JSRP Alignment Sprint — From Stalled Discussion to Decision in Japan

A four-week intervention on your live deal, negotiation or rollout. We map who actually carries the decision on the Japanese side, rebuild your proposal into a form that can travel their organisation, and rehearse the meeting that matters — before you walk into it.

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At a glance

Timeline: About 4 weeks · flexes 4–8 around your deal calendar
Format: An engagement of ±30 hours of case analysis, punctuated by working sessions
Who joins: The deal team — typically 2–6 people
You keep: Six working artefacts built from your actual case

Usually preceded by a Diagnostic, which is credited into the Sprint if you continue within 60 days.

Fit and process

Built around one live case — not a curriculum.

This is for you if

You recognise your situation here

A negotiation, contract or co-development with a Japanese counterpart has to move this quarter
A global initiative has to actually land in Japan this time
You know roughly where it is stuck — a Diagnostic or your own analysis has told you — and now it has to be worked
Your team will still be dealing with this counterpart next year, so the capability should stay in-house

What happens

Four staged working sessions

Charter — fix the scope: which decision, which meeting, which counterpart, what success looks like
Map — deciders, influencers, promoters, resisters; where consensus stands; what silence and repeat questions mean here
Redesign — rebuild the proposal and the communication protocol around every meeting
Rehearse — a live simulation of your actual upcoming meeting, then the 90-day operating plan

Between sessions we work on your documents: proposals, minutes, correspondence — read the way the Japanese side reads them.

What you receive

Six artefacts. Zero slides about Japan.

Working documents built from your case — your team keeps using them after we leave.

Six JSRP working tools for stakeholder mapping, message adaptation, trust building and Japan business execution

Engagement CharterScope, stakeholders, success measures, weekly rhythm
Stakeholder & Decision MapWho carries the decision — formally and actually
Risk & Trust Signal MapWhat silence, delay and repeat questions mean in this deal
Message Translation CanvasYour proposal, rebuilt so the other side can defend it internally
Meeting & Follow-up ProtocolBefore, during and after every meeting — designed, not improvised
90-Day Operating PlanOwners, deadlines, checkpoints, early-warning signs

How the four weeks run

ConfidentialityNDA before documents

An NDA is signed before we read anything. Standard template available — or yours.

How we work →

ConflictsOne side of a deal only

We never advise both parties to the same negotiation. Conflict policy in writing.

Conflict policy →

InvoicingFee confirmed before we start

Agreed in writing at charter; staged invoicing available.

Company details →

Industrial energy terminal representing a Europe–Japan business engagement involving complex stakeholder and decision-making structures

Case study: The Japanese partner seemed slow. The real problem was a buffer no one had noticed.

How a global heavy industry company made direct dialogue with a long-term Japanese supplier work — JSRP - Alignment Sprint, six sessions.

Read the case

Which meeting are you preparing for?

Bring the case to a 30-minute call. We will tell you whether a Sprint fits — and honestly if it does not.

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