Some business consulting firms in Japan gradually changed their major business domain from business management diagnosis service to systems integration service after 1990s when they suffered from economic recession in Japan. In this paper, the reasons of the shift are discussed from academic points of view, quoting related literatures as for key performance indicators in professional service firm, value network and isomorphism.

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In this paper, it is claimed as the method of the local design towards reproduction of “Setouchi” that a context design is effective. Since the name of a place called Setouchi differs from an administration unit, it is necessary to practice not the local design that was based official name and on contents but the local design which was based on the context. For that purpose, probably, it will be desirable to perform context conversion from three viewpoints of a conceptual zone design, the constellation design, and a topos design.

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Recent years witness the fast increasing role of the brand value that plays in the valuation of a corporation. To properly administer a company's band, it is necessary to evaluate the band. Traditionally the medium of brand valuation exists in the aspects of accuracy, objectivity, economy, measurability, operability and so on. This paper explores the existing brand valuation models in the brand building for cosmetic companies, which is a crucial and indispensable subject. In this study, the brand value of several cosmetic companies is diagnosed based on the existing brand valuation models.

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The purpose of this article is to examine the contributions of applying of practice concepts to modeling of value co-creation. At first, two research topics relevant to value co-creation modeling were briefly reviewed. One was what leads value co-creation actions of customers and another was how value co-creations unite each other. After reviewing the practice concept and examining application of the concepts to these topics, following two contributions were revealed: by applying of practice concepts, customer behaviors in value co-creation could be explained in terms of socio-cultural aspects; by using the concepts such as bundles and complexes of practice, tight and loose connections among value co-creations can be identified. Finally implications of this study to the management diagnostics were considered.

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The intellectual property (IP) is not only a source of the profit of enterprises, but also can control the industrial competitiveness among countries. The manufacturing enterprises should work out their IP strategy which enables them to maximize value capture, and R & D, patent application and practical use must be based on that strategy. In this study, we proposed the patent application strategy matrix which can diagnose the strategy in the patent application of enterprises, and the questionnaire survey was done to the enterprises excerpted from the published unexamined patent application on the matrix. In this paper, the situation of the capital and the human resources related to IP strategy of the small and medium-sized enterprises clarified from the questionnaire answer and the result in an examination of the effectiveness of that matrix are reported.

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I consider significance and the direction for the future study after having surveyed the process of birth and the discussion of the power conflict theory mainly on the result of the channel study. As for the power conflict theory, analysis has been stimulated until now by the dyadic relationship which was composition of the traditional marketing exchange. In this paper, I utilize network perspective ahead of the dyadic relationship of a seller and the buyer and examine significance and the direction of reconsidering a power conflict theory. And I speak implication to a management diagnosis while considering connection with the existing study approach.

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This paper considers the case of Toyota's performance accounting based on the process of budgetary slack theories in management accounting as budgetary slack with eufunction that is different from budgetary slack with dysfunction mainly recognized in budgetary slack theories. And then this paper conceptualizes the essence of Toyota's performance accounting as “Proactive Slack”, and considers its meanings from the viewpoint of management accounting.

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation recommend the “continuous disclosure” of the Intellectual Asset-Based Management Report. However, as a result of my investigation, I found out that there are not so many companies which disclose the Intellectual Asset-Based Management Report continuously in the current situation. Through the examination that I've tried, I've reached the conclusion that continuous disclosure of Intellectual Asset-Based Management Report is not useful in the current situation.

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In this paper, we analyze and discuss what non-profit organization should do to collaborate between shopping street association in management on community cafe.

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In this study, we propose a cooperation strategy planning method whose purpose is a promotion of a regional and occupational health cooperation service. “Chita Peninsula secondary medical service area” in Aichi was analyzed as a case study. In the analysis, a cooperation of some institutions was quantitatively described by using index of relationships and resources. A result of the analysis clarified characteristics of each institution which participate in cooperation service. This method discloses the institution which can't perform their strengths effectively and gives institutions better choices of relationships and resources.

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Originally, ethnography is a way of academic research which many cultural anthropologists have used. Business people have growing interest in ethnography as consulting method. Some large enterprises are studying it for practical use. This report states the present situation in business. The purpose of this study is to see potential for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The report verifies that ethnography is practically effective for SMEs and we should be careful about profitability in the consulting of SMEs.

