I was very honored to join professor Ulrike Schaede on the Japan Zoominar @UC San Diego, organized by the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy June 1, 2021: E-Commerce and the Digital Transformation (DX) in Japan Japan is facing multiple challenges as its workforce ages and population declines, compounded by the disruption of the global pandemic. Japan Inc’s traditional methods are being forced to change in everything from marketing to work style and administrative processes. COVID-19 has further changed consumer behavior, e-commerce and logistics are upended, and the way in which all businesses from large retailers to small mom-&-pop

Part 2 of the Japan Business Insights Clubhouse talk with Maya Matsuoka and Tim Sullivan on Digital Transformation in Japan: Trends and Opportunities.

I was honored to be a speaker on the Japan Expert Insights Clubhouse channel last week with Maya Matsuoka and Tim Sullivan. A recording can be found on the YouTube channel here: https://lnkd.in/g_exdMV And website here: https://lnkd.in/gS4ceSw

This was the second time I was honored to be interviewed by Brittany Arthur on the Business Karaoke Podcast In this episode, we have the rare pleasure of welcoming back a guest and its all the more special as its close friend of the Business Karaoke Podcast, Evan Burkosky. Evan is a Digital Transformation (DX) expert in Japan helping  businesses adopt new technologies and improve productivity via AI, automation, eCommerce, and retail logistics. He has worked both agency-side and vendor-side selling to Japan’s Fortune 500, co-founded several startups, and is a Senior Advisor to several others. Currently he is the Country Manager for Dynamic Yield, Board Director at TELL, and

Digital transformation (DX) is mission-critical in Japan, we all know that. But do you understand why? We sat down with Evan Burkosky, Digital Transformation Expert, to find the answers to this pressing issue. Evan has been researching the state of digital transformation in Japan for many years and looked at it from different angles. He knows Japan’s macro-economic background and where it stands in international comparison as well as the specific work processes of individual companies and organizations. In Part 1 we talked about the 20 year history of DX in Japan, the current state of digital transformation in Japan and how it compares to its international peers. In Part

Digital transformation (DX) is mission-critical in Japan, we all know that. But do you understand why? We sat down with Evan Burkosky, Digital Transformation Expert, to find the answers to this pressing issue. Evan has been researching the state of digital transformation in Japan for many years and looked at it from different angles including a macro-economic perspective as well as from inside individual companies focusing on specific work processes. Our conversation went further and deeper than we would have imagined and we covered way too much ground to squeeze it all into one article. That’s why we will publish our findings in several articles over the next few weeks.