This paper writes the history and the most essential points of “Open Innovation”. Author emphasizes “face to face” communication. Without this, the most important factor “tacit knowledge network” will never be made.

He also emphasizes “off” human network. He realized these by starting and managing a think-tank “GVIN=Global Venture Industry Network” for 16 years.

In order to realize “global innovation”, he started “International Symposium of Dialogue for Global Innovation (DFGI)” 10 years ago. He successfully realized 7 such Symposiums mostly in Europe.

The effects of the reconstruction and the utilization of closed school buildings as production and manufacturing bases especially for minor enterprises are studied. The issues to be solved were defined as how to reduce production and manufacturing costs and how to enhance added values of the products. The application of energy saving low temperature moisture controlling and the integration of agriculture, forestry, energy development and logistics were proposed to solve the first issue. The application of the low temperature moisture controlling system and the advanced heat supply system were proposed to solve the second issue. Another effect that the closed schools equipped with the technologies described above have the function of disaster refuge bases was concluded.

This report introduces REA model as business architecture. The model was originally proposed by McCarthy for accounting data model which realizes event approach . Also the REA model is known as business domain ontology, which allows to describe components and its relationship of business model or business system.

This study introduces mainly two ideas. One is a conceptual model of business architecture. Another is prototype to educate enterprise system. The conceptual model would support understanding of business system. Nowadays business IT system is designed with actual business model concurrently. The use of the REA model would lead not only those who work on enterprise system but also those who create new business model.

This paper reports the regional revitalization businesses to solve the population outflow and create employment in Minami-boso area in Chiba prefecture, Japan based on the experiences of the sales agent for the cable television company and telecommunication construction business in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture. and the regional revitalization project in Tokyo and Chiba prefecture.

In Japan, population of young people is shrinking, which makes it difficult for the local companies in the rural areas to run their businesses. What is important to deal with dwindling population in Minami-boso area and attract human capital

from Tokyo is to increase jobs which are worthwhile for people who are employed in the local area and to raise their income.

The concrete solutions and their results are discussed in terms of 3 businesses (Used agricultural machines and implements sales, real estate and renovation business and recruit consulting business) developed by the researcher.

In Japan will meet an unprecedented fluctuation period as a population decreas for 100 years from now on. With the resources born from the population by the impact. A network as an area would change big.

It was considered how a future local community should correspod to the several problems a population decrease brings to Tokyo over-concentration.

After as a result, I meet the change in aging and the living body I say social environment for continuation possibility of the society. I got the conclusion that the design which relocates non-utilization wealth of the area “Human resources Housing and Service, etc.” is needed.

A senior citizen makes an area the work and the residential environment which can play an active part with unity as its plan by the main subject. “Elderly housing with work (EHW)” a model was raised.

In order to realize digital transformation, it is important to “connect” and transfer from partial optimization to total optimization. However, the introduction of the optimum system has not progressed in small and medium-sized manufacturers. In this study, two small and medium-sized manufacturing companies participated and observed. The issue of system introduction with inter-organizational cooperation were not the lacks of system human resources, knowledges, and organizational resistances, but lacks of visualization of tacit knowledge of works that occurred between organizations. Furthermore, it was made clear that there was a lack of awareness of the impact of work on related organizations.

There is a limit to the production of automobile parts mainly in wage processing in Japan. Taking advantage of our strengths, we started a business that could be transmitted from Maruyoshi Kogyo, and realized that it was necessary to work on a service that could sell “technology”. We report the issues and challenges that have been addressed to rebuild corporate value to achieve sales of 10 billion yen.

Deep learning is an innovative method that has a significantly different effect on the degree of learning of artificial intelligence than conventional machine learning. There are no papers on whether deep learning will be the driving force for innovation in SMEs. In this paper, we tried to build the following two hypotheses for the impact of SMEs on future deep learning. The first is that in the short term, there is a promising area that cannot be replaced by current mechanical technology alone in the 3K area. The second is to improve competitiveness by working early and understanding and accumulating the data necessary for the company.

Until the early of 21st century, pharmaceutical company had been run own business boldly continuously through launching many products including blockbusters under management of strong top-down style of leader. However, once drug patents, expired the business performance had often become sluggish. In 2010, nobody had able to escape from the patent cliff. Thereafter, in recent years, giants of digital technology platformer, GAFA, has influenced in not only computer industry from B2B to B2C but the other industry including pharmaceutical industry as well. Thence, pharmaceutical company has faced to transform their business model as well as to be platformer of business ecosystem. In addition to the hard side, as a soft aspect, leadership style also tends to be shifted from conventional top-down style of leader then management style leader to authentic leader. On the ecosystem and under the leadership, the Strength of Weak Ties theory is a key to archive high performance on the business; weak ties are surprisingly valuable because they are more likely to be the source of novel information. On such ecosystem, in the highly competitive and highly regulated pharmaceutical industry, the company is struggling to seek maximizing drug value based on its corporate philosophy. In this report, we considered the success factors are (1) in business transformation, to build an organization that is aware of weak connections and incorporate partners who have not partnered in the past, (2) in leadership, to adopt a style that can demonstrate its capabilities while adapting itself to the environment.

This paper describes success factors of ambidexterity, which is the ability to pursue “exploitation” and “exploration” simultaneously, in small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs). “Exploitation” creates reliability in experience through refinement, routinization, production, and implementation of knowledge. “Exploration” creates variety in experience through search, discovery, novelty, innovation, and experimentation. Recent papers on innovation have increasingly indicated the need for firms to achieve a balance between the two.

