Why
Why are we beginning SCX Professional Program IMBA - UK WLV?
If the business environment keeps changing, learning must keep changing too.
When precedent alone is no longer an answer
By 2030, close to four in ten of the skills that work demands will have changed — that is what employers around the world expect. AI, data protection, the rules of the market. Yesterday's right answer is not necessarily tomorrow's.
Learning from precedent and track record still matters. But when the premises themselves keep moving, that alone leaves your judgement short of grounds.
So learning, too, must keep changing. We are beginning SCX Professional Program IMBA - UK WLV — the Japan pathway to the University of Wolverhampton International MBA — as learning that keeps pace with the changes in business. The EduQual curriculum, its assessment and the course materials remain exactly as they are. What our teachers keep renewing is the way they teach them: drawing on the latest cases, and bringing today's open questions — many with no single right answer — into the room for discussion and dialogue, so that every lecture is the one learners most need, and the one that makes a difference.
The decision is yours. That is why you need evidence and words.
Facing change you cannot step away from, you keep moving your business and your organisation forward, without giving up. On the ground, you are getting results.
Even so, when someone at the management meeting or at head office asks, "But does it stand up as a business?" or "What are the grounds for that outlook?", you still have little to offer beyond experience and instinct.
What you need is not to try harder.
It is evidence that backs your judgement with numbers and theory — and the language of management that sets out that judgement in a line of reasoning others can accept.
For us, a leader is someone who can decide on their own responsibility, even when everyone else is against it. What supports that decision is evidence and words. That is why, at the centre of this learning, we place not the stockpiling of knowledge, but the step of turning what you have learnt into judgement on your own business. The subject is your own business.
That evidence and those words — in the same language as the world, too
To counterparts overseas, to the companies you do business with. The situations in which English is indispensable at work will only increase. Most HR departments in Japanese companies, too, say that English has grown in importance in recent years.
In Class, you take the Stage 1 lectures on management in Japanese. Having understood the substance properly, you write your assignments and your dissertation in English. English is not learnt apart from management. As you write the evidence and words of your own business through in English, you become someone who can speak them in English, too.
For those who prefer to continue in English, there is also Solo.
Within fifteen months — a frame of time
Change is accelerating year by year. While you spend time learning, the very premises of what you have learnt can shift — we have entered that age. Time cannot be bought.
That is precisely why a frame of within fifteen months in all matters so much now. Fifteen months later, you are already beginning to move your business on to its next stage with what you have learnt. And that business leads on to transforming the times — that is the destination we have in mind.
To the days you have held your ground — a next step
The days you have spent holding your ground on the front line of change were not wasted. When evidence and words are added to that experience, the drive and the sense of mission to move forward well up from within you.
And the first step towards becoming a leader who can decide on their own responsibility, even when everyone else is against it — from here.
Take that step — at the individual consultation
Up to this point, we have set out why we began this route. The rest, we would like to tell you in person, while hearing about your business.
For the individual consultation, we have prepared materials setting out the road to completion for each month of entry, and the fees for each way of studying. We will take you through them, step by step. How will you be moving your business fifteen months from now? We would be glad if this could be a time to see that picture together.
We look forward to the day we meet.
Shibuya Web3 University Co., Ltd.
President & CEO KITAMURA hajime