SERVICES
What ASHR does
Every service starts from the same question: what will this organization run into next, and what should be done before it arrives?
01
Strategic HR consulting
Hands-on support across HR: HR strategy built backward from the business plan, HR organization design, job leveling, performance review and pay frameworks, recruitment process outsourcing, and HR product implementation.
For founders, CEOs and CHROs
02
HR due diligence and post-merger integration
HR due diligence before a deal, and integration afterward: aligning employment terms, leveling and pay, retaining key people, and redesigning the organization. Built on M&A experience at Recruit and SMS.
For acquirers and investors in Japan
03
Portfolio support for investment funds
HR programs and mentoring for a fund's portfolio companies, including HR acceleration programs for seed-stage startups.
For VC and PE funds
04
HR talent placement
Placement of HR professionals, from defining what your HR team needs to introducing candidates. Licensed fee-charging employment placement business in Japan (No. 13-ユ-316084).
For companies building their HR team in Japan
05
AI-coached goal-setting tool and training
Every participant gets an AI coach that does not hand over answers. It keeps asking why they think what they think and what they may be missing, so people practice the order of thinking behind good goals. The scale of group training with the depth of one-to-one coaching.
For HR and learning teams
06
Launch and growth support for HR businesses
Advice and sales support for companies launching or growing an HR business, through to adoption by customers.
For HR service and HR tech companies
FOR INVESTORS
How we work with investors in Japan
Because a Japanese organization cannot simply be reset, the people decisions made before and right after a deal shape the years that follow. We support each phase.
BEFORE THE DEAL
HR due diligence
- Key people and how much the business depends on them
- Labor compliance risks, including working hours and overtime pay
- Employment terms, levels and pay, and the gaps between entities
- The company's growth stage and the walls it will hit next
FIRST 100 DAYS
Integration plan
- Retention of key people
- Aligning employment terms, job levels and pay
- Management team and organization design
- Communication to employees
VALUE CREATION
Growth-stage reviews
- An HR strategy aligned with the value creation plan
- Reviews ahead of each growth wall
- Hiring HR leaders through our placement business
Engagements are run mainly in Japanese, remotely or on site in Japan. You can contact us in English. Scope and timelines are agreed for each deal.
Clients include KOKUYO, Benesse Corporation, BuySell Technologies, kubell, PERSOL Digital Ventures, SP.LINKS (formerly Sony Payment Services), hacomono, Findy, BATONZ and MOTA. See all client projects (in Japanese)
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