Mogic considers

The start of the new school year is even busier than before.

It's a curry that can be preserved for 25 years," he told me, "and it's really good.

I have visited the company once and was told that they are so particular about the taste of their products that they participate in curry festivals around the country.

Preserved food is something that inadvertently goes past its expiration date, and our company decided to purchase it, saying that 25 years would be a great help.

In addition, I decided to review the overall disaster preparedness and decided to check Youtube for the latest information.

"Well, you could have a plan that replaces the role of the appliances."
"But there are certain products that really need electricity, like the refrigerator, the fan, and the hair dryer in the home.
I see that the rolling blackouts can last for three months or more."

and find out, IT companies may be in trouble if there is a planned power outage! What are we going to do? We were all in a hurry.

When there is a planned power outage, electricity is shut off for several hours during the day.

IT companies work with computers.

The company's computers are approximately battery-less.

You can't work during that time.

I opened TEPCO's website to check a little more precisely.

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h ttps:// www.tepco.co.jp/keikakuteiden/about-j.html

In the event of planned power outages, we will ask for one power outage per day per group in principle for approximately two hours during the following time period between 8:30 and 21:00.

Power outage time period
Approximately 2 hours during each of the following time periods

First time zone 8:30 - 11:00 a.m.
2nd time zone 10:30am - 1:00pm
3rd time zone 12:30 - 15:00
4th time slot: 14:30 - 17:00
Time slot 5: 16:30 - 19:00
6th time slot: 18:30 - 21:00
Time zone 6: 18:30 - 21:00

I was a little relieved that a two-hour stop would work.

But the plan is the plan.

So in the event of a disaster, it could stop for much longer.

Well, I started to think about various things and became even busier as I entered the busy season.

Collective and cumulative careers are needed

Purchase the goods, package them, find someone to buy them, sign the contract, deliver the goods, and confirm payment.

or

The people who make the products, sell them, organize the work, and do the administrative work work work together.

or

Pay expenses, make sales, make a profit, and turn cash.

All of these would be appropriate to describe the existence of a "company".

However, I feel that this is not what we are aiming for.

I think they hit it big, but they didn't catch the core.

It was at this time that I was inspired by a book that used the definition of "innovative company" and discussed the deprivation of corporate value.

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Corporate Value Looted
William Lazonick (author), Yangsoob Singh (author), Takeshi Nakano (commentary), Masanori Suzuki (translation)
h ttps:// str.toyokeizai.net/books/9784492444832/

Recognize that companies can grow significantly by transforming their cost structure by creating higher quality, lower unit cost products than they have in the past.

Innovative companies invest in a collective and cumulative learning process to develop higher quality products than their competitors.

And if it succeeds, the innovative company will gain a larger share of its product market, precisely because buyers will see the product as high quality.

This market share spreads the fixed costs of production over more units sold and translates the higher fixed costs of developing higher quality products into lower unit costs.

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We identify three "social conditions for innovative firms" that enable firms to produce products of higher quality and lower unit cost than previously possible.

These social conditions are strategic management, organizational integration, and financing commitment.
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The most interesting part, though lined with difficult kanji, was the "collective and cumulative learning process.

Let me rewrite it with a little interpretation.

Yes, we want to aim for good service if we are going to do it anyway.

However, whether it is possible to reach it through hard work is another matter.

There are so many things to think about, so it's hard to know what's ahead.

But you won't reach it unless you aim for it, so let's start.

What is risky is that you never know when or how good the service will be.

So we have to stick with it and make it work until we get there.

We have the funds, look into business meetings, and get all kinds of feedback.

The team discusses "this and that" with each other.

There is a lot of waste, but all sorts of wisdom accumulates in the organization.

The probability of good service is increasing.

Hmmm, it is a tedious process, unlike financial products.

I suddenly remember what my friend said.

He said, "Why do you think (I) work on financial products? Because people will always complain somewhere, but money never says anything.

It sure would be nice if you could drop a quick effort and get a quick result, but not at all.

It would be easier if the results were determined by the amount of effort, but the future always remains uncertain.

But it is also true that there are those who enjoy such a process.

I guess it goes without saying that we are that type of person.

After all, they are all peculiar and often cause trouble.

Well, it is also true that how could we have made it this far with laughter?

Not necessarily because of that, but I secretly hope that we can continue to get better together in various things.

I would like to conclude by quoting a sentence from there.

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Learning, which is the essence of the innovation process, is collective and cumulative.

Innovation cannot happen alone.

People learn how to work better through interaction with others who are dedicated to the same organizational goals.

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It is due to the cumulative nature of these collective learning processes that we seek to keep key employees employed over the long term.

