Mogic considers

Who are we really competing with?

Capitalism is competition, company management is competition, and life may be competition.

It is a friendly competition with someone else to achieve something, to play to your strengths and eliminate your weaknesses, and maybe even to fight against yourself.

I would like to delve a little deeper into competition and write about the strategy.

If we take out the skeleton of the competition, it becomes "multiple players under a common set of rules to achieve a goal and determine superiority," and the qualification test is the most obvious example.

The conditions of the test, including subjects, date and time, are fairly communicated to multiple players, and the score earned on the day's test determines whether a player passes or fails the test.

The rules are clear and the goal is clear.

However, there are hidden assumptions here, and tinkering with them reveals a different side to the competition.

That is when you eliminate or change the presence of someone who rules in advance and adjudicates after the goal is scored.

In terms of certification exams, this means being on the side of changing the very organization that determines the content of the exam and whether it is passed or failed.

In this case, the person who changes the rules themselves is sometimes called a game changer.

This means that the rule change itself becomes a competitive field.

Of course, it is not enough to just change the rules, because changing the rules is not a game changer if no one believes in them.

Even if we just look at the two competitions roughly, we feel that the way to survive them (i.e., strategy) is ultimately about timing.

When do we fight within the rules that are set and when do we fight for those who change the rules?

No matter how great the skills you build up, they will be meaningless after the rules have changed, and even rustic skills are better than zero right after the rules have changed.

Do we sense a structural change that is likely to change the rules and initiate symbolization ahead of time, or do we wait until after the symbolization and quickly imitate it?

As we move our thinking from competition to strategy, we sometimes wonder who we are really competing with.

In the long time frame, other companies and others that are visible are only a small part of the picture.

Quickly, leisurely, and gradually

Cooking is an interesting way to gradually match the rhythms of various cooking styles.

Some are processed as quickly as possible to keep them fresh, some are left in the refrigerator until the flavors have infused, some are simmered overnight, and some are marinated for up to six months.

Some rhythms are short, some are long, and they must be perfectly aligned when placed on the table.

In Japanese cuisine, there is also the rhythm of the season of the ingredients, which needs to be taken care of throughout the year. There is a passage that conveys this, so I will write it down.
The following is an excerpt from a passage that conveys this.
Suggestion that one soup and one vegetable is all that is needed.
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We look forward to the nourishing flavors of the changing seasons.

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that only the Japanese and wild birds ...... do not miss the season, but considering the breadth, detail, and depth of the ways to enjoy the season, it is not a lie.

This is particularly evident in the division of the season into "firsts," "seconds," and "lasts," and in the sensory perception and awareness of the beginnings and endings of life at the crossroads.

The sensitivity of Japanese food, which is all in harmony with the seasons, reminds us in the form of emotion that our bodies are connected to nature in an orderly way.
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Company operations are similar, and the flow of time is completely different for each worker and each project.

Time progresses at different paces: the pace at which new graduates who graduated at the end of the Heisei period progress, the pace of those who came out of the countryside and have been working in Tokyo for 10 years and raising children, the pace of projects that have been worked on solidly for more than 5 years, the pace of new businesses being launched, and so on.

But that is natural, and I think management should feel such disparate rhythms of time.

Subtract or multiply from "working."

When you work for a company and subtract the prerequisite of "making money," what is left?

Capitalism is so self-evident that if you choose the stance of "belonging to a corporation," you will make sales and increase profits.

That is the first reason to run a company or work for a company.

However, when we consider that we spend more than 7 hours a day in working, we feel that it is important to fulfill something other than "making money," although it is a bit greedy, in order to maintain mental balance.

People have different criteria, such as starting to do well at work, receiving a few compliments, or making new friends, but I think it depends on whether or not you have expectations for your future self.

From a different angle, another question I often receive from interns is, "How can I insure my future work?

The risk of limiting yourself to one profession, the risk of not doing the work you want to do, the risk of working long hours, the risk of being transferred, the risk of having an unpleasant boss, the risk of not being able to start your own business.

Ideally, it would be nice to have an options deal that avoids them.

Whether or not there really is an option is another discussion, but I feel that there is too much anxiety going on.

Anxiety arises, which turns into anticipation, worry grows, and hope swells.

It would also be ideal if the years of work increase with each passing season.

ORIGAMI, How to Fold Information

It may sound a bit strange, but one of the best ways to make friends with people from different countries when you go abroad is the Japanese way of "Origami ORIGAMI".

Origami is highly recognized, and when they start making it, they are interested in it in an "ah, that's it" kind of way.

However, many people know vines and balloons, so it is usually appreciated if you write the person's name in Chinese characters on the completed origami as an added bonus.

While making origami, I always feel that this is what is creating "value" and "the ability to organize information.

The material for origami is a sheet of plain paper.

It is everywhere in the world. And pens are everywhere.

From something that everyone thinks "exists" everywhere, in a few dozen seconds, the Japanese worldview of vines and the unfamiliarity of your name in kanji are created in the other person's mind.

