Kenichi Saito
Chief Executive Officer
Kenichi Saito is the founder and CEO of ForeSight & Company. Before founding ForeSight & Company, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company.
ForeSight & Company provides various consulting services for a diverse group of industries and organizations. Projects include business strategy development of companies like Pharmaceutical Company, Chemical Firm, Analytical Equipment Company, and Apparel Company, as well as competitiveness enhancement of University, revitalization of Local Governments, and more. He developed his own program called “Problem Solving Skill Training” from his experience as a top consultant over 40years. His unique course is highly valued by the students and clients because of its customized lectures allowing them to improve skills and performance by focusing on each corporate skill level and goal. It is supported by more than 20,000 students from BBT University, BBT graduate school, BBT Open College program and numerous number of companies. The course is also conducted for the Chinese management team in China as well as for foreign management members of Japanese affiliated companies in overseas in English.
1975 Joined McKinsey & Company, Inc. Tokyo, Japan as a Business Analyst
1987 Elected to be a Partner
1989-1995 Deputy Office Manager of Osaka Office
1996 to present Founder and Managing Director of ForeSight & Company
2005 to 2016 Professor of Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business
2017 to present Founder and Representative Director of ATPSC
(Association for Testing Problem Solving Capabilities)
Publications
Shogakukan
Practice of Problem Solving
Approach
2003
＊Japanese
Goma Books
Problem Solving Skill for Sales
2007
＊Japanese
Diamond
Essential for Problem Solving
Professionals
2011
＊Japanese
吉林出版集团股份有限公司
Practice of Problem Solving
Approach
2019
＊Chinese
商業周刊
Training for Problem Solving
2017
＊Taiwanese
中国友諠公司
Training for Problem Solving
2017
＊Chinese
Magazines & Websites
Diamond Harvard Business Review, Jan.2007 issue
The Core value in Business Operations
Takarajima vol.1538, Jun.2008 Issue
Logical Thinking for Problem Solving, Learn from the top consultant
Diamond Harvard Business Review, Sep.2008 Issue
Interview skills to empower sales
Weekly Toyo Keizai, Mar.2010 Issue
The Sales force management to breakthrough your limitations
Weekly Toyo Keizai, Jul.2013 Issue
McKinsey School vol.2: Analysis skill
Diamond Online, Sep,2012 to present
Kenichi Saito’s advanced training for sales expert
YOUWA-KAI
“YOUWA-KAI” is an organization for the present students and alumni who are learning and have learned Mr. Saito’s “Problem Solving Program.” “YOUWA” means “What’s the point?” in Kansai dialect Japanese, which is the essential of problem solving.
Website (Japnese)： https://youwakai.jp/
Special Seminar at International University of Japan!
Theme: Aiming to become problem solver (Why do we need problem solvers?)
Instructor: Kenichi Saito
Date & Time: 14:40 – 16:10, Friday, October 11, 2019
Venue: IUJ Classroom
Abstract of the Seminar:
The most important thing in learning Problem Solving is instead of thinking about solving problems as soon as you realize that there is a problem, you should think about the cause of why such a problem occurred!
This seminar introduces
-Why do we need a “problem solver” to improve our corporate/ organization performance?
-What we need to learn in order to become a “problem solver” that can enhance corporate performance.
