First, in this special issue, I have proposed the inter-connectivity and the interchangeability of use between Suica and T-money as the PyongChang Winter Olympics and the Tokyo Olympic Paralympics get closer Second, I attribute the proliferation of both smart devices and IoT to the evolution of O2O and discusses how FinTech and financial OTT are leaping traditional boundaries in the financial industry as they are applied to various offline industries. Finally, I discuss how commerce and O2O markets couple with Omni-Channel, and Fin-Tech and financial OTT to cause innovation in the smart mobile business as well as drive new growth momentum.

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This study intends to see the trend of Korean mobile technology, technology convergence, and technology knowledge diffusion through social network analysis of Korean mobile patents. To do so, we built a database of Korean patents which are related to mobile technology, and a database of citation relationship focusing on mobile patents. We analyzed a social network analysis using two methodologies: patent citation network analysis and Co-IPC analysis. The results show that G06 (arithmetic and logic unit; calculation; computation) and H04 (telecommunication technology) play a significant role in mobile technology convergence, and the major technologies of mobile industry change to G06 from H04 with the introduction of smartphone. We also investigated that convergence of mobile technology has increased over time but is stagnating lately. Further, mobile patents of domestic corporations are the most frequently cited by other applicants. On the other hands, in case of governmental institutions, there are relatively small numbers of cases that other applicants cite its patents than it cites the patents of other applicants.

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NTT DoCoMo's i-mode is a mobile internet service that started in 1999, the first in the world. Author Enoki was a project executive who developed the i-mode service at NTT DoCoMo. This paper explains how Enoki became the project executive, and why he head-hunted Mari Matsunaga and Takeshi Natsuno, who became strategic people in the i-mode project. Furthermore, this paper examines what the project executive was thinking through each project process.

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There are currently two major technologies for mobile Internet access, 3G/4G, which is based on the cellular network, and WiFi, which is based on wireless lan. To predict the winning technology for mobile Internet access in the near future, a radically new approach is adopted It uses what is called "big data" technology. Specifically, a text mining technique was applied to discover the underlying bias towards one of the two technologies in the English Wikipedia. The bias will be regarded as a collective intelligence of Wikipedia, providing an answer for the prediction. The result of the programming experiment turned out that the English Wikipedia didn't show any bias towards one of the two technologies, i.e. it was neutral between the two. Three different explationations are possible for this rather unexpected result which was originally expected to be 3G/4G-bias by the author.

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Smart mobile transforms the structure of every industry by de-maturation. In the mobile industry, the emergence of a smart mobile restructures the position of makers to service providers by mobile personalization. The power of the personalization affects all industries by removing the industrial barriers. Personalization of information enhances the simultaneously processing of multiple information by reciprocal information exchange between users and specialists. Through the cloud-sourcing process, smart mobiles inspire the autonomy of users and make them innovators for producing their own products. The industrial growth is achieved by personalizing goods and services. Innovation is also personalized and therefore achieved instantly.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) will change the ways we live, work and play. IoT includes everything from high-tech consumer wearables such as the FitBit to home automation tools like the Nest thermostat. It encompasses monitoring tools for mining equipment and apps that help consumers monitor their appliances. IoT is the digital interactive connectivity between people, animals, devices, structures and places. IoT is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity to enable it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturer, operator and other connected devices. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. As ICT has progressed in products and services, so-called ICT with existing industry is fused," Convergence Industry" become important. Convergence Industry has entered a new turning point by the diffusion of IoT. IoT makes to new changes the convergence paradigm with a variety of industry and ICT by the innovation from the industry outside activated. In this paper; I explain the use case of IoT, presenting the direction of the business strategy of IoT from the perspective of Industrial Convergence.

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Through smartphone applications provided by global open platform, the personal data acquired without permission issues are occurring frequently. The development in IT industry is growing widely so that the assumption of new business in the future and its risk is getting difficult. It is also hard to handle it by laws and regulations only. With regards to these issues, this paper explains the public private partnerships now in Japan, also indicates the issues of consumer protection, industrial development, globalization regardless of laws and regulations.

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Digital information used to be created mainly by humans, flowing between tangible computing devices connected by internal networks and the Internet. Information is now also being created from "things", remotely or worn, via the Internet of Things (IoT). By IoT, we mean the physical objects embedded with sensors and actuators that are connected, with wireless or wired networks, often via Internet Protocol (IP) (Chui 2010). Digital innovations are arising from the digitization of products and services. This study shows how leveraging the affordances of mobile innovation leads to data for new digital innovation for the firm (Yoo et al. 2010).

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This paper has been written to present the new angle for analysis of mobile business researches, and discusses the concept of "Generativity". Specifically, this paper firstly discusses the factor for the generation of Generativity in mobile industry including smartphone, and the semantic contents and characteristics of Generativity. Secondly, this paper presents that Spotifty is a digital music distribution service which have been growing rapidly designing Generativity, through organizing the Generativity analysis of Spotifty.

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Japanese mobile phone industry comes across a platform shift from feature-phone to smart phone. This research focuses on a platform follower, mobile phone manufacturers, and focuses on these companies adaptation behavior in platform shift's transition. Our research interest is "what impacts old and new incoming platform resource allocation strategy is expected to have on new incoming platform product's performance?"

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