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In this study, we discuss the human resource development on of expert skills in machine tool industries. We tried to clarify that the success of personnel training still largely depends on OJT (On-the-Job Training). The problem with OJT is the time needed to complete personnel training. In addition, it was also discovered that personnel training programs using Off-JT (Off-the-Job-Training) have not improved until recently due to lack of both the number of trainers and of the time needed for preparation. For this purpose, we deconstructed the machining processes used for a tool machining-center unit into operational processes, and analyzed the operational processes to correlate their degree of difficulty, education method, education stage, occurrence frequency, and skill dependency. By this method, we clarified kinds of operational processes, timing for education, and methods of transfer. This suggestion would be useful for small and medium companies in the machine tool industry to develop their educational programs step by step according to their respective resource situations.

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To promote the happy and healthy society system, the construction and management of “Community-Based Integrated Care System” (CBICS) is essential in aged society. Nursing care and nursing staff provide direct nursing care services to residents and users, and direct cooperate with multidisciplinary and multi-participants, for example, physicians, user's family, government, and regional general support center, and play a crucial role and responsibility in the CBICS. Cooperation awareness of nursing care and nursing staff is affecting the construction and operation of the CBICS directly. In the study, based on the result of cooperation consciousness survey of nursing care and nursing staff, the authors will analysis and evaluate the work awareness and cooperation awareness of nursing care and nursing staff from the perspective of Confucius thought (Confucian cooperation consciousness structure model), and examined the environment related to cooperation.

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The purpose of this study is to uncover view towards corporation and the work value of Chinese white-collar workers in the Japanese-affiliated companies located China using a questioner based method. We focus on the difference among Chinese workers in the Japanese affiliated companies, in the local companies(state-owned enterprise, private enterprises)and in the Japanese companies of Japan. We examine the following two hypotheses. ①Chinese workers in the Japanese-affiliated companies are more group oriented than those of the Chinese companies. ②The Chinese workers in the Japanese-affiliated company are more process oriented than those of the Chinese companies. As a result, “Ho-Ren-So(report, contact, conference are communication tools in Japanese company)” is acknowledged by Chinese workers in the Japanese-affiliated companies. Chinese workers in the Japanese-affiliated companies are more process oriented than those of the Chinese companies.

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In order to support health and happy life of local residents in limited health-medical-welfare resource with corresponding to the needs of welfare and nursing care service, implementation and efficient management of Community Comprehensive Health Care System will be more significant increasingly. Especially, as an infrastructure for supporting Community Comprehensive Health Care System, establishment of Home Medical Care System and cooperation among medical facilities will be more important. Therefore, in this paper, from the results of the questionnaire survey of medical doctors belonging to the Toyotakamo Medical Association, condition and doctors' consciousness of Home Medical Care System and cooperation among medical facilities are reviewed and discussed.

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An environmental management system ISO 14001 attestation system attests whether the environmental activity of an applicable organization conforms to an ISO 14001 standard. Although it is this system quickly diffused from around 1996 at home, it has changed to the stagnation tendency around from 2009. The contents of the conventional “conformity audit” were thinking judging the conformity degree to a standard as important. However, it is made to shift to plus “effectiveness audit” from several years before. “Effectiveness audit” is contents which audit not only conforms to an ISO 14001 standard, but judge whether performance is improving. However, from a user, the request to an audit charge is also large. This questionnaire showed in general that effectiveness audit was towards spread. The system where a user's needs cannot be satisfied will cause systemic fatigue, and will be forsaken from a user.

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To promote the happy and healthy society system, the construction and management of “Community-Based Integrated Care System” (CBICS) is essential in aged society. The role of the physicians who is bearing leadership to community medicine and home medical care is indispensable in the human network of the CBICS where people support people. Therefore, in order to comprehend the present awareness and activity of the physicians who belong to Toyota-Kamo Medical Association, a questionnaire survey was carried out in January 2013. In this study, we demonstrated and considered the present conditions and the evaluation of the physicians in the CBICS from the view of Confucianism based on the results of the investigation.

