This document outlines a seminar on project management given by Kazuaki Oda. The seminar used a case study approach to teach participants about effectively managing projects through teamwork and problem solving. Participants were split into groups to develop solutions to the problem of air pollution in India. The seminar covered lessons on time management, feasibility studies, budgeting, teamwork, problem solving, and effective communication.

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“Project Management”
-How does a team work effectively?-
Kazuaki Oda/Satoshi Nagata
IISc Skill-up Seminar , 6th February (Sat), 2021

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#Serial Entrepreneur #Professor #Consultant
#Investor #Athlete #Mathematics #Keynote Speaker,,
-K Consulting Co., Ltd (CEO)
-Nagoya University (Visiting Professor)
-SLOGAN Inc.（Co-Founder & Executive Fellow）
-IIT Kharagpur, IISc, Indian Institutes of Management,
IIT Hyderabad, National University of Singapore,
Institut Teknologi Bandung, University of Indonesia
（Guest Lecturer）
Kazuaki ODA (織田一彰)

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1997 Accenture@Chicago

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Hello, IISc Again!

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<Agenda & Timeline>
-Opening and introduction
-Workshop(case study in teams) *30 min
-Presentation time *2min
-Feedback and review
-Lesson learned today

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＜The Objectives of Today’s Seminar＞
We will learn about
“Project Management”
through a case study in a team

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<Keywords>
“Project Management”
“Problem Solving”
“Teamwork”

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<Typical Failures in Projects>
・Missing deadline with excuses=>Time management
・Not meeting expected qualities: Quality management
・Over-budgeting: How much does it need?
・Teams collapsed=>Teamwork
・Misunderstanding the problem=>Problem solving

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<Case Study by Satoshi Nagata>

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Today’s seminar purpose
•How to work with global researchers outside
India
•Learn the global standard of project
management
•Exercise the actual essences via case study
approach

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Essence of the global project
management
•Time deadline is literally time deadline, no
exception
•Output is the everything that can evaluate you
•Provide the output by the team not by yourself
as an individual

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Don’ts in the global project
•Violating the deadline
•Just pushing your opinion
•No quality check till the deadline

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Case study regulation
•30 mins workshop
•5 people in one team
• 2min presentation(90 sec ring, 120 sec end)
•4w1h(when, who, what, where, how) criteria
• Please provide your plan for the case agenda

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Case study criteria
•Please provide the factors that make worse the
air pollution in India.
•Please figure out the solution for prevention
of air pollution.
•Based on the sector(Private, Government,
Others) you have chosen, you can define the
solution.
•Please provide the target figure for air
pollution and the economic effects for the
prevention of air pollution.

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Case study agenda: air pollution
in India
•These days, air pollution is the severe social
problem in India now.
•In the WHO report, north India cities were
nominated the worst air polluted cities in the
world ranking.
•Although COVID19 lockdown happened, air
pollution level was getting worse after the
festival season.
•Based on these situation, please let us know
the solution idea for preventing the severe air
pollution in India.

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Data of air pollution in India(1)

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Data of air pollution in India(2)

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Project review
• Teamwork
• Output level
• Time management
• Solutions quality
• Issue statement

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Case study model answer
1.What are the factors of air pollution?
a.Automobile? Agriculture? Factory? Living gases?
b.Specify the key factors of air pollution in India
2.What kind of approach you may have?
a.How is the efficiency?
b.Can you measure the impact of the solution?
c.To whom are you going to approach?
3.Explain about the solution details and
technology
a.How do you make differences compared with
other way?
b.How much does it cost? Do you have any factors?
c.Please let us know the action plan to spread the
solutions in India.

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Model answer to case study
• Solution Idea: Air cleaner devices put on
factories and automobiles
• To whom: Automobile companies, and GOI
• Technology: promoters for anti air pollution
• Cost: 100USD/Unit
• How to distribute?: B to B and B to G
• How to penetrate?: Make in India or Grant by
Japanese government
• Solutions action plan:
• POC with some automobiles and factories
• Negotiate with GOI
• After POC, distribute factories

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<Review and Feedback by Kazuaki Oda>

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<Lessons learned through this case study>
・Time management: Be punctual!
・Feasibility study: Is that possibly done?
・Budgeting: How much does it need?
・Teamwork: Does the team work effectively?
・Problem solving: Does the situation get better?

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<Effective Communication in a Projects>
・Facts or Opinions(“I think <opinion> because<fact>”)
・Listen First then Insist
・Accept Different Opinions
・Ask “Why” , Ask “How”
・Keep in Mind “3 Elements of Project”

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Cost
Delivery
Quality
<3 Elements of Project>
Time vs Quality
Quality vs Cost
Cost vs Time

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<Priority Matrix>
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>urgent>
^important^
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ケース面接の解き方
(1)Problem
Definition
(2)Analyze
Situations
(3)Solve
Issues
(4)Implement
Strategy
<Problem Solving>
Analytical
Thinking
Creative
Thinking

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