The planting and cultivation of natural rubber in Malaysia has been decreasing because of the growth of secondary and tertiary industries as the economic development. On the other hand, the latex glove industry that use natural rubber latex has been growing. For the relaxation of supply and demand balance, glove manufacturers, 1) import natural rubber latex from Thailand, 2) make foreign direct investment of natural rubber, 3) set up factories in natural rubber latex producing countries, and 4) try to increase the production of nitrile glove rubber.

  Strategy Pallet of Boston Consulting Group categorizes strategy approaches into quadrants with 2 axes: “whether you can predict business-environment change or not” and “whether you can modify business environment or not,” recommending thinking flow suitable for each approach, while Sasoh (2019) categorizes thinking also into quadrants with 2 axes: “creation or optimization” and “intrinsic or extrinsic.” I discuss similarity and difference between these categorization. Shaping Strategy Approach suits Design Thinking, while Visionary Strategy Approach does Vision Thinking. Both are useful in creating new industry if chosen relevant to the development of regulations on intended business. Here, predictability highly depends on the development of the regulations.

  American institutional investors have been giving greater importance to climate-change-risk assessment in asset management. Hazard maps have been utilized to analyze risks that floods including high tides by typhoons hit each enterprise, while climate-change is to be reflected in Japanese hazard maps. Preparation of hazard maps based on climate-change predictions are anticipated for over-sea production bases or distribution networks, for example, in Southeast Asia, because many enterprises whose headquarters are located in Japan own over-sea bases.