Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Herstatt, Cornelius (Editor), Stockstrom, Christoph (Editor), Tschirky, Hugo (Editor), Nagahira, Akio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Designing the Product Architecture for High Appropriability: The Case of Canon
• Case Study Shimano: Market Creation Through Component Integration
• Invisible Dimensions of Innovation: Strategy for De-commoditization in the Japanese Electronics Industry
• The Customer System and New Product Development: The Material Supplier’s Strategy in Japan
• The Japanese Know-Who Based Model of Innovation Management — Reducing Risk at High Speed
• The Domestic Shaping of Japanese Innovations
• Exploiting “Interface Capabilities” in Overseas Markets: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Handset Manufacturers in the US
• “Fuzzy Front End” Practices in Innovating Japanese Companies
• Implementing Process Innovation — The Case of the Toyota Production System
• Reorientation in Product Development for Multiproject Management: The Toyota Case
• Suppliers’ Involvement in New Product Development in the Japanese Auto Industry — A Case Study from a Product Architecture Perspective
• NPD-Process and Planning in Japanese Engineering Companies — Findings from an Interview Research
• Japanese New Product Advantage: A Comparative Examination
• Differences in the Internationalization of Industrial R&D in the Triad
• Global Innovation and Knowledge Flows in Japanese and European Corporations
• Reducing Project Related Uncertainty in the “Fuzzy Front End” of Innovation — A Comparison of German and Japanese Product Innovation Projects
• From Practice: IP Management in Japanese Companies
• MoT: From Academia to Management Practice — The MoT Implementation Case in a Traditional Japanese Company.