Transcript Building International Linkages

Building International Linkages
How to establish a partnership
with your local
“international”company in your
community
Toshi Amino
Executive Vice President (Retired)
Honda of America
How to find “International” companies in
your local community?
Contact to
 State Economic Development Department
 Chamber of Commerce
In case of Japanese company
 Japanese Embassy or Consulate General
 Japan-America Society
 Japanese Business Organization
Important Elements for Establishing the
Linkage
Know about them before you visit.
Some home works will be helpful.
2 Think about long range relationship
Be patient
Don’t expect overnight result
3 “Give and take” strategy
“What can I do for them?”
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In general each company want to be good
corporate citizens
Their questions
“How can we connect ourselves with
local community?
(Your name “Community college” is
helpful)
Visit them to tell about your idea to
connect them with your local
community through you.
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Prepare you ideas
(What can I do for you?)
Training program to develop their
professional skill
 Associate degree for their employees
 Internship for your students at their
facilities
 Your students as a problem solving
project team
 (In case of Japan-based company)
ESL program for Japanese employees and
their families and non-English speaking
employees
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What are you looking for?
Funding for your research
 Information to prepare your
teaching material (Case study)
 “On the spot, hands-on” type
education for your students
 Joint projects
 Speakers for your class
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Funding
Be specific and concrete proposal
 Show your efforts to obtain money from
other funding sources
 Not too much amount, be realistic
 Potential donor might ask you “What is
the benefit for us?”
 Understand company philosophy or value
(It is the worst timing for funding due to a
severe economic crisis)
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Information for your
teaching
Cross-cultural management
American and Japanese work
together. How do they overcome
various cross-cultural issues
 Local operation of MNC
 International business transactions
Logistic, Currency fluctuation etc
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Joint Projects
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Process improvements
A Filing system
B Production flow
C Warehouse management
D Training for employees
Speakers for your class
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They can talk about
A Cross-cultural issues they face in
daily operation
(For example:Japan-based company)
B Business trip to foreign countries,
“What did they experienced?”
C Differences of business practices
U.S. v.s. Other countries
Foreign manager who is working
for U. S. subsidiary can talk
Their cultural shock in U.S.
 Their life in America with family
 How do they observe American
business practices?
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Thank you for your listening
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Any question?
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My email address
[email protected]