Change is something we all face in any industry or business and how we lead our companies through it will determine our survival. 

Content – How we consume it is rapidly changing!  People consuming content in totally different ways than before. Understanding the consumer and the marketplace in the wonderful world of media and content in Japan.  

In 2001, Home Entertainment, DVD & Blu-ray sales, overtook theatrical as Hollywood’s primary revenue stream.  New emerging distribution is on-demand streaming and Digital HD.  The business is rapidly evolving, toward a digital distribution model, but if you look at the numbers you’ll find the total amount of money consumers are spending on bringing movies and TV shows into their homes and mobile devices has remained remarkably solid, The numbers show a continued slide away from traditional packaged-media sales and rentals into their digital equivalents, Digital HD sales and on-demand streaming.  Home Entertainment is alive and thriving = more and more eyeballs are watching farting cat videos on YouTube or “liking” some status update on Facebook, but content is still being consumed, on demand, as heavily as it ever was.

In May’s CI luncheon get insights into the evolving consumer and how other companies and media businesses are dealing with it.

Date– Friday, 15 May 2015 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

With Japan’s declining population, shrinking work force, and production going abroad, Japan has a multipronged pitchfork coming it’s direction for future economic growth.

Despite two painful “lost decades,” Japan remains the third-largest economy and the fourth-leading exporter in the world. It is a nation with advanced technological know-how, a formidable manufacturing base, world-class infrastructure, and a large and affluent consumer market. This is a rare combination of strengths—and yet the world remains pessimistic about Japan’s prospects for growth and reinvention.

In May’s CEO Insights Luncheon, Georges Desvaux, boss of McKinsey Japan will be sharing McKinsey perspectives on the future of the Japanese economy.   This is something that the authorities and a handful of key executives have been discussing.  We are pleased to include CEO Insights members in this very important discussion and to be a part of the thought leadership for the future of the market and the nation.

Date– Thursday, 14 May 2015 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

Free economies are clearly the place for any business or corporation to make an extra effort succeed.  However some global markets are extremely regulated while others are very loose.  Japan is no exception to having heavy rules and regulatory in some areas and looser management in others.  Business leaders must understand the marketplace and specifically the legal implications that affect the business as well as the clients.

In the April CEO Insights meeting, CI members will get a chance to meet with one of Japan’sforeign lawyers practicing in the country.  CI welcomes Jean-Denis Marx, a partner with Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) who will share his insights in a different format.  We will have a “legal sampler” in areas that are important if not essential for bosses trading in Japan to understand.  Although, it will be a very open discussion, we plan to discuss the latest legal considerations that will affect your business in 2015.  Some areas planned are

• Data leakage: what can be learned from the Benesse leak
• Diversity in the workplace, not what you think it is: upcoming changes in labor law
• Screaming trademarks: changes in trademark law that may affect your brand
• Selling on the internet: will general terms and conditions really become valid?

Date– Friday, 10 April 2014 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

• Demographic Changes
• Changing Global Workforces
• New Global Industrial Order
• The Changing Consumer Landscape

SPECIAL CI – JOINT EVENT- Visiting CEO From Germany.

Dr. Christoph Walther, CEO and founder of CNC – Communications & Networking Consulting AG, will be visiting Japan in March briefly.  We have been able to get time out of his busy itinerary to join CI to share enlightening insights on recent European and global corporate communication trends over lunch.  CNC has been advising on some of the largest global M&A deals over the last decade. Mr. Walther himself was Head of Communications at Daimler during the take-overs of Chrysler and Mitsubishi Motors.

CNC is a strategic communications advisory firms, headquartered in Munich/London, with an international network of 11 offices across eight countries, delivering high-end consultancy to management teams in the industry, politics, the financial world and the media. Since, 2012, CNC is part of Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s largest communication corporations. Publicis competes with US-based WPP and Omnicom.