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In this paper, the present conditions of disaster prevention system of Medical Association Offices throughout Japan were diagnosed on the basis of the questionnaire, and the disaster prevention measures in the future was proposed. "Survey on disaster prevention system of Medical Association Office" was carried out for the Medical Association Offices throughout Japan in 2011. As a result, in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Medical Association to think about disaster prevention system increased. However, most of medical associations cannot be responded to the situation where a communication facility cannot be used. The emergency drill in which the member of a medical association participates is not made of all medical associations. In addition, as improvement plan for the disaster prevention system, we suggested the concrete measures and proposed what kind of medical association should be improved.

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Because Website marketing can show a big effect without requiring a large amount of expense, it is useful marketing method for manufacturing SMEs. Since main clients of SMEs have been moving to overseas and Keiretsu system is collapsing, SMEs need to find new clients by using Website marketing to survive and to grow. We conducted questionnaire survey to SMEs and interviewed two SME firms to find out relationships between IT capability and Website marketing, as well as between Website marketing and management effects. As a result, there are clear relationships between them. At the same time, SMEs have big problems about establishing IT capability owing to lack of experience, knowledge and talented people.

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The real estate industry in china is an important one, which has been developing rapidly for last 35 years. This industry mainly consists of developers and estate agencies. The developers develop and supply condominiums for urbanites. Based upon urbanites desires for owning new housings and abundant investment funds, the company size of developers has been growing at a rapid rate in China. As the first step in our research of the real estate industry in China, this paper organizes the real estate history according to the government policies concerned with land owning, finance and housing loan. Then the current situation of the real estate industry in China is considered as well as the characteristics and challenges.

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In June 2005, in association with the revision of the long-term care insurance system, the “Community General Support Center” was established in Japan. The center aims to support the improvement of health and medical welfare of citizens, and is hoped to support care prevention. There is the variety of employees' working, depending on centers. In this paper, we conducted a time study to investigate the working hours and work contents of employees in community general support centers in T-City.

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In order to construct and manage the Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in each community in aging society, it will be important and also necessary to promote the cooperation effectively and innovatively. However, according to some reports, it is clear that promotion of cooperation in each community is difficult and complicated. Therefore, in this paper, we discuss and present some concepts, philosophy and ideas for promotion of some cooperations from the view point of Systems Management. We also present some innovative systematization policies for cooperqtions in the Community-Based Integrated Care Systems.

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It is necessary to perform the collection of data, analysis to introduce MFCA into the company. In addition, it is important I systematize it, and to make a tool to become the great trouble to carry these out parallel to daily duties. Therefore I made the easy-to-use Material Flow Cost Accounting Tool which reduced a burden when a company introduced MFCA. At that time, I divide it into type 1 in the TCA classification and type 2, with type 1, we can find waste from the expense that it costs directly at a production line, with type 2, this easy-to-use tool can be readily provided to help manufacturers identify and reduce their waste costs.

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In globalization era, the Japanese manufacturing industries are required to effectively adapt for variable demand, growing product variety and decreasing production lot-size. In the era, shop floor managers have to process supply information sent from globally located manufacturing plants in order to make their decisions. Meanwhile older workers, unskilled workers and foreign workers in Japan are increasing in their shop floors. In these situations, some operational supports are necessary to improve their shop floor productivity and product quality. To help the shop floor management effectively, visualization (i.e. management by visualization) which has been originally developed in Toyota Production System (TPS) is available. The current visualization is aided by IT technology to visualize some information such as production schedule, inventory level, quality control data, and so on at shop floors. The purpose of the research is to show some practice examples of visualization using IT technology and then to discuss the usefulness of visualization using IT technology for the shop floor management.

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By leveraging the strengths of manufacturing high-quality ever, Tokai regional companies, has been active in the expansion into Western markets and domestic market. However, Considering that the business environment of shrinking domestic market, such as the stagnation of Western markets is increasingly severe in the future, new market development is urgent. That you work toward participation is regarded as a new growth market the BOP market is an important management issue for Tokai regional companies. Exploratory some cases can be seen in BOP business enterprise in the Tokai region, but I considered stage of their infancy. Efforts by leveraging the core competencies, and attempt to resolve social issues while ensuring corporate profit is it should be as a company, and possible Tokai region companies will usher in a new horizon in BOP business think.

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