2016 Jan C20 The World Of Gaisho

With the influx of more and more international tourists, there are more people thinking they understand Japan, it’s culture, and it’s way of doing business.  However, there are many areas that people cannot see.  Not just the locals, but even the long term international residents.

In the January CI meeting, Ecco’s Japan CEO will introduce us to the Japanese world of the Gaisho.  What is the Gaisho?  Gaisho are the high end clientele of Japan.   Gaisho clientele are invisible to the average person, but they are a very high spending, pampered customer for many of Japan’s famous retail outlets.  Specifically, they are very engaged by department stores.  Their existence is not just a important market, but reveals things about Japan that the c-level must understand.

Date– Friday, 15 January 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- Roppongi Hills Club- La Cucina Restaurant (Italian)
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

2016 Jan G3 -How Japan Sees Finance & Banking And How It Affects Your Business

Global financial firms have had mixed results in Asia.  Specifically, they’ve been in Japan for some time but had varying levels of success.  There are some American credit card businesses that have their second largest global market outside of the US in Japan.  Japan is a crown jewel.  There are other banks that have failed miserably because they couldn’t get a handle on how to manage themselves or work with Japan’s regulatory bodies.

In the 2016 kick off of CEO Insights G3, we’ll be diving right into the topic that is likely very guarded, money.  Specifically we’ll be talking how Japan sees Western, as well as other Asian, banking and finance.  We’ll be welcome guest expert Yoshio Kitazawa.

Mr. Kitazawa spent 28 years in banking as the head of a major American bank.  Following that time, he served as Senior Advisor to the IBA (International Bankers Association of Japan) working with the BOJ, the PM’s cabinet, and several other non-governmental bodies in Japan.  He founded his own company in 2005 called BCP Corporation selling cloud-based business continuity systems.  You will leave very enlightened on Japan and finance, from a local perspective.

Date– Tuesday, 12 January 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- Roppongi Hills Club- La Cucina Restaurant (Italian)
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

2016 Calendar For C8 Group

We’re expecting another fantastic year for CEO Insights in 2016.  Please see the draft schedule for the C8 group.  C8 is the original group with the longest standing member CEOs, originally limited to 8 bosses.  Although there is little variance, occasionally times, locations, dates may  change.  Please watch this website for most recent posts.  You can find the draft schedule here.

CEO Insights 2016 Schedule C8

**CEO Insights meetings are an invitation only event for qualified c-levels (unless otherwise stated).

2016 Calendar For CI Group C20

We’re expecting another fantastic year for CEO Insights in 2016.  Please see the draft schedule for the C20 group.  Although there is little variance, occasionally times, locations, dates may  change.  Please watch this website for most recent posts.  You can find the draft schedule here.

CEO Insights 2016 Schedule C20

**CEO Insights meetings are an invitation only event for qualified c-levels (unless otherwise stated).

2016 Calendar For CI Group 3 (G3)

We’re expecting another fantastic year for CEO Insights in 2016.  Please see the draft schedule for Group 3.  Although there is little variance, times, locations, dates may possibly change.  Please watch this website for most recent posts.  You can find the draft schedule here.

CEO Insights 2016 Schedule G3

**CEO Insights meetings are an invitation only event for qualified c-levels (unless otherwise stated).

Changes In 2016 for CEO Insights

It’s been a wonderful 11 years of running CI. Who would have thought that this would have become such an important c-level network, source or insights, and even advice for top leaders?  We’ve been organizing this at AINEO and enjoying the run.  It been all volunteer with me, my assistant, and a couple of your assistants from time to time.

As announced in early December 2016, I was thinking I better move on so we could focus on our business.  People didn’t like that idea, and it was suggested by a couple members that we really should cover the administrative and organizing work with an annual membership fee of some sort.  When I asked membership via email, the response was overwhelming and I was very encouraged to see people not only enjoying the group, and helping run the monthly meetings, but also willing to pitch in to cover the work that we do in the background.

I am always looking for topics and areas that CEOs need to know about.  There is a lot of vetting speakers, developing topics, organizing venues, helping with the introduction of new CEOs (and the replacement of members who aren’t engaged), arranging Global CEO special visits, and various other work associated with keeping the high standards since the founding of our group.

