Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies

Author : Hamada Kazuki
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981310029X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management of Innovation Strategy in Japanese Companies written by Hamada Kazuki and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions. For effective innovation management, it is necessary to determine what provides new value to customers and achieve this new value efficiently, while solving the technical problems. This book explores how innovation management for industrial revitalization and activation are conducted in Japanese companies. 'Innovation' has diverse definitions, but the editors of this book have adopted the one proposed by J A Schumpeter. The features of innovation management in Japanese companies are considered systematically in the book. Positive analyses using questionnaires and innovation management strategy in individual industries and companies is also explored in detail.

Author : Nihon Keiei Gakkai
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110110074
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation and Management written by Nihon Keiei Gakkai and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis M. Branscomb
Publisher : CSIA Occasional Paper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Innovation Strategy written by Lewis M. Branscomb and published by CSIA Occasional Paper. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States. During the Spring of 1992, participants in a seminar at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government had the opportunity to explore in depth the views of a distinguished group of technical leaders from eight large Japanese industrial corporations. The focus of the seminar was to explore alternative views of the innovation process, examine approaches to managing innovation and setting technology strategy within the firm, and discuss the future of the business environment and management approaches. The examination of Japanese innovations in the management of technology that resulted from this seminar will be useful not only to technical managers in Japan, the United States, and other countries, but may also help inform public policy by shedding light on the sources of competitive advantage in both nations. Co-published with the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Author : Cornelius Herstatt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354031248X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan written by Cornelius Herstatt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Makes this Book Unique? No crystal ball is required to safely predict, that in the future – even more than in the past – mastered innovativeness will be a primary criterion distinguishing s- cessful from unsuccessful companies. At the latest since Michael Porter’s study on the competitiveness of nations, the same criterion holds even for the evaluation of entire countries and national economies. Despite the innumerable number of p- lications and recommendations on innovation, competitive innovativeness is still a rare competency. The latest publication of UNICE – the European Industry - ganization representing 20 million large, midsize and small companies – speaks a clear language: Europe qualifies to roughly 60% (70%) of the innovation strength of the US (Japan). The record unemployment in many EU countries does not c- tradict this message. A main reason may be given by the fact that becoming an innovative organi- tion means increased openness towards the new and more tolerance towards risks and failures, both challenging the inherently difficult management art of cultural change. Further, lacking innovativeness is often related to legal and fiscal barriers which rather hinder than foster innovative activities. Yet another reason to explain Europe’s notorious innovation gap refers to insufficient financial R&D resources on the company as well as on the national level. As a result, for example, hi- ranking decisions on the level of the European Commission are taken to increase R&D expenditures in the European Union from roughly 2% to 3% of GNP.

Author : Ikujiro Nonaka
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691373
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge-Creating Company written by Ikujiro Nonaka and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. The best companies survive by consistently creating new knowledge, disseminating it widely throughout the organization, and quickly leveraging it in their business processes and their products. In The Knowledge-Creating Company, Ikujiro Nonaka shows how your company can exploit its knowledge to continually innovate and reinvent itself in the face of relentless change. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030918438X
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Strategies for New Challenges written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation, "the process by which firms master and get into practice product designs and manufacturing processes that are new to them," is vital for companies wishing to remain competitive in today's rapidly changing high technology industries. American and Japanese firms are among the world's most technologically innovative and competitive. However, the changing dynamics of global competition are forcing them to rethink their technological innovation strategies. The choices they make will have great impact on their futures as companies as well as on the livelihoods of their employees and the communities in which they operate. In order to understand the ways in which Japanese and American companies are changing their technological innovation strategies and practices, the Committee on Japan of the National Research Council and the Committee on Advanced Technology and the International Environment (Committee 149) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) organized a bilateral task force composed of leading representatives from industry and academia to assess developments in corporate innovation strategies and report on their findings. Through a workshop discussion of the issues and subsequent interaction, the task force explored the institutional division of innovation in both countries: the structure and performance of technology-based industries, the role of the government in the support of science and technology, and the role of universities in the science and technology system. The task force was particularly interested in exploring the points on which the two systems are converging,-i.e., becoming more similar in strategy and practice-and where they continue to be distinct and different. Although a comprehensive study of these trends in U.S. and Japanese innovation was not easily feasible, the task force was able to develop several conclusions based on its workshop discussion and follow-up interactions that were substantial in time and content. This report identifies a set of issues whose further elucidation should be helpful in guiding public policy in both nations. These issues include the role of external sourcing of innovation, transnational activity and globalization, the organization and performance of R&D, and the role of consortia, joint ventures and other joint activities. A call for greater international efforts to collect and analyze data on these important trends is the central recommendation of the task force.

Author : 矢野俊介
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Management and Innovation Strategies written by 矢野俊介 and published by . This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Hugh Whittaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199297313
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovering from Success written by D. Hugh Whittaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes the following features: Identifies the source of thecompetitive problems Japan has been experiencing in the high-tech arena;Examines how Japan has responded to these problems and assesses its currentstanding; Considers the role of the Management of Technology (MOT) movement;Contributions from expert Japanese and Western academics and practitionersresearching and working in this area; The editors provide a context-settingintroduction, and thought-provoking concluding chapter

Author : Chihiro Watanabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781282825154
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Innovation in Japan written by Chihiro Watanabe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some country's hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology both between Japanese companies and between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China. This book shows that institutional systems such as culture, tradition, consumers and local business practices play key roles in how companies develop technology. These factors also influence the very characteristics of the products that the hi-tech firms produce. With a number of case studies the author demonstrates how the most successful and innovative companies recognize these roles and incorporate them into their practices.

Author : P. Haghirian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023025053X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation and Change in Japanese Management written by P. Haghirian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Innovation and Change in Japanese Management' shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade. The book presents new research results and investigates the variety of changes that Japanese corporations and managers have experienced in recent years.