The final competition of the 2023 College Student Consulting Competition (ConCom), which deals with actual corporate issues, was held on September 2023, 9 at the Shinagawa Campus of Tokai University. Won 16st place.
This time's challenge was ``Effective ways to recruit part-time delivery workers for university students'' proposed by Anycarry Co., Ltd., which develops logistics solutions specializing in short-distance and last-mile logistics, in order to solve the 2024 logistics problem.Ten finalist teams who had passed the initial document screening participated in the final competition, and university students competed with their innovative ideas.
The winning team was "Funwari Kitsune," a team made up of third-year students from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Tokyo University of Science.With the theme of stimulating communication between delivery workers, we included communication measures such as a photo contest for part-time delivery workers and a friend introduction campaign, as well as ideas focused on student needs, such as an on-campus delivery service.
Second place went to Tokai University's Team Suzuki.The idea was to acquire human resources by establishing a referral recruitment system based on university groups such as club activities and clubs.
Third place goes to Takachiho University's "IOW."The idea was to place an advertisement on disposable chopstick bags in school cafeterias to appeal to students, the target group, and the judges gave a smart presentation that included case studies. "Presentation" was praised.
In addition, Jumonji Gakuen Women's University's ``Ninjin 8'' received the Encouragement Award for its advertising idea that focuses on bicycle delivery and targets students who belong to cycling groups.Hosei University's "Chimaru" won the Special Jury Prize for ideas that focused on women's success in the logistics industry, where the ratio of women is small, such as creating an environment that is easy for women to work in and a system that allows female users to specify delivery by a female delivery person. was awarded.
Hidenobu Kozaki, CEO of AnyCare Co., Ltd., said, ``The content of each team's proposals was excellent, each team member's strengths were utilized, and all of the proposals could be used immediately in business settings. I am very surprised. I will do my best to cooperate with you in the action part (a program where you put your ideas into practice) that follows, so I would be happy if you could gain even more experience." did.
At ConCom, there is not only a presentation part where participants present their solution ideas, but also an ``action part'' where participants work together with problem-providing companies to give concrete form to their ideas.In principle, this is an initiative that has the aspect of an internship, in which the winning team's ideas at a presentation competition are realized over a period of about six months together with the company providing the assignment.Participants are invited not only from the winning team but also from all the teams who participated in the presentation part, and anyone who wishes to participate can participate.
