2. Shizenkan University Overview
Graduate School of Leadership & Innovation, Shizenkan University
Major: Design & Leadership for Societal Innovation
Degree: Master of Business Administration
Capacity: 80 students
Part-time
program:
Classes on weekday nights and Saturdays (occasionally on Sundays
and holidays)
Course
Duration:
2 ( 0 )2 0
Enrollment: August 20th 2019
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3. Concerted
Learning
Self-Reflection
Learning
Bird’s Eye
Learning
Whole-Person” (Liberal Arts)
Management (B D I)
(workshops on Interpersonal Skills)
Management (BP)
Reflection and Feedback Papers
Competency Self-Assessment/Peer Coaching
Speech
&
Business
Plan
Individual Project
(Seminar Workshop)
Mentoring
My vision
Speech
First Year Second Year
Autumn semester Spring semester Autumn semester Spring semester
Overview of Shizenkan’s
20 Months Program
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4. Learning Outcomes:
Looking Back at the Entire Program
During their second year, students will concentrate on
individual projects (seminar-style workshops) :
The outcomes:
• As a manager / entrepreneur
To prepare a business plan to attract the supporters
• As a leader
To prepare a speech to gain empathy from the stakeholders
Bird’s Eye
Learning
Speech
&
Business
Plan
Individual Project
(Seminar Workshop)
Mentoring
My vision
Speech
First Year Second Year
Autumn semester Spring semester Autumn semester Spring semester
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5. Get a Key to Yourself through
Introspective Study
Confronting Yourself for 20 months to answer the
questions:
Who am I? What will I do as leader?
First Year Second Year
Autumn semester Spring semester Autumn semester Spring semester
Self-Reflection
Learning
Reflection and Feedback Papers
Competency Self-Assessment/Peer Coaching
the “Weft” of Warp and Weft
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8. Challenge of Being a Leader
Expand Your Horizon through the Liberal Arts
Take a Higher Vantage Point
See a Bigger Picture
Concerted
Learning
Whole-Person” (Liberal Arts)
Management (B D I)
Leadership
(workshops on Interpersonal Skills)
Management (BP)
First Year Second Year
Autumn semester Spring semester Autumn semester Spring semester
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9. The Questions to Be Posed
D'ou venons-nous? Que Sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we heading?
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10. The Liberal Arts to Broaden
Your Perspective
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
Individual
Company
Community / Society / Country
Socio-economic System
the World / Humanity 10
11. Liberal Arts Courses
• What is a Company for? - Exploring the Relationship between
Business Enterprises, Markets and Society
• Modern Western Philosophy, Capitalism and the Future of Human Existence
• Comparative Sociology of Religion:
Diversity of Social Structures and Ethics from the Perspectives of Major Religions
• Social Systems Theory and the Future of Human Existence
• Science and Technology Innovation and the Future of Human Existence
• Eastern Philosophy and Leadership
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13. Develop your Skills through
Concerted Learning
Even when you know what you want to do and what
you have to do, you still need skills and abilities to
realize it.
Concerted
Learning
Whole-Person” (Liberal Arts)
Management (B D I)
Leadership
(workshops on Interpersonal Skills)
Management (BP)
First Year Second Year
Autumn semester Spring semester ( Autumn semester Spring semester
B + D + I
(B-School) (D-School) (I-School)
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15. Analysis for Environment Systems
Analysis for
Environment
Systems
Understand external environment
Understand drivers of change and gain insight into the future
Identify opportunities and threats
Courses:
• Systems Thinking and the Sustainability Challenge
• Future Perspectives: Methods and Practices
• AI and Digital Literacy
• Science, Technology, Innovation and the Future of Human Existence
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17. Understand environmental changes and
identify opportunities and challenges
Find and identify customers
Clarify the value / consider the mechanism of value provision
Sublimate it into a business model / form its recognition and create
markets
Courses
• An Introduction to Design Thinking 1
• Applied Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving 2
• Marketing and Innovation for New Market Creation
Business
Planning
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19. Understand environmental changes and
identify opportunities and challenges
Get deeper into numbers, adjust to numbers and ensure sustainable domination
Procure necessary funds / Determine profitability (risk / return)
Courses
• Financial Analysis and Levers for Managerial Control
• Market Principles and Corporate Finance Strategic
Management
Verifying
Vision
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21. Understand environmental changes and
identify opportunities and challenges
Express your vision, get approval and
cooperation
Develop teams, organizations
Move and nurture people
Courses
• The Art of Communicating a Vision and
• Leadership in Transformation and Innovation
• Managing People and Organizations
• Group Workshop (Leadership to face and move people)
Picturing Process
to Realize
Concept
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22. Integrate from the viewpoint of an
entrepreneur
Think and take a challenge as an entrepreneur
Courses
• Business Policy
• Creating a Business Plan
• Entrepreneurship
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