In Japan with HEC DBS (MNT) Blog

We'll meet Japanese companies!

2006-11-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

We are planning to meet several Internet and new technology companies during our trip in Japan... Please find bellow the list of companies we'll meet, it'll be updated regulary :

Today we just start to contact companies, so the list bellow is only composed of companies we would like to meet in Japan :

Others are coming soon...
We'll try to negociate to set up video interviews with those companies and publish it on the blog. If you can help us, please feel free to contact us (even if can't too :) )!

Antoine's testimony : "Living in Japan"

2006-11-27T05:16:00.000-08:00

Hello folks,

As some of you know, I spent 1 year in Japan (sept'04-august'05) in an exchange program with my school. I was studying mainly economics and the japanese language. If you want to check some of my pictures taken in Tokyo and Kyoto, you cand find them here. You can also read some of my articles I wrote when I was in Japan there. There is not a lot of articles, but it might give you an idea of how it is to live in such a country. I'll try to post a new article to give you good ideas of restaurants and hotels for our trip in Japan.

-Stay tuned-

[French article] Improve your company's organisation : think like a Samuraï

2006-11-26T08:21:00.000-08:00

(Lu dans Management Décembre 2006)
"A Tokyo, il existe des restaurants traditionnels interdits aux étrangers. Pas seulement aux Occidentaux, mais à toute personne qui ne serait pas introduite par un vieil habitué. Discrimination? Pas du tout. Les chefs craignent simplement de mal servir un hôte dont ils ne connaissent pas les gouts et donc de perdre la face... Ce souci du client poussé à son paroxysme est l'un des traits de la culture japonaise. Est-il possible de s'en inspirer pour améliorer l'organisation de nos entreprises.

Pierre Fayard, professeur à l'université de Poitiers et fin connaisseur de l'archipel, nous dévoile les arcanes du fonctionnement des firmes nippones les plus performantes. A grand renfort de témoignages, il révèle notamment la façon dont les connaissances y sont produites et transmises. Et donne des pistes pour adapter les pratiques des meilleures de ces entreprises aux réalités du monde occidental. Un ouvrage aussi dépaysant qu'enrichissant."

Tokyo's Map

2006-11-25T03:51:00.000-08:00

Another map, just like the one for Kyoto, to help locating Tokyo and its districts in the Japan.

For more information, go to :

. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/tokyo/index.html
. http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au

The red thingamabobs locate seisms :)

Kyoto's Map

2006-11-25T03:42:00.000-08:00

To help everyone to locate precisely Kyoto and its different districts, here is a little map.

For more information, go to :
. http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/index.html
. http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au

The red thingamabobs locate seisms :)

Discover Kyoto!

2006-11-23T16:34:00.000-08:00

Here will be the things we (HEC students) schedule to do in Kyoto.
We'll be updated it frequently.

Post your comments to suggest what you want to do, visit...

Build our experience in Tokyo

2006-11-23T10:39:00.000-08:00

Here will be the things we (HEC students) schedule to do in Tokyo.
We'll be updated it frequently.

Post your comments to suggest what you want to do, visit...

Our Lens : Discover JAPAN

2006-11-22T11:45:00.001-08:00

There were 3 main destinations for our student trip :

. United States
. Brazil
. Japan

We finally choosed Japan because it's a huge opportunity to discover a country (130 millions inhabitants) that we really don't know until now. Also because 42% of internet users will be asian in 2010. 9% of them are Japanese currently...

Differences between France & Japan are so important, we've lot to learn there, lot of great cities to discover but more traditional places too...

We plan to meet several companies during our trip wich is scheduled in May 2007. The list will be posted soon... If we can we'll interview New technologies and Internet japanese business owners, an InterNetView but specialised on Japanese actors...

Source: World Bank, CIA Factbook(2005), Jupiter Research (2006), PWC (2005), Computer Industry Almanac (2006) and Internal Estimates

Maps of Japan :

provided by Yahoo! Locals maps:

MS HEC Digital Business Strategy

2006-11-20T07:16:00.000-08:00

We are currently students of the HEC Paris Master degree in Digital Business strategy in partnership with TELECOM Paris.

An alliance between two benchmark institutions
Our Specialized Masters in Digital Business Strategy is the product of an alliance between HEC and Télécom Paris. Each of these two institutions is a benchmark in its own field: HEC amongst France’s elite management schools; and Télécom Paris amongst the country’s leading engineering schools. HEC and Télécom Paris have decided to combine their competencies to offer a management training programme geared towards innovation management and the enhancement of companies’ integration of information technology.

Information technologies affect all management functions
In an economy that is increasingly based on intellectual added value and the provision of services (i.e., data processing and relationship management), the past decade has seen a great change in managerial practices. All corporate functions, regardless of the sector of activity, have had to integrate a technological dimension: Purchasing and Logistics, with e-procurement and supply chain management; Production, with ERP and shared information systems; Human resources, with Intranet applications; Marketing, with e-commerce, on-line communications and CRM; Sales, with its multi-channel issues, automated sales forces, etc.
In and of itself, technology is not a finality. Instead, it is a lever for raising productivity and cutting costs, enhancing and enriching employees’ jobs, developing sales and customer service and encouraging innovation throughout a firm. Beyond information systems’ technical dimension, the main issue for companies is in fact managers’ utilisation of information technology.

Providing students with double competencies wich companies are looking for :
Although firms already possess management and information system competencies, what they need and are looking for nowadays are high potential recruits capable of speaking both the language of management and the language of technology. Such individuals will be able to manage innovation and integrate new technology into their managerial practices. The purpose of the HEC-Télécom Paris programme is to face this challenge by training managers who can combine a twofold competency based on their:
mastery over supervisory issues, something that will enable them to join one of the main corporate functions (Strategy, Project management, Marketing, Sales, Purchasing, Finance, Human resources, etc.)
knowledge of information technology issues, potential and tools, which they can then integrate into organisational policies so as to build up a portfolio of modern management practices.

Understanding, sharing & implementation :
The entire HEC-Télécom Paris Masters programme has been designed to accelerate participants’ professional development by concentrating a whole set of knowledge and know-how over a short period of time:
learning (understanding) cover areas such as business administration, technology, innovation management and managerial use of information technology
outside the classroom, training will be grounded at every stage in intensive exchanges (sharing) with the business world, enabling students to witness real events and understand corporate practices in France and abroad (the 2003 cohort went on a May study trip to Boston where it was received by MIT’s Digital Business Strategy Track)
lastly, knowledge is applied (implementation) via a teaching orientation that mainly revolves around case studies, with the entire cohort spending two weeks (one at the beginning of the course and another at the end) working full-time on a problem that a company has submitted. In addition, the cohort works part-time for more than 3 months under the supervision of a professional consulting mission. Finally, at the end of the programme participants undertake a paid work experience, something that often leads to recruitment by the host company.

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