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JMEC – the Japan Market Expansion Competition— supported by our chamber and 17 other foreign chambers in Japan.JMEC is a business training programme designed for full-time, mid-career professionals who want to improve their business planning skills.Generally speaking our corporate members can engage with JMEC in two ways:

• Send employees to the program for high-quality and hands-on business training
• Provide a real business project from your company for a JMEC team to conduct research and analysis, and produce a comprehensive business plan—based on a detailed Scope of Work/deliverables

JMEC is now looking for participant and project applications for the next program, its 30th edition (2023/2024)—JMEC 30! If you are interested in sending some of your employees for training in the program and/or provide a real business project for a JMEC team to work on, please read on.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Designed for full-time mid career professionals who want to improve their business planning skills, the JMEC business training programs commence in November each year with a 7-Saturday lecture series covering topics related to researching and writing a professional business plan and how to do business in Japan. The lectures and workshops are led by senior business executives and successful start-up founders in Japan. The second part of the program starts in mid-January with research, analysis and writing of an actual business plan for a real project by a real company. Participants are placed onto teams of 4-5 people who then, supported by a team mentor and a team consultant, will spend the next four-five months preparing a business plan for your company. To make it even more interesting and further energize participants, this is also a business plan competition. In late May the teams will therefore present their plan to a panel of JMEC judges—before presenting it to the client company.

MODES OF ENGAGEMENT

1) Place your employees in the program as participants. Please ask your interested employees to first register for a JMEC 30 Info Session—see details and Web link for this further below.
2) Provide a business project from your company for a JMEC team to work on, conducting research and analysis, and produce a comprehensive business plan—based on a detailed Scope of Work/deliverables. Please contact Program Director trond@jmec.gr.jp if you are interested in this option.

PROGRAM OUTLINE - PARTICIPANTS

Schedule:
November 11, 2023: Program starts with a lecture and workshop series over 7 Saturdays, in-person and on Zoom (people outside Tokyo can also participate)
January 13, 2024: Business plan projects from companies given to the teams
May 7, 2023: Submission of written business plan
May 25-26, 2023: Oral team presentations to the JMEC judging panel
May 27-June 4 2023: Team presentations to project clients (companies)
June 5 2023: JMEC Awards Ceremony at the Tokyo American Club
Price: \150,000/person
Application Deadline: October 15, 2023
Info Sessions: In-person and online info sessions; for dates and other details: https://jmec.gr.jp/participants
The online application form is also available on the above link.

PROGRAM OUTLINE - PROJECT CLIENTS

Schedule:
January 13, 2024: Business plan projects from companies given to the teams
May 7, 2023: Submission of written business plan
May 27-June 4, 2023: Team presentations to project clients (companies)
June 5 2023: JMEC Awards Ceremony at the Tokyo American Club
Price: \1,500,000/project
Application Deadline: November 30, 2023
'Early-Bird' Price: \1,200,000/project
Application Deadline: September 30, 2023
Contact: If you are interested in a potential project, contact trond@jmec.gr.jp and nele@jmec.gr.jp to discuss and get more information.