A Practitioner with Three Blades (Private Sector, University, Shinkin Bank) Publishes First Management Support Book

Our company, 'Wellness Kit Inc.' (hereinafter Wellness Kit), has provided planning and editing support for the new book 'This is Shinkin Bank Management Support: Hands-on Assistance to Create Bright Financial Results,' authored by Koichi Tozawa, as part of our verbalization support service 'President's Ghostwriter.' Mr. Tozawa is active as a management and technical advisor, having previously served as a production engineer for an automaker and a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology.

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Our corporate philosophy of 'creating healthy habits for a 100-year life era' and Mr. Tozawa's lifework of 'management improvement for SMEs' may seem like two different domains at first glance. However, they are connected by a strong underlying desire to 'provide care to keep society permanently healthy.'

Furthermore, this book re-evaluates the role of regional financial institutions in SME management improvement and details the importance of a new approach called 'hands-on support.' By doing so, it aims to provide a practical guide based on specific improvement cases in the field, laying the foundation for future management support.

Historical Background The role of regional financial institutions in improving SME management is being re-questioned. Moving beyond the traditional function of lending, terms like 'hands-on support' and 'management improvement support' have begun to permeate the front lines of Shinkin banks. However, a practical book that systematically demonstrates 'how to improve on the ground' did not exist until now.

Author Profile Koichi Tozawa After learning field improvement, IE (Industrial Engineering) methods, and mold technology as an engineer in the manufacturing industry, he engaged in industry-academia collaborative research as a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology. He has served as a management and technical advisor for Shinkin banks (Jonan Shinkin Bank, Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank) and leads hands-on management improvement support for small and medium-sized manufacturing and retail businesses.

A practitioner who traverses the three domains of 'knowing the manufacturing field, having an academic/educational perspective, and stepping into management as a financial institution' is extremely rare both domestically and internationally. This experience makes this book not just a theoretical text, but a 'practical book born from the field.'