And in complex division of labor systems producing complex products, the "key" personnel for the collective and cumulative learning process can be found deep in the organizational hierarchy.

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Just as companies need collective and cumulative learning to be innovative, employees need collective and cumulative careers to remain highly productive in their now 40+ years of professional life.
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Work normally, if not

If life is to be 100 years long, there are many events that will take place over the longer period of time.

Some good, some bad.

It would be nice to have someone by your side to support you in times of weakness, but when that is not the case, you have to rely on public support.

In light of this, I have been doing a lot of research and listening to various discussions in an effort to better understand the social security system for everyone and myself.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare website.
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What is Social Security?
h ttps:// www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_21479.html

The social security system is a safety net that supports the "security" and "stability" of people's lives.

It consists of "Social Insurance," "Social Welfare," "Public Assistance," and "Health Care and Public Health," and supports the lives of all people throughout their lives, from children to child-rearing generations to the elderly.
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A closer look at the chart on the above website (social security systems that support people's lives throughout their lives) shows that "social welfare" support is thinnest for those aged 18 to 40, while "employment promotion" support is most "generous" for those aged 15 to 75. The "employment promotion" support is the most "generous" for those aged 15 to 75.

When the two systems are considered together, the basic premise is to "work normally" because that is the generation that is healthy and able to do their best in that area.

Of course, I think that has been the case until now.

But what if there will be more cases of "not working well due to some difficulties" in this coming generation?

It is not a situation where it is obviously impossible to work, but rather a case where it is difficult to work because one is not well matched to society.

The MHLW data does not reveal that support, as it should.

And then I think about it a little.

Is there anything I can do to follow up as the one running the company?

If you can do it, what can you follow up on and to what extent?

If "working in a very ordinary way" is not going to be the norm, we need to pay careful attention to the new "work" that will be created.

We can only hope for their bottom line.

Perhaps it is the nature of the season, but I am often consulted by former interns and working alumni.

I've been assigned to a department, but it's not the one I wanted.
I'm missing something for my future career.
I would like to get a reference so I can continue working overseas.
I've changed jobs several times and now I don't know how to move forward.
My boss is moody and sets hard goals for me.
I work from morning to night, commute to work, and can't think about anything else.
I have a lot of free time, and that's hard for me.

Yes, yes, I hear their complaints as much as time permits.

If you can put into words, even if only coarsely, the confusion you have been carrying around for so long, you will be able to see a little clearing, and your wild, sideways feelings will lessen as you talk.

So advice is minimal, and only when asked for.

If there is a break in the conversation, just ask one more question after another.

What they say in passing, we put them together.

Every once in a while, I find something impossible to make sense of, no matter how I try.

A place where that story and this story are clashing and not getting anywhere.

Oh, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so."

So, if you can find a keyhole somewhere, I would be more than happy to help.

That's all we can do.

Now we just have to hope for their bottom line, gosh darn it.

Complex, Simple, Management

I sometimes lose track of what management is, so I make time to think about this and that.

Today we decided to re-focus on the constraint of "type and amount of work".

First, let's set some simple conditions.

Q1: If one person were to do one type of work in one day or less, would you be able to do it or not?

Yeah, once I get used to it, I think I can do it.

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Q2: What five different jobs would one person do in one day or less?

"I'd have to switch heads, and I don't know if I can do that, although I kind of doubt it."

And so on and so on, increasing the number of conditions.

Q3: If five different jobs were to be done within one day by five people with the same experience, what would they be?

Q4: If 5 different jobs were to be done in less than a day by 10 people with different experience?

Q5: If 5 different jobs were to be done in less than 10 days by 10 people with different experience, switching between them, what would you do?

Q6: Assuming that there is an order to the five types of work, and that the next two types of work must not be started until all three types are completed first, and that only three people can do the first three types, and that all ten people can do the remaining seven types, what if the work is done in ten days, with replacement?

It is very complicated.

I don't want to complicate things like this, but, alas, the reality of the job is that it gets in the way before you know it.

But even so, we can't afford to be overzealous, so we're going to have to gather our wits a little more.

Q7: Why does Q6 seem complicated while Q1 is easy?

There are more decisions to be made than at any other time, and if you make a mistake, you don't get a chance to fix it.

Assuming that the answer to this question is "yes," then let's consider the countermeasure.

"If you loosen the restrictions on time as much as possible and reduce the number of branches..."

The first is the "I" in the "I" column.

Okay, then I'll simplify Q6.

Q6': 3 people will do 3 different jobs within 3 days. The remaining 7 people watch and learn at the same time. If the pace of the work is too slow to be completed within 3 days, 7 other people will support the work on the 2nd and 3rd days, and from the 4th day, the 7 people who supported the work will do the main work, and the first 3 people will wait as support?

