Renewing organizational/personnel infrastructure neglected for over a decade
Toward organizational, personnel strategies to achieve management goals -

 

A.K

Why ABeam ?

A.K

At the Internet venture firm I joined upon graduation, I was working in sales, doing corporate marketing, and supporting recruiting activities.
As I accumulated experience in venture business, I began to feel like I wanted to be more systematic about learning the know-how and skills a businessperson needs to acquire. So I started working on a career change as a semi-recent college graduate.
With scant career experience, and no experience in the consultant's profession, I decided to join ABeam because it appealed to me as having a culture of nurturing personnel and being prepared to support their training.

Experiences in ABeam ~ Impressive Project~

After joining, I became involved in projects supporting business transformation and im the related system plementation in the human resources business field, including personnel, pay, work attendance and talent management at firms in all kinds of industries from manufacturers to universities to trading firms.

Among these, the first that I worked on upon being hired made a lasting impression. It was a project for a manufacturing client. The client was undertaking business transformation, having determined that an organizational and personnel strategy that could respond flexibly to changes in the business environment would be critical to achieving its management goals.

The organizational and personnel infrastructure supporting the key strategies was, however, an old one in use for more than 10 years. Moreover, there had been so many transfers and retirements of people in charge of it that there was no one left in the company who had a grasp of the whole system. That resulted in mounting maintenance costs for a system that couldn't be reformed. The infrastructure itself had become a fundamental stumbling block to organizational and personnel strategy.

Based on the abundance of accumulated case studies available within ABeam, we started out by recommending the elimination of processes considered unnecessary as part of a sweeping personnel process redesign effort. Specifically, we conducted interviews and performed analyses from the perspectives of both business process optimization and efficient utilization of systems.

We made meticulous arrangements to prevent discrepancies in understanding by, for instance, constructing prototype models based on interview content to get an understanding of the current state of systems. By designing a new system in light of perspectives like future expansion of scope and ease of maintenance, we were able to construct organizational and personnel infrastructure that was robust and flexible.

Although this was my first project after joining the company, being involved in the project throughout its whole cycle enabled me to learn on the ground about things like project goal-setting and the overall process toward reaching those goals, what tasks lead to what kinds of results, what issues arise in what situations, and how to resolve them.

I also got a firsthand sense of how critical things like the project management capability and the logical reasoning capacity required of a consultant are, as well as the facilitation and documentation skills that are required of a businessperson. I tried to learn these things from the dual approach of on-the-job project experience and abundant in-house training.

Future ~Growth Story~

A.K

Now that I am a manager with a diverse accumulation of experience, I want to go beyond just seeing projects through from start to finish. I try to enrich each project by keeping up to date from the perspective of corporate human resource managers, watching human resources trends and notable digital technology developments, as well as the issues that affect personnel operations in the workplace.

Also, I think what makes Abeam unique is that we don't just advise our clients; we journey together with them until they achieve what they are aiming for. For example, if what the client is truly aiming for is outside the initial scope of a project, we do all we can to continue serving as a partner to our client by using repeated trial and error to see whether new proposals might be possible, and whether we can find better means of making things work so we can get the client through difficult situations.

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