In December, two member reps from each CI group met for breakfast and brainstorming on the New Year. We discussed our guidelines, processes, new members, topics and speakers worth inviting to share.
In January, we will kick off the CEO Insights meetings with an executive summary of what was discussed in that meeting and continue with a bit more of a customer CI brainstorm. We will discuss plans for our group as well as topics that we will be covering in the new year and into 2018.
Don’t miss this chance to catch up with fellow CEO members and set the course for our future together.

The meeting
Date– Tuesday, 10 Jan 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

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, 9 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

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– Thursday, 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

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, 6 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

At the September Sayonara Summer BBQ on top of Azabu Gardens, Spencer Wolfe was very surprise. At the opening of the casual meeting, Spencer Wolfe was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by the CI members.

Since it’s founding in 2004, Wolfe has filtered many speakers, helped with new membership recommendations, build annual schedules, organize venues and large events, as well as do with day job at AINEO Networks.

It was a very pleasant surprise and a reminder of how it is important to show appreciation to each other and our teams.

Thank you for appreciating the CI Network!

It’s rare that the CEO gets a chance to compare notes with other c-levels in their industry or even other businesses both greater and smaller. The CEO needs to be the visionary that sets the tone for the whole team. Any CEO that says she or he has no internal issues is usually hiding something. The power CEO identifies the issues and figures out a way to do things better.

As we bring 2016 to a close, we will take advantage of the experience and mental power in the CI meeting. Our focus will be on what the CEO needs to do for planning the future of the firm. We plan to discuss
• How to set and implement realistic budgets
• Setting corporate sales, service, and production targets
• The big R- Resources, Resources, Resources!

Although, we will focus on planning. Other areas that may up are executive privilege, making the most of real estate, and corporate security.

Looking forward to seeing you at CI as we plan for explosive growth!

Date– Tuesday, 15 Nov 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

Things no longer flow as they used to. Just one look at politics around the world will shows the CEO can’t just do business as usual. Businesses are no longer built on R&D, sales, and production. Successful companies of our generation take an idea that simplifies life for people and are able to turn that into a business that can make money. In many cases a business idea may not make any money at all, but draw in investment from people who have bought on to the idea itself. CEOs cannot be asleep at the wheel, we must always be moving because what sells today could be easily take over tomorrow by someone with a great idea working out of a garage. Once a company gets mass and momentum, there is more infrastructure and team that needs to be supported. Innovation is essential to the longevity of that company, but innovation is a moving target.

Rather than being clobbered by the weight of change and business waves, the November CEO Insights lunch CEOs will be talking about how to ride the wave of business change and innovation. Some of the planned topics to be covered will be
-Communicating with the team
-Finding the next business that harmonies with your strengths
-Protecting your innovation
-Knowing when to invest and when to cut your losses

This interactive CEO lunch will bring together top business insights to help you ride the wave of change.

Date– Thursday, 10 November 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

When the earthquake, tsunamis, and nuclear meltdowns of 2011 hit Japan the leadership skills of the CEO were evident. Great leadership led while weak leadership buckled and bailed. Life is waves of ups and downs, but it is possible to have more high points than disasters. Being prepared for natural disasters, regulatory changes, human resource challenges, cyber attacks, corporate espionage and nearly anything that can come at us is mostly about being ready. Readiness comes because we’ve given thought to an area of our business. As the CEO, we are expected to lead our companies into success.

In the November CEO Insights meeting, bosses will have the chance to hear about issues that other businesses have had and how the CEO was able to keep it together. We’ll be covering HR, technology, logistic, legal, and other challenges in this interactive exchange.

Date– Friday, 11 November 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

Join leading Japan-based CEOs for a night of networking and discussions with the theme “Looking Inside”.  A biannual invitation event, the CEO Insights Forum (CIF) is Tokyo’s gathering of the top brass of of the world’s leading brands.

In the November, in addition to great networking, we will have Mr Ben Rowse, MD Nardello & Co. speaking on “The Nexus Between Politics and Business”.  Japanese companies operating overseas have learned the hard way that they are not immune from the long arm of US law enforcement. High profile investigations into Marubeni and Hitachi among others have awoken Japan Inc. to the reputational, legal and financial costs of non-compliance.

Also speaking, will be our own CI member, Mr. Harry Hill.  Mr. Hill and his partner Robert Roche founded Oak Lawn Marketing, a media company, which was acquired by Japan mega-company NTT Docomo in 2009.  Flowing with the CIF theme, Mr. Hill be focusing on the CEO’s need to “Look Inside” from the standpoint of a entrepreneur as well as a the CEO of a large Japanese organization.

The meeting will be moderated by Mr. Ross Rowbury, President of Edelman Japan, and will give you insights from c-level peers, great food, and networking at the top of Roppongi Hills. See a report of the Spring CIF here.

Date-
Thursday, 17 November 2016
7:00PM-8:30PM (Soft closing with drinks until 9PM)
Cost- 9,990 yen
Registration Deadline- 11 Nov

Venue-
Roppongi Hills Club- Roppongi Hills Club- the star bar & the study
51 fl. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 106-6151 Japan

*We want to keep things simple. If your company needs a paper invoice and would like to pay via bank transfer, please drop us a line. Otherwise you can easily register and pay via credit card below. No cancellations after 15 Nov.

Sign up here via our online registration. We will be focusing on the event that evening therefore invoices and payments will be completed prior to event day.

**The CEO Insights Forum is a focus group of c-level (CEO, CFO, COO..) executives of leading firms.
CIF brings together bosses of retail, industrial, consumer products, high tech, media, hospitality, real estate, and other areas under one roof. We look forward to seeing you at the Fall event. Please sign-up online or if you have questions please have your PA contact Ms. Imai (in Japanese) at 03-4550-6500.

Years ago, we heard the term multimedia for nearly everything. It was a buzzword that has disappeared but using multiple media in presenting, entertainment, teaching, and other areas is here to stay. Recently, we hear a lot about the Internet of Things or IoT. The concept that all these devices will interconnect via the network. Although, the term IoT may or may not be with us 10 years from now. The interconnection of devices is definitely here to stay.

The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud and IoT means that systems of machines will be able to interact with human beings, learn about them and better adapt to their needs. How these new cyber-physical systems are transforming human behavior and companies’ business models is the topic of the C3 meeting of October. CI is pleased to welcome Mr. Amit Ranjan, EY Advisory Innovation and Digital Business Leader in Japan. Mr. Ranjan will share on successful implementations of IoT in different fields and industries. The discussion will be open and give CI members a chance to share views and opinions on the role of top management to instill innovation in the organizations and drive the technological change towards to new frontiers.

Date– Tuesday, 18 October 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

More On Mr. Ranjan-
Amit Ranjan has been working for 17 years in Japan with an extensive experience in the Techno-Functional environment in big organizations and currently a partner at Ernst and Young Japan. He has recently been a speaker at the CEATEC 2016 Conference in Tokyo.