US - Japan Business Leaders Forum on Productivity 2019

The Japan Productivity Center (President: Kazutaka Maeda) inaugurated the "Management Forum for Productivity" (Chair: Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman of Japan Productivity Center), a core organization to promote global collaboration, on July 1st, 2018, as one of the activity pillars of JPC's mid-term objectives for 2018-2020, to improve productivity in an era of population decline.

This is the first step in structuring the global collaboration framework, which consists of exchanges that begins with dialogue among top business leaders from Japan, the US, and Germany, as well as research activities, with the aim of solving productivity issues from a global perspective. To strengthen this framework, JPC and the Conference Board (President and CEO: Steve Odland) finalized a memorandum of understanding on the pursuit of productivity improvement through the collaboration described above.