It does take a bit to organize CI, but frankly there is no other organization that even compares to the level and quality of CEO INSIGHTS.  CI is good because of you!  Thanks for all your teamwork in making the group unmatched.

I am very thankful to continue to develop and enhance the group and look forward to making it a group of even more influence in the coming years.

Thank you for supporting CEO Insights!

 

Spencer Wolfe

Organizer,  CEO Insights (AINEO Networks)

2015 Dec C20 Year End Wrap Up – Better Boss, Better Business

As yet another year closes, many executive offices are reviewing what worked and what didn’t, what sold and what didn’t,  what blew up and what overflowed.  In addition to national responsibility, many of our member CEOs have other countries in Asia as well as Australia/New Zealand reporting to them.  Growth is about reflecting on management mistakes as well as building management successes.

The December CEO Insights meetings is one of the most popular and well attended meetings as executives get ready for the Christmas holidays and year’s end.  This will be likely be your last chance to rub elbows with Asia’s top Tokyo-based CEOs and leadership.

The meeting
Date– Friday, 11 Dec 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- Roppongi Hills Club- La Cucina Restaurant (Italian)
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

2015 Dec G3 Year End Wrap Up – Better Boss, Better Business

As yet another year closes, many executive offices are reviewing what worked and what didn’t, what sold and what didn’t,  what blew up and what overflowed.  In addition to national responsibility, many of our member CEOs have other countries in Asia as well as Australia/New Zealand reporting to them.  Growth is about reflecting on management mistakes as well as building management successes.

The December CEO Insights meetings is one of the most popular and well attended meetings as executives get ready for the Christmas holidays and year’s end.  This will be likely be your last chance to rub elbows with Asia’s top Tokyo-based CEOs and leadership.

The meeting
Date– Tuesday, 8 Dec 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- Roppongi Hills Club- La Cucina Restaurant (Italian)
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

2015 Nov G3 Keeping The CEO’s Executive Edge

CEOs are all faced with the challenges of satisfying our day-day customers and achieving (short-term) financial objectives to keep our stake-holders happy.  However, the world continues to evolve, change.  Bosses all know that those that do not adapt and those that do not look for the trends and respond accordingly, unfortunately, fall into irrelevancy.  C-levels intuitively know we need to look to the future to maintain our leadership positions, however, the actuality is that some keep the edge much better then others
What works for you? How do you find the balance?  Organizationally, how do you balance long-term (mid-term) planning with the day-to-day?  Do you have specific annual processes that work that can be shared with others?  Who does it?  How do you do it?  Does it work? …or is it a waste of time? With so much responsibility, no boss has mastered everything.  This month’s CEO Insights is all about insights.
What metrics do you or areas do you focus in your planning:  Financial, structure (organization), innovation, looking at competition, threats, opportunities, and much more.  At this month’s CEO Insights meeting, you will have an invaluable opportunity to see inside companies outside of yours.
Date– Tuesday, 10 November 2015 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- La Cucina
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

2015 Nov C8 Keeping The CEO’s Executive Edge

CEOs are all faced with the challenges of satisfying our day-day customers and achieving (short-term) financial objectives to keep our stake-holders happy.  However, the world continues to evolve, change.  Bosses all know that those that do not adapt and those that do not look for the trends and respond accordingly, unfortunately, fall into irrelevancy.  C-levels intuitively know we need to look to the future to maintain our leadership positions, however, the actuality is that some keep the edge much better then others
What works for you? How do you find the balance?  Organizationally, how do you balance long-term (mid-term) planning with the day-to-day?  Do you have specific annual processes that work that can be shared with others?  Who does it?  How do you do it?  Does it work? …or is it a waste of time? With so much responsibility, no boss has mastered everything.  This month’s CEO Insights is all about insights.
What metrics do you or areas do you focus in your planning:  Financial, structure (organization), innovation, looking at competition, threats, opportunities, and much more.  At this month’s CEO Insights meeting, you will have an invaluable opportunity to see inside companies outside of yours.
Date– Thursday, 12 November 2015 1230PM-1400PM
Venue–
Roppongi Hills Club- Salon (French)
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan