Below are several of the more insightful questions asked by new team members and recent additions to the Global Professional Network about Japonica InterSect’s unique business model and our rapid expansion on multiple continents.

Japonica InterSect professionals relentlessly search the globe for top quartile benchmarks and high value-adding best practices that significantly increase performance. Our 228,480 hours researching and analyzing benchmarks and best practices equate to traveling around the world 5,146 times! We are fluent in 8 languages. Currently, team members are located in North America and Southwest Asia. Our Global Professional Network spans experts on six continents.

2. HOW DOES THE FIRM RESEARCH AND ANALYZE GLOBAL

BENCHMARKS AND BEST PRACTICES?

With passionate intensity, Japonica InterSect engages in a proprietary research and analysis process that focuses exclusively on intersectoral commerce among the world’s 110 developing economies, including the BRICs. Our team cultivates global networks of professionals, currently 217 strong, that contribute expertise and information resources to the benchmarking and best practice research and analysis process.

1. DESCRIBE JAPONICA INTERSECT’S DCC CORE COMPETENCY.

Discovering, Changing, Creating. DCC adds the highest value when performance really matters. We Discover top quartile benchmarks and high value-adding best practices; we Change performance expectations through market responsive research and analysis, and we Create value by providing actionable management-level TQBs and HVA BPs. We embed DCC in our DNA.

2. HOW DOES THE FIRM’S DCC SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE

PERFORMANCE?

Discovering, Changing, and Creating frame our research and analysis on top quartile benchmarks and high value-adding best practices. This uncommon focus is in our team DNA. In each of our 10 Intersectoral Programs, DCC research and analysis identifies the substantial gap between the top quartile and the bottom quartile and reports the highest value-adding best practices for improving performance. Intersectoral commerce performance metrics include: positive growth, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, cost reduction, value creation, and ROI.

3. HOW DID JAPONICA INTERSECT EVOLVE?

Japonica InterSect was founded in 2002 to provide global benchmarking and best practice research for a global, private operating foundation, the Charles & Agnes Kazarian Eternal Foundation (CAKE). True to the capitalist-philanthropist principles espoused in New Philanthropy Benchmarking, CAKE demands top quartile performance. As a captive subsidiary, JI provides the high value-adding tools for CAKE and its global network of capitalist-philanthropists to substantially increase their mission critical performance.

Established in 1998, the CAKE Foundation has grown rapidly to 77 professionals across four continents. Primary projects focus on three sectors: economic development, education & athletics, and technology. Programs span the globe from the United States to Armenia and Israel. To date, CAKE programs have benefited more than 1,500 individuals in developing economies. Average annual distributions target 10% of assets. The Foundation’s financial metrics also have grown exponentially.

1. WHAT ARE JAPONICA INTERSECT’S METRICS OF TRACK RECORD

GROWTH?

Japonica InterSect is relentlessly driven when performance really matters. We focus on performance and results with the greatest impact to our parent, the CAKE Foundation, and their global network of capitalist-philanthropists. Naturally, we also focus internally to continuously assess and improve our own performance track record. As of March 2009, JI continues to set new DCC growth metrics records with:

220 Titles; 772 Backlog Titles; 479 benchmarks and 760 best practices discovered; 228,480 hours of research (114 man-years); more than 9,600 source materials analyzed; 1,026 days of training, and more than 217 professionals in our global network.

2. WHAT ARE THE FIRM’S PLANS FOR FUTURE GROWTH?

JI’s future growth is inherent in our firm’s description: Global, Unique, and Growing. Japonica University leads our charge for proprietary intellectual processes. Our Titles and Backlog will continue to increase in all 10 Programs.

CAKE’s aggressive goals will push JI to higher levels of performance to rank among the world’s benchmark public companies. The Foundation projects five-year solid double digit growth, empowered by Japonica InterSect’s DCC research and analysis. Both organizations share a positive team chemistry that cultivates superior performance.

3. WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO ATTEND JAPONICA UNIVERSITY?

Japonica InterSect’s professionals attend Japonica University for intensive training and education for continuous assessment and improvement. Highly-challenging courses, taught by experts, address practical and relevant topics in finance, mathematics, statistics, economics, political science, law, and sociology. The world is our classroom. JI professionals travel to developing countries as well as major economic centers to attend conferences and advance career development. Japonica University emphasizes interactive learning, critical thinking, and performance. To date, Japonica University has dedicated more than 1,026 days of training per JI professional.