Lumission Launches “President’s Doppelganger” Partner Program for SME Management Consultant Offices

Lumission Inc., headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, has launched a partner program for its management support service “President’s Doppelganger,” aimed at offices of Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultants. The program provides a framework that enables SME Management Consultant offices to introduce management support services to their client companies and business owners. Through the initiative, Lumission aims to help client companies solve management issues while increasing the added value of consulting offices and creating new revenue opportunities. In recent years, SME Management Consultant offices have increasingly received inquiries not only about management analysis, business planning, and subsidy support, but also about execution and organizational challenges. Typical concerns include strategies that have been organized but not implemented, subsidies that do not lead to sales improvement, organizations that rely too heavily on individuals and stop growing, challenges in hiring and retention, and business plans that fail to move frontline teams into action. However, the core expertise of SME Management Consultant offices is often management analysis and strategy formulation, and it can be difficult for them to provide in-depth support in areas such as sales design, organizational development, and daily operational improvement. As a result, many offices feel they cannot provide sufficient support for client concerns, that strategy planning does not connect to execution, and that improvement proposals often end as temporary measures. The new partner program was designed to address these issues. Lumission proposes a new support model that combines strategy organization with management support to raise the added value of SME Management Consultant offices. By becoming involved in client companies’ management challenges, the program may help support sales and profit improvement, organizational development and systemization, stronger execution capabilities, continuous relationship building, and the creation of new revenue opportunities. The company places the concept of “five-way good management” at the center of its management philosophy: good for the company, good for employees, good for customers, good for society, and good for the next generation. This approach aims not for only some companies to benefit, but for all stakeholders to achieve a win-win relationship. The partner program is also designed based on this philosophy. Many SME Management Consultant offices currently rely on business models centered on subsidy application support, business plan preparation, and spot consulting. Such structures can make customer relationships short-term, make it difficult for proposals to penetrate through execution, and make it harder to generate recurring revenue. Lumission aims to build a business that stays involved in customers’ management over the long term, rather than simply selling a single service. To achieve this, it is important for specialized firms such as SME Management Consultant offices, tax accountant offices, labor and social security attorney offices, financial institutions, and management consulting companies to collaborate as partners. Under this structure, customers can receive support from strategy through execution, partner companies can maximize their expertise, and long-term relationships can be built. When SME Management Consultant offices receive inquiries from clients about stalled execution, organizational systemization, connecting subsidies to sales, or clarifying standards for management decisions, they can introduce “President’s Doppelganger” to support the resolution of client management issues. This framework can create new value such as sales and profit improvement support, organizational improvement and systemization, and higher customer satisfaction. The partner program is expected to offer several benefits for participating offices, including improved customer satisfaction, continuous relationship building, new revenue opportunities, and differentiation through a position that combines strategy and execution support. Japan has approximately four million companies, but many SMEs lack partners that can support strategy and execution in an integrated way. Lumission aims to work with SME Management Consultant offices nationwide to build a support network that integrates management strategy with execution support. This partner program is the first step toward that goal. Program overview: The target participants are SME Management Consultant offices. The program involves introducing management support services to client companies. Compensation is up to 750,000 yen per company per year. Interested parties are asked to contact the company for details. Company overview: Lumission Inc. is located at Shinagawa East One Tower 7F, 2-16-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its businesses include management consulting, corporate growth support, and promotion of five-way good management.