“Corporate Executive Certification – Learning Management Perspectives” Fully Free and Open to All Business Professionals!
The Japan CFO Association, Japan CHRO Association, and Japan CLO Association have launched a free online certification course, "Corporate Executive Certification – Learning Management Perspectives," utilizing generative AI within their "Corporate Executive Forum (CEF)" online community. The course aims to enhance business professionals' management perspectives by extracting management essence from over 10 years of archival content.
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The Japan CFO Association, Japan CHRO Association, and Japan CLO Association (hereinafter, "the three associations") are pleased to announce that they have added a new "Learning Function" to their jointly operated online community "Corporate Executive Forum (CEF)" and have released a certification course developed using generative AI.
Through more than 10 years of association activities, the three associations have accumulated over 100 lecture recordings and interview articles by top-tier CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs in Japan. These archives contain "management decision-making criteria," "values," and "failures and lessons learned" that are not found in textbooks.
Generative AI has engaged with this archive, extracted the essence of management, and converted it into examination questions and explanations in the form of the "Corporate Executive Certification - Learning Management Perspectives."
Background and Issues Recognized:
While various educational programs exist in the management domain, many of them are limited to acquiring specialized knowledge in isolated silos. Even if one acquires expertise in accounting, finance, taxation, legal affairs, intellectual property, labor relations, and human resources strategy, structural issues such as "inability to make decisions across departments" and "unbridged gap in perspective with management" cannot be resolved simply by increasing knowledge.
Especially in an era where specialized knowledge can be replaced by AI, what is needed now is learning that allows one to vicariously experience "why a manager made a particular decision"—that is, not knowledge optimized for individual departments, but rather a way of thinking and judgment based on the perspective of "the entire corporation and its executives." The three associations have prepared the learning function and certification course as a framework to address this challenge.
Introduction to the Learning Function:
The learning function will sequentially add courses as a "completely free online corporate business school." Discussions and exchanges of opinions can also take place on the accompanying community.
Main Features:
- All online and completely free
- Visualization of achievement: Check learning progress and proficiency on a dashboard
- Smartphone compatible: Mobile learning utilizing spare time
- Community integration: Integration with discussion and exchange functions on CEF
Target Audience:
- All corporate staff (regardless of industry or company size)
- Professionals in accounting, finance, taxation, legal affairs, intellectual property, labor relations, human resources strategy, etc.
Introduction to "Corporate Executive Certification - Learning Management Perspectives":
Features and Concept:
1) Real voices of CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs: 10 years of archives of lecture recordings and interview articles
2) AI-powered content creation: Extraction of management essence and conversion into examination questions and explanations
This is management education focused on judgment rather than knowledge, and on overall optimization rather than departmental optimization. All business professionals can freely learn the experiences, sensibilities, and value judgments of CXOs.
Example questions and explanations)
How to Enroll:
- Obtain a "My Account" on the Japan CFO Association website (https://www.cfo.jp/)
- New member registration: https://www.cfo.jp/MyAccount2/My_start/My_start.php
After obtaining "My Account," visit My Page (https://www.cfo.jp/MyAccount2/index.php)
Participate in the community site from the "Register for Community Site" banner
From the menu within the community site, select "Learning," then select the desired "Learning Plan" from "Find Badges/Learning Plans" and start learning.
The learning function will continue to develop and add courses sequentially as a completely free online corporate business school. Please look forward to it.
About "Corporate Executive Forum (CEF)":
An online community site jointly operated by the Japan CFO Association, CHRO Association, and CLO Association. It is operated as a platform for CXOs, including CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs, as well as corporate staff, to exchange information, learn, and interact on management issues.
With the addition of this learning function, it will evolve into a comprehensive learning and community platform that can consistently provide everything from knowledge acquisition to practical discussions.