There is a moment when something too common and too familiar that "wasn't there" becomes "there".

The process of creating new value from commonplace objects provides hints for gaining insight from the vast amount of commonplace information on the Internet.

Perhaps the framework of perception of "vast and mundane information" itself is different, and I don't see a way to fold mundane information into value, and even more troubling, it seems to be uncertain and ever-changing.

Bedtown Company Grammar

Inextricably linked to the story of the large number of housewives in the 1950s is the fact that the majority of corporate organizations were dominated by men.

Naturally, the company culture created at that time would be a grammar = company culture created to make working men work harder.

They have been passed down through the generations to companies with a long history and are now coming to terms with the discrepancies with the diversification of the workforce.

The recent debate over maternity leave, shorter working hours, and reform of work styles is a good example of this.

The company Mogic was established in 2009, and the office is located in Shakujii, a bedroom community, which makes the company's staffing structure close to that of the community.

They range in age from 19 to 65+, some are students, some are single, some are moms and dads raising children, some are caregivers, some are taking care of grandchildren, and most are international students.

The grammar of a company created from such a background is still fundamentally different from the grammar of only working men.

Something tacit was created by leaning on those working in the community before the rules were clearly stated in the work rules.

Various events and rules that do not look like a company are apparently streamlined to accommodate the diversity of workers.

Landscape Architecture

The term "landscape" is familiar in urban planning, landscape architecture, and geography, but is not often heard.

In layman's terms, landscape is "the organic connection between people, nature, and artifacts." At Mogic, we use this concept as the basis for our IT services and company development. (The actual definition of the term "landscape" seems to vary from field to field.)

The reason why I bring up the idea of landscape when creating IT services is because IT development tends to be created in a point-by-point fashion, and I think it is necessary to think in a way that covers this tendency.

For example, the functionality to be used is summarized as requirements definition, usability is created as web design, and a place to organize information is created as a database, which is then combined to form a single system.

We also work on getting our products ranked higher in search engines, post them on social media, and send out press releases to let people know about them.

At first glance, all of those things seem important, but if we compare this to the construction of a public facility, something seems to be missing.

First, we will put together a list of uses that local residents might use, decide on the building's exterior and interior, and create a multipurpose room management office.

In order to publicize the new facilities to the community, priority will be given to posting them on bulletin boards, informing acquaintances, and placing them in circulars.

Is that really the only way to get a "view" that people will enjoy and use?

I feel something is missing.

Perhaps it seems to lack "something fun" that makes the people who live there feel their lives are richer.

I believe that one of the most important aspects of creating an IT service is how you build that part of the service.

Well, with IT, it is more of a cloudscape than a landscape.

Education as a Gift

At Mogic, there are many educational-like things going on in many situations.

The reason why the term "education-like" is used vaguely is that, like a class, there is no firm curriculum or outcome goals, and methods can change in response to coincidental events.

It has been the creation of an idea service called MicroTech, the creation of a lassi, the creation of a bouldering wall, and many other things.

We have been doing this type of education for a long time and know that it is effective in more ways than one word can describe, but the actual reason why this style of education is better was not clearly understood, even among those who practice it.

I recently read a book and thought this might be the case, so I will quote from it.

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Anthropology of Shyness
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Students will eventually forget about the content of their college classes.

I myself can hardly remember the content of the lectures I attended in college.

Not everything is known in advance, either to education or to the students, what it will do for them or when the tangible results will be seen.

Perhaps the only thing that remains in the student is "heat. The faculty cannot decide in advance what kind of energy will be transformed into the next "heat" within the students.

In the first place, students have the potential to be anything they want to be.

The words spoken in class, the "learning" evoked there, are not "products" that satisfy the needs of others.

It is a "gift" that is handed over without knowing how it will be received or what it will lead to.

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Because it is a gift, the "effort" to do so cannot be converted into time or money, nor is it a subject that should be calculated at a loss.

If education is regarded as "labor" that is exchanged in the marketplace, the "correct" answer is always to spend a minimum amount of effort, since the "results" cannot be properly measured.

Education, then, becomes a futile task.

In fact, you may have received very little, or you may have received something you did not intend to give.

On the teachers' side, there is always only "unreachability.

Education, I believe, is the act of continuing to give gifts toward this unreachability.
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Perhaps it is because the management policy emphasizes teamwork that they do not see education as a cost-effective way to improve skills, but as a gift.

Make mixed juice in the evening

It's not that "making mixed juice in the evening" in and of itself means anything, but that the way we refresh ourselves in the evening may have a significant impact on our performance.

At Mogic, the company starts at 10:00 a.m., and we concentrate for two hours until lunch.

After that, if you start work at 1:00 p.m., you would normally continue nonstop until 7:00 p.m.

However, after collecting data for so long, we have found that they seem to lose concentration between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.

So I decided that I would be more productive if I spent 30 minutes making drinks and food while making a lot of noise, so I do something at least three times a week.

We have been doing this for more than two years already and have had no problems, but rather it is good training for the young people as they turn their heads to create a sense of fun.