I am not sure if this is a good answer. To begin with.

Q8: Are the results achieved in a job as complex as Q6 worth it?

Q9: Where is the quality of the finished product in Q6 guaranteed?

Q10: Isn't there really a way to do it with 3 people instead of 10?

It is necessary to ask the question.

Somehow, I wonder if it is management to think about things like this.

In other words, to take the assumptions that build up over time and work them into a complex and risky group of tasks and project them as simple themes as possible.

Well, plausibly, the reason I have developed the logic at such length is because I felt that the premises in the following puzzle problem were too long and could not be made a little shorter.

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Gardner's Mathematical Puzzles and Games
Martin Gardner (Author), Hirokazu Iwasawa (Supervisor), Ryuhei Uehara (Supervisor)
h ttps:// www.nippyo.co.jp/shop/book/6820.html

Question 9: How many children?

You can hear the kids playing in the yard."

Jones, a graduate student in mathematics, said.

Are they all your children?"

No way!"

Professor Smith raised his voice. The professor is a great authority on integer theory.

My children play with the children of three neighborhoods. It is true that we have the most children in the neighborhood. Mr. Brown's place has the next most, followed by Mr. Green's, and Mr. Black's has the fewest.

How many children do you have in total?" Jones asked.

The professor began to explain, "Well, let me put it this way.

The number of children is less than 18. And if you multiply the number of children in each of the four families by the number of children in each of the four families, you get exactly our house number. You see, when we arrived home, you saw it too."

Jones took a notepad and pencil out of his pocket and began to do some calculations. After a while, Jones looked up.

I still need more information. Do you have more than one child at Mr. Black's place?"

When the professor answered yes or no to that, Jones immediately, with a smile on his face, correctly guessed the number of children in each of the four families.

In other words, for Jones, who knew the house numbers and knew whether the Black family had more than one child, the answer to the question was obvious, but surprisingly, in fact, without knowing them, he could uniquely determine the number of each based solely on the information given so far. Now, how many of each?
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Good Design Award: 2024

The e-learning system LearnO received the Good Design Award thanks to the efforts of many different people.

I didn't think cloud services would be eligible, but a senior awardee told me it was okay.

All of the consultants, producers, directors, designers, and engineers who worked on the rebranding over the past three years.

Everyone in inside sales, testers, and back office for their valuable input in the service operation.

I would like to thank all the PR and marketing people who thought of good presentation, timing of announcements, and development methods.

To our clients who have found LearnO online and continue to use it.

To our partners who provided us with video servers and content production.

To our partners who have built their own brand and sold their products as a package.

To all regional partners who have updated their terms of use and processed their accounting.

In addition to that, I have had the support of so many others that I cannot even begin to count.

As there are not many opportunities and places to share this information, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again from the bottom of my heart.

We could not have come this far without your help.

It is truly invaluable to build a service with a team.

We are proud to have taken one step at a time with those who miraculously joined hands with us.

We will continue to make every effort to provide trustworthy service.

Reference] Press Release
h ttps:// prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000148.000004876.html

Engaging with the Director

In a previous long interview, we talked about our relationship with engineers and designers, calling it communication with the creator.

Since the long interview itself has already ended and I haven't had a chance to talk to him, I would like to write next about how he perceives and treats directors.

The job of directing the web, the job title of director.

Web production companies, system development companies, SIers, BtoB and BtoC service providers, etc.

There are many different roles, but if we were to extract the roles that are common to all of them, we would say that they are the keystone of the project.

The image of a person who can be depended on by everyone, who judges all information, who balances well, and who is in between.

And, after all, it is also the position that receives the most unreasonable demands.

We are in the middle zone between the creators, such as engineers and designers, and the clients and producers who pay us, and we are exposed to the ever-changing situation of the project.

Therefore, I think it is important to have the intuition to get to the point, or to have a good sense of humor.

Even if you don't know the ins and outs at first, if you gather information diligently, you will manage to get around.

With that in mind, when I speak with directors, I look at the type of stress they are carrying rather than the content.

Is it a problem that you have been carrying around for a long time, or is it a response to a recent problem, or is it the result of being continually pressed by all kinds of deadlines?

If they are talking too fast, or are jumping around, or their faces are stiff, or their voices are different, then yes, I can understand that they are not that good.

And now that I've talked about all the bad things that seem to be happening, let me touch on the rewards of being a director.

What they find rewarding, perhaps, is that they can share their sense of accomplishment with the people involved in the project.

After all, it is a special time to share the present moment with many people, to eat from the same pot, and to accomplish something.

