Future Center
A place that connects dreams to reality and ideas to implementation
Fostering a “place” to promote corporate transformation based on the “Future Center” idea of intellectual capital.
A “place” is created through the integrated design and management of four elements: people, space, time, and effort. Furthermore, in order to maintain and develop such a place, strategies to build, measure, and disseminate objectives are indispensable. The success or failure of a place depends on the ability of a single team to build these complex elements in an integrated manner.
Challenges Our clients Face
Covid measures have reduced the number of interactions between employees and with customers, preventing the accidental inspiration of ideas.
We want a “BA” where cognitive functions are stimulated and inspiration arises through interaction with people, society, and nature.
The innovation center has been created, but the vision and roadmap to realize the vision have not been drawn, and the facility is not being used effectively.
How did we help?
In addition to designing the “place” from both the hardware and software aspects, we also provide continuous monitoring and support to help the organization transform itself until it becomes an organization that can fully utilize the “place”. Furthermore, we will provide a place where human resources who can change companies can gather, utilizing our know-how from operating the “Future Center” based on intellectual capital management and our network of innovation centers in Japan and overseas and the willingness of people to gather there.
We have a system in place to manage the complex elements of both hardware and software from the following three perspectives.
- Cultivation of innovative human resources and provision of co-creation networks
- Building innovation strategies
- Design and construction of space
Our Presence
Our Services
Design, design, and operational support for innovation centers
ICMG supports the implementation of open innovation by supporting co-creation with the diverse stakeholders in ICMG's network, while making making the invisible ideas and value that lie dormant within companies tangible.
Our Future Centers
Our Experts
We create something of value to society.
Hitoshi Funahashi
ICMG Group President, Founder and Group CEO
Chairman, Management and Intellectual Assets Subcommittee, Industrial Structure Council/New Growth Policy Subcommittee, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Vice-Chairman of the New Business Creation Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Stable Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Activation Committee, and Executive Director of the Economic and Social Friendship Association.
Senior Managing Director, Japan Innovation Network
MBA, Waseda University Graduate School, Ph.
Founder and President of ICMG Co. He has worked in a general trading company in the development and export of chemical products for overseas markets and handling national bidding projects, until he joined Recruit Co. Ltd. in 1987. After working in the Human Resources General Service Division and the New Business Development Office, he founded the Business Incubation Division in 1996. He then launched the magazine "Entre" and provided a variety of services including "magazine," "internet," "events," and "individual consulting" as support services for venture companies. In 2000, he founded Accel, Inc. as a successor to the business support project.In 2001, the company partnered with Intellectual Capital AB, a Swedish intellectual capital rating company, to license and develop a Japanese version of IC Rating®, a method for evaluating the actual value of a company that cannot be shown on its balance sheet. In 2003, he took a stake in the company, and in 2010, he made it a subsidiary. Today, ICMG is an advocate of intellectual capitalism that ensures fair and appropriate profits for corporate stakeholders, including management, employees, business partners, customers, and shareholders, and conducts research and practice of ICMG's unique "Intellectual Capital Management" method.
The power of conception and design, possessed by architects, will pave the way for the landscape of the 22nd century.
Masaya Shioura
ICMG Future Center Design
Representative Director of SCAPE, First-Class Architect
Established the Nikken Activity Design lab
Waseda University Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Program (Construction Engineering)
As an architect at Nikken Sekkei Inc., he designed Tokyo Skytree Town and the Yamato Group Haneda Chronogate. In 2014, he established Nikken Activity Design Lab as a cross-disciplinary department directly under the president. He became the general manager at Nikken Sekkei in 2016. Following that in 2018, he became independent and then established SCAPE Inc. with the vision of "the landscape of the 22nd century."Since then, he has been promoting projects to enhance the value of "places" in cities and companies by making full use of design thinking. As CDO of ICMG, he is in charge of design direction for ICMG's Future Center Tokyo (2020), Kiriboshi Bank's Kic Space HANEDA (2021), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Future Lab Haneda (2021).
Leif Edvinsson
ICMG Executive Advisor
Head of New Club of Paris
University of Lund professor
Honorary Chair, Henley KM Forum, UK
Selected as one of the "50 most influential thinkers in the world"
(London Business Press, 2006)
University of California, Berkeley Graduate (MBA)
As the first Corporate Director of Intellectual Capital of Skandia in Sweden, he developed the theory of intellectual capital management and contributed significantly to the company's intellectual capital-based corporate growth.A professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Honorary Chair of the Henley KM Forum, UK, he has been involved in the supervision of intellectual capital reports as one of the European Commission's high-level experts. He is currently President of the New Club of Paris.