Changes in the Rules of Work Driven by IT Advances AI Summary

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Senior Researcher, Cybozu-Labo, Inc.

Specified Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Director, General Incorporated Association MUTOH

NISHIO Hirokazu

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1: Introduction

IT advances are changing the rules of how we work.

Class notes are now digital and shared in real time.

With a shrinking population, time is running short and efficiency is needed.

Japan is a country with advanced issues. It faces a declining birthrate and an aging population first and foremost.

2: Demographic change

Population pyramid shows a large decrease in the population in their 20s in the future

Population of 20-somethings will decrease by about 15% in the 15 years from 2015 to 2030.

Six people will do the work of seven people, requiring a 17% efficiency improvement

A 17% increase in workload per person would require an hour of overtime each day or cutting three days off per month.

Konosuke Matsushita said, "Working an hour less and achieving more than ever before is progress in the way we work."

Ingenuity is needed to achieve this.

3: Efficiency through AI and IT

AI is IT in substance and is already close at hand.

AI is just a buzzword; the substance is information processing technology (IT).

Miura City Agricultural Cooperative: Work that used to take 8 hours can now be done in 1 second

Automates the creation of delivery schedules for shipments with proprietary algorithms

Work that used to take even experienced staff 5~6 hours is completed in 1 second.

Losing your job to AI is not a bad thing. We can use our time for other jobs.

Reduced staff workload, free time for sales, etc.

4: Changes due to technological advances

A wheelchair that can go up the stairs would make the stairs barrier-free.

Example of alter-ego robot café: Enabling physically disabled people to serve customers

Greater scope for information sharing and a culture of openness and fairness

As information is shared, distrust of not sharing is created.

Computers don't forget because shared information doesn't disappear

Digital data can be both shared and kept confidential by setting access rights.

Minutes of management strategy meetings are now also shared.

Just restrict access to the parts that cannot be made public.

5: Changes in organizational structure

Increased information sharing leads to more decentralized decision making

It was the bottleneck that carried the information to management, who gathered the information and made the decisions.

Information sharing costs have dropped, so decision-making itself has become a bottleneck.

There has been a move to delegate decision-making authority to the field.

Creating a pluralistic organization that recognizes diverse work styles

Company and personal visions do not have to coincide. We can positively influence each other.

Recognizing 100 different ways of working for 100 different people

Cybozu case study: 100 people, 100 different ways to work. Flexibility to transfer after maternity leave.

Discussion ensued regarding transfer orders for employees returning from maternity leave.

Identical treatment is "equality," but adapting to individual needs is "happiness.

6: Review the rules of how you work.

Many of the rules for how we work are policy constraints set in the past

Companies that have been around for over 30 years are using old rules that were created back then.

Rules that do not fit the current situation should be changed. Let's find policy constraints.

Notice the expression "shall" in the conversation.

Consider whether it is a physical or policy constraint.

7: Issues in Japan

Chinese RoboCon "RoboMaster" Culture Makes Engineers Heroes

MVPs are awarded and animated.

Technical commentary will be given in between.

Japan Underestimates China Too Much

Low awareness in Japan that China is driving the global economy

Catchphrase: "Time is money, efficiency is life."

A hot topic in China.

summary

IT-based work style reforms are required.

Need to review policy constraints and improve efficiency

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