About the Japan CFO Association:
The Japan CFO Association is a non-profit organization established to advance global management methods and ethics, particularly in accounting and finance for Japanese companies. It is the only international financial education institution in Japan recognized by IGTA (International Group of Treasury Associations) and IAFEI (International Association of Financial Executives Institutes). It supports the improvement of corporate financial performance by providing various management methods and technologies, and education and services aimed at enhancing the skills and career advancement of business professionals active in the management, accounting, and finance fields. Since 2005, it has operated the "FASS (Finance and Accounting Skill Standard) Certification" as a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry accounting and finance human resource development project.
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Through more than 10 years of association activities, the three associations have accumulated over 100 lecture recordings and interview articles by top-tier CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs in Japan. These archives contain "management decision-making criteria," "values," and "failures and lessons learned" that are not found in textbooks.
Generative AI has engaged with this archive, extracted the essence of management, and converted it into examination questions and explanations in the form of the "Corporate Executive Certification - Learning Management Perspectives."
Background and Issues Recognized:
While various educational programs exist in the management domain, many of them are limited to acquiring specialized knowledge in isolated silos. Even if one acquires expertise in accounting, finance, taxation, legal affairs, intellectual property, labor relations, and human resources strategy, structural issues such as "inability to make decisions across departments" and "unbridged gap in perspective with management" cannot be resolved simply by increasing knowledge.
Especially in an era where specialized knowledge can be replaced by AI, what is needed now is learning that allows one to vicariously experience "why a manager made a particular decision"—that is, not knowledge optimized for individual departments, but rather a way of thinking and judgment based on the perspective of "the entire corporation and its executives." The three associations have prepared the learning function and certification course as a framework to address this challenge.
Introduction to the Learning Function:
The learning function will sequentially add courses as a "completely free online corporate business school." Discussions and exchanges of opinions can also take place on the accompanying community.
Main Features:
- All online and completely free
- Visualization of achievement: Check learning progress and proficiency on a dashboard
- Smartphone compatible: Mobile learning utilizing spare time
- Community integration: Integration with discussion and exchange functions on CEF
Target Audience:
- All corporate staff (regardless of industry or company size)
- Professionals in accounting, finance, taxation, legal affairs, intellectual property, labor relations, human resources strategy, etc.
Introduction to "Corporate Executive Certification - Learning Management Perspectives":
Features and Concept:
1) Real voices of CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs: 10 years of archives of lecture recordings and interview articles
2) AI-powered content creation: Extraction of management essence and conversion into examination questions and explanations
This is management education focused on judgment rather than knowledge, and on overall optimization rather than departmental optimization. All business professionals can freely learn the experiences, sensibilities, and value judgments of CXOs.
Example questions and explanations)
How to Enroll:
- Obtain a "My Account" on the Japan CFO Association website (https://www.cfo.jp/)
- New member registration: https://www.cfo.jp/MyAccount2/My_start/My_start.php
After obtaining "My Account," visit My Page (https://www.cfo.jp/MyAccount2/index.php)
Participate in the community site from the "Register for Community Site" banner
From the menu within the community site, select "Learning," then select the desired "Learning Plan" from "Find Badges/Learning Plans" and start learning.
The learning function will continue to develop and add courses sequentially as a completely free online corporate business school. Please look forward to it.
About "Corporate Executive Forum (CEF)":
An online community site jointly operated by the Japan CFO Association, CHRO Association, and CLO Association. It is operated as a platform for CXOs, including CFOs, CHROs, and CLOs, as well as corporate staff, to exchange information, learn, and interact on management issues.
With the addition of this learning function, it will evolve into a comprehensive learning and community platform that can consistently provide everything from knowledge acquisition to practical discussions.
About the Japan CFO Association:
The Japan CFO Association is a non-profit organization established to advance global management methods and ethics, particularly in accounting and finance for Japanese companies. It is the only international financial education institution in Japan recognized by IGTA (International Group of Treasury Associations) and IAFEI (International Association of Financial Executives Institutes). It supports the improvement of corporate financial performance by providing various management methods and technologies, and education and services aimed at enhancing the skills and career advancement of business professionals active in the management, accounting, and finance fields. Since 2005, it has operated the "FASS (Finance and Accounting Skill Standard) Certification" as a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry accounting and finance human resource development project.
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