classes will be provided by lecturers from leading global companies from a variety of industries that employ engineering professionals in Japan.
This course is a real-time, interactive, and direct-teaching live course via ZOOM. Therefore, students are required to attend all classes in real time.

The following measures are taken to ensure the quality of the online course.
1.Use slides with examples and charts so that students can maintain their concentration.
2.Ask students to share their ideas by such means as actively using the voting function of ZOOM and setting a time for verbal or chat questions enable them to keep their concentration and better understand the ideas of other students in the classes.
3.Give an assignment to students in each class, and they are required to prepare and submit a report. The report assignment is designed for students to think about their own future career development based on the content of the class, so that the students will not only deeply understand the content, but also improve their report writing skills, and furthermore, the report can be used as a memorandum that can be reread in the future to help them build their careers.
4.Pick up the contents of the reports submitted by the students that would be helpful for them to share, and provide feedback to the students at a later date, with comments by the lecturers, if necessary, so that they can understand what other students who listened to the same classes thought, and thus obtain even deeper learning effects.

The order of classes may be changed or the content of classes may be altered.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 OHSHIMA Michiyo Head of Japan Portfolio and Project Management at Pfizer R&D Japan Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 2 OKU Taisuke R&D Director, Singapore Innovation Centre, P&G International Operations Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 3 KURIKI Ken Director of Innovation and Sustainability at DSM Japan Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 4 An electronics-related company (to be announced) Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 5 OKUYAMA Hitoshi Customer Chief Engineer, EV/PC Global Customer Team, Bosch Corporation Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 6 YOSHIYAMA Noritoshi Senior Manager, Advanced Technologies, Cloud & SW, CPSD, Lenovo Japan Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 7 UDAGAWA Atsushi Director, Japan Leader, Corporate R&D Operations, 3M Japan Innovation Limited Students understand the lecturers' experience and career paths to date, find what they consider valuable as role models toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.

Textbook(s)

None.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None.

Assessment criteria and methods

An assignment is given in each class and the students are required to submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each class on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.

Related courses

  • LAC.C601 ： Doctoral Career Design

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Classes are delivered in English, so students should have English language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
Students can write their reports in either English or Japanese.

Contact information (e-mail and phone)    Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).

E-mail ：iidpinfo[at]jim.titech.ac.jp
Tokyo Tech mail service No :S6-1

Other

The corresponding GA for this course is GA1D.

For a list of career development courses offered at Innovator and Inventor Development Platform(IIDP), please refer to the URL below.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/student-support/students/life/career-education)

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