椎橋 徹夫（しいはし てつお）は、企業のAI活用と事業開発に取り組む経営コンサルタント、実業家。米国州立テキサス大学で物理学と数学を学び、卒業後はボストン コンサルティング グループに参画した。消費財や流通などの経営課題を扱い、社内のデジタル部門やビッグデータ活用チームの立ち上げに携わった。2014年から東京大学工学系研究科の松尾 豊研究室で、産学連携、データサイエンス教育、企業連携の仕組みづくりに従事。同時に東京大学発のAIスタートアップに創業期のメンバーとして加わり、AI事業部の立ち上げを主導した。2016年にLaboro.AIを創業し、代表取締役CEOに就任した。田辺 遼との共著『日本企業はAIでどう稼ぐか――既存事業の売上を伸ばす事業深化』（英語併記題 “How Japanese Companies Make Money with AI”）では、400を超えるAIプロジェクトの伴走実績を背景に、コスト削減と新規市場の創出のあいだにある既存事業の成長を検討した。顧客基盤や業務データ、現場の知識を起点に売上を伸ばす方法を「事業深化」と位置づけ、AIモデルの精度だけでなく、業務プロセスの設計、プロジェクトの進め方、人材と組織の整備からAI導入を論じた。
Tetsuo Shiihashi is a management consultant and entrepreneur working on corporate applications of artificial intelligence and business development. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Texas and joined Boston Consulting Group after graduation. His consulting work included consumer goods and distribution, and he helped establish the firm’s digital operations and big-data team. From 2014, he worked with Yutaka Matsuo’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo on industry–university collaboration, data-science education and frameworks for corporate partnerships. At the same time, he joined a University of Tokyo AI startup during its founding period and led the establishment of its AI business division. He founded Laboro.AI in 2016 and became its representative director and CEO. With Ryo Tanabe, he wrote the Japanese-language book 日本企業はAIでどう稼ぐか――既存事業の売上を伸ばす事業深化, whose cover also carries the English title How Japanese Companies Make Money with AI. Drawing on experience supporting more than 400 AI projects, the book examined the growth opportunities within existing businesses between cost reduction and the creation of new markets. It described how customer relationships, operational data and practical knowledge can become starting points for increasing revenue. Alongside this approach to deepening existing businesses, it examined workflow design, project management and the people and organizational structures needed to implement AI.