I am also fortunate to be able to collaborate with people who have a power that I do not have.

Therefore, I feel that people with the mentality that if those around them are happy, they are happy too, are suited for the job.

This is our vision of what a director should look like.

that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)

if you notice something

This development may be..,

I'm sure some of you may think so.

Yes, this was supposed to be an article, but before I knew it, it had become a new (arate) recruiting guide.

I mean, it's been a while since we've tried to recruit a full-time web director at Mogic, and this section was overflowing with them.

Ah, but since we're here.

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Now, let's begin again.

The purpose of this recruitment is not to fill a vacancy, but to expand the work of the Market Direction department.

I have talked only about the director image, but we are also doing a good job of marketing work.

Whether you are new to the IT industry, a new graduate who has only been working for a few years, or just starting your job search, we are open to all.

Mogic's selection process is always a good fit with the current members.

We see little experience or skill.

If you are interested, please contact us.

These days, you can speak with them beforehand in a casual interview (not a job interview).

Now, as a side note, I would like to leave you with some thoughts on what the best director is, not just the basic director's role.

Who is the best director?

Of course, I don't want to be the only director who seems to get lucky for everyone on the project, because I don't want to be the only one who gets lucky.

In other words, a direction that allows people to make choices they did not think about after much thought and consideration, and that somehow keeps everyone focused and happy, even though it is too hard to do so due to adversity and cornering and cornering.

Reference] Interview with a full-time employee who joined the company with no experience
h ttps:// pr.mogic.jp/category/interview/13446

Reference] Interview with the Chief of the Market Direction Division
h ttps:// pr.mogic.jp/category/interview/13456

Market Direction Department
h ttps:// www.mogic.jp/recruit/#marketd

Casual Interviews] Inquiry Form
h ttps:// www.mogic.jp/contact/form/132/

Few, very few

In the company, we are expected to do things properly and in accordance with our objectives.

Having said that, if I happen to find something good, even though it's not what I'm after, I'm happy to do so.

A steady path to the goal and an unexpected encounter.

I was hoping to find a good balance between the two without being biased toward one or the other, and I found the expression I was looking for in the biochemical mechanism.

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Sleeping Evolution
Andreas Wagner (Author), Naoko Ota (Translator)
h ttps:// www.hayakawa-online.co.jp/shop/g/g0000614651/

Many proteins self-assemble - fold - into an intricate three-dimensional form.

The amino acid chain is constantly bumped into by countless other molecules flying in from the surroundings.

This collision is caused by the vibration of the molecules, which we call heat.

It is also the engine that propels protein folding.

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What I didn't mention before is that protein chains don't stop moving even after they are folded.

Its shape is held together by the chemical attraction between nearby amino acids, but it continues to wiggle and quiver as it is continually tossed about by thermal vibrations.

These movements are essential to the work performed by most proteins and catalyze the chemical reactions that power all life on earth - including the thousands of enzymes that accelerate reactions.

And some of these enzymes protect the organism by tearing down and destroying antibiotics.

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In the enzyme that cuts through the antibiotic, the folding of the enzyme leads to these movements, knocking certain amino acids to where the molecule needs to be torn apart.

The resulting collision tears the antibiotic.

It is similar to how scissors cut through paper, but the forces at work are chemical rather than mechanical, involving attraction and repulsion between atoms.

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Like scissors with a slightly loose pivot, enzyme-induced movement can be sloppy.

It might bind the wrong amino acid to the molecule that jumped in.

Alternatively, the amino acids could be correct but bind in the wrong place.

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For these reasons, many enzymes that accelerate one type of chemical reaction can also accelerate other reactions.

Biochemists also refer to this as a "loose" enzyme with substrate specificity.

Because it catalyzes reactions with a wide variety of molecular partners.
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When we examine the metabolism of living organisms, we find that it is a very complex circuit, but in fact there are some surprisingly loose parts.

In terms of the body, it is the interlocking of multiple parts that maintains overall activity, not to mention the fact that certainty and reproducibility at the cellular level is the foundation.

But even at such a level, there is looseness.

A very small amount of looseness creates a new protein, which replaces the DNA strand.

If so, I will make the leap that it is so.

I wondered what would happen if we could have the slightest looseness in the organization of the company.

Ideally, we can hypothesize that "very little looseness catalyzes reactions with a wide variety of members.

The problem, however, is the saltiness.

It is difficult to find the right amount of looseness.

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I tried to use the word "slight" in three different ways, but I still couldn't come up with a good idea, so I decided to order some sweets that are appropriate for the beginning of autumn today.

Incidentally, I recommend the evolutionary biology books mentioned above, which have many interesting theories.