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Serious question: I've heard about these very, very, long term business plans made by Japanese companies before but I've no idea what they look like or why they
by m12k 10y ago
Serious question: I've heard about these very, very, long term business plans made by Japanese companies before but I've no idea what they look like or why they make them. Do they seriously believe that any part of the plan further away than a few decades will have any resemblance to reality? Are founders and CEOs thought to be oracles of some kind?
"2245: Our company will be first to market with a practical application of the latest breakthrough in particle physics, growing to become a leading provider of teleportation services for logistics and business travel"
- anexprogrammer 10y agoWhat's remarkable is how little there is on the web, and how empty most of those are. I caught a programme that discussed these briefly a few months back, then followed with some googling. I found out almost nothing except Japan has a lot of old companies. As for the plans? That they're to balance short termism and identify long term trends to keep the company in existance. Could have got that much from guesswork. If I want to know more I think I'd have to learn Japanese. Presumably leads to things like Toyota's fuel cell ambitions, and zero carbon factories in 50 years.