[Business Strategy Simulation] Moving Beyond Reliance on Individuals | A Manual for Fast-Tracking New Business Plans with AI

Is your company's "future" locked inside the heads of just a few people?

Labor shortages, veteran retirements... Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that form the backbone of the economy—such as those in hospitality, food service, and manufacturing—are facing a serious challenge: "Strategy Individualization," where management expertise and future visions depend entirely on specific individuals.

Business challenges caused by individualization:

• Stalled Business Succession:
  Management know-how isn't verbalized or systematized, making it difficult to train the next generation of leaders.
• Innovation Draught:
  Even when new ideas emerge, they rarely go beyond individual rules of thumb. Without objective market analysis or feasibility checks, they often end up as mere "pie in the sky."
• Delayed Organizational Decision-Making:
  Situations where "nothing can be decided without that specific person" become the norm, slowing the company's response to market changes.

By reading this article, you will learn how to build a concrete system for envisioning and executing the future as an entire organization by gaining a powerful partner: AI.

AI Becomes Your "Outside Director" and "Corporate Planning Department"

mitsumonoAI integrates specialized AI knowledge and strategy-planning tools to solve these deep-rooted management issues. It provides an experience like having an experienced outside director and a data-savvy corporate planning team participate in your strategy meetings.

• Sensei AI (The Outside Director):
  Trained on industry-specific expertise and success stories in areas like hospitality and real estate. It offers practical feedback and identifies new possibilities for your ideas from an industry-specific perspective.
• New Business Development Assistant (The Corporate Planning Department):
  Structurally organizes your ideas, market data, and internal circumstances to build a feasible business plan outline. This includes specific target settings, revenue projections, and risk analysis.
• Mission Feature (The Company-wide Compass):
  By verbalizing project goals and values and sharing them with the AI, all analysis and proposals are based on a vision agreed upon by the entire company, rather than individual whims.

By linking these AI tools, the implicit knowledge previously held in one person's head is converted into "explicit knowledge" that anyone can understand and execute, dramatically improving the organization's strategic planning capabilities.

Step-by-Step: A Strategy Simulation to "End Reliance on Individuals"

In this example, we’ll walk through a scenario where a long-established Japanese inn (ryokan) creates a new business plan themed around "attracting customers during the off-season."

Step 1: [Mission Registration] Install the Project's "Soul" into the AI

First, verbalize the core of the project—"for what purpose, for whom, and what do you want to deliver"—as a "Mission" to share the strategic direction with the AI.

[Preparation & Execution]
Open "My Mission" from the mitsumonoAI settings screen and enter the project overview.

Step 2: [Sensei AI] Brainstorm "Winning Ideas" with Industry-Specific AI

Next, talk to the industry-specific Sensei AI to sharpen the focus of business ideas based on the Mission.

[Preparation & Execution]
Launch Sensei AI - Hospitality and consult frankly about the mission overview and current challenges.

*OTA: Online Travel Agency (e.g., Booking.com, Expedia).

Through this step, the AI suggests several specific and feasible ideas that leverage your company's unique strengths.

Step 3: [New Business Development Assistant] Structure Ideas into a "Business Plan"

Turn the ideas gained from brainstorming with Sensei AI into a concrete, systematic business plan.

[Preparation & Execution]
Launch the New Business Development Assistant and input the Mission info and ideas from Sensei AI.

This step visualizes the ideas as a structured business plan outline, including specific revenue goals, cost structures, marketing strategies, and potential risks.

Step 4: [GPT-5 Thinking] Thoroughly Eliminate Plan "Blind Spots"

Finally, talk to an AI with advanced reasoning capabilities to identify weaknesses and risks in the finished plan, maximizing its precision.

[Preparation & Execution]
Launch GPT-5 Thinking (AI Chat), present the business plan from Step 3, and ask for a review from a critical perspective.

This step uncovers real-world issues that could occur on the ground, dramatically improving the plan's clarity and feasibility.

Applications: Creating an "Execution Plan" to Involve the Whole Company

Business plans completed through this process can be expanded into concrete action plans.

• Promotion & PR:
  Based on the business core (Mission), use the Naming Assistant to decide on new plan names or the SNS Strategy Planner to design specific posting schedules.
• Product Development:
  Use the Recipe Development Chef to further refine the "gibier" menu at the heart of the plan or develop new souvenir products.

Summary

This article introduced 4 specific steps for using AI as a strategic partner to move away from management that relies on specific individuals.

• Step 1: Define the Mission, the "soul" of the project.
• Step 2: Create "winning ideas" with industry-specific AI.
• Step 3: Structure those ideas into a feasible "business plan."
• Step 4: Thoroughly eliminate plan "blind spots."

AI is a powerful catalyst that converts a manager's vision or a veteran's implicit knowledge into "explicit knowledge" that everyone can understand and execute.

Move from management that relies on a single genius to management where the entire organization creates the future. Why not take that first step with AI?

mitsumonoAI is a specialized AI platform designed to simultaneously improve the quality and speed of business operations.

In addition to strategic planning, it can be used to solve various business challenges, improve efficiency, and create new value for your company.