However, there is still a small number of previous researches on the ability of SMEs. In this paper, we find evidences which support the following hypotheses based on two samples of SMEs; (1) Top managers search the field or the theme of a start-up business, (2) SMEs adopt a system of “contextual ambidexterity”, where employees are in charge of both an existing business (“exploitation”) and a start-up business (“exploration”) (3) Top managers support employees belonging to the two businesses, (4) Motivations of employees in SMEs aren’t likely to occur conflict between the two businesses.

In consideration of the environment of Japanese manufacturing companies in recent years, a method of statistical process control using data items that can be acquired by analog devices is developed in this study. By implementing this SPC management, manufacturing companies in Japan can improve quality and yield, and can conduct verification and periodical re-validation.

In order to build the vision of engineering industry for sustaining regional community coping with super aging society in Japan, the new business research group in Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA) has been examining the ideal form of social infrastructure incorporating the latest smart technology and infrastructure business. Based on the prospects of “National Land Grand Design 2050” and “Smart City” projects in Japanese government policy, we focus the developing process through holistic approach of typical type of compact/smart city cases. Conducting field survey and case analysis of Toyama city and Aizu-wakamatsu city selected as typical successful cases, we show the demanded state of smart infrastructure and the possibilities of the related business introduction and continuity in each case. The case analysis involves roadmapping process with hierarchical layers such as social issues, service/business, infrastructure, smart technology (IoT, AI, RT) where various measures in each local government case are mapped.

This paper examines how effective it is for non-professionals to participate in innovation idea creation activities. To date, there have been several studies that have shown that it is effective to involve users in idea creation activities. However, in the actual development of new products, not only users but also general people (non-professionals) such as target consumers are often gathered. The purpose of this paper is to consider how to engage general people rather than the user in the idea creation activities. In this paper, we conduct experiments that evaluate the characteristics of non-expert ideas by comparing them with experts. The idea of non-experts was very novel, but was assessed as low feasibility and customervalue. It was also confirmed that non-expert ideas resemble expert ideas when the technical attributes used to create ideas by experts were given to non-experts. From that perspective, the reason why companies involve the general public in the creation of ideas is because of novelty, and it is important to consciously incorporate such new ideas.

All industrial sectors are facing digital disruption more or less at present. Business models which have been succeeded in the past are being disrupted by new companies which hold digital technology and new business model. This enables new emerging companies to get big power to beat old established companies. International Freight Forwarding sector where I belong to is facing the same situation as other sectors. So, I set the research questions as following; RQ 1: “Is there any possibility of taking use of my researching business model into logistics sectors of Japan?” RQ 2: “How can I integrate this business model into Banso Logistics Co., Ltd. which I have established in 2018?” I had an opportunity to join the executive education program which was held at Singapore by IMD business school on this thesis in 2018. Later also, I continue to research this business model and just come close to launching prototype for trial on business.

The volunteer staff of NPO corporation ZESDA works on local support. I narrow a district and the distance of the urban heart from a viewpoint of “the third place” and bring about new local possibility.

This report, “Well-Being Housing Development Strategy,” reveals the management strategies and concepts that Iida Group Holdings Corporation (IGHD) has worked on.

Furthermore, it discusses their Engineering Management Strategies as implementation tactics. It reports how their management identity and engineering capabilities create homes that families dream of and homeowners live a happy lifestyle.

This research is based on case examples wich is the method of organizing the purpose and costraints during a system introduction to match implementation to the customer requests.

In this case study, we proposed the Redmine (an open source software project management tool) to our user in need of production management.If we clear the requests,options of implementation will increase.We will continue to resarch and propose to help companies who are having trouble with introducing systems.

Five years have already passed since local revitalization was raised as a Japanese policy. Despite the boom that is said to be the longest after the war and the tailwind of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, many Japanese citizens living in local cities have not been able to realize the boom.

Until now, rural areas have not been able to provide housing that would make them want to move. It can be said that there was a sweetness in the idea even if it was said that promoting migration.

As a countermeasure, it is an effort to create attractive local cities until they are called brands. The provision of an environment in which young people who have gone to the city once want to move back to the country and live in the country after marriage or childbirth. Promote U-turn to attractive local cities.

Chapter 5 of “Engineering Brands” series is “a Role of Corporate Philosophy in Brand Building.” This chapter examines relationships between branding and corporate philosophies.

In the last chapter, it was discussed how corporate branding involves corporate philosophies, domains, and identities. A company’s domain and identity are management strategies as well as product strategies. As these two fields are different by nature, there is a risk of lacking unity in the directions. Essentially, a president of a company looks at overall balance, shows his or her leadership and set the corporate philosophy.

By looking into an analogy between branding and corporate philosophy, it has unveiled a correlation between domains and identities from the point of view of corporate identity. In brand building, company strength needs to be highlighted through defining a business domain and explaining corporate identity. Further, corporate philosophies tell us corporate identities.

How you write company’s management philosophies could help build Corporate Branding as well as Engineering Branding.

Along with servitization of economics is growing beyond an industrial area, the research on service innovation including solutions for social problems has been demanded towards human well-being and community sustainability. This article shows a perspective of macro model of service innovation involving static service concept model and dynamic value creation model referring service ecosystem theory in S-D logic. The model is applied to four cases in private and public service such as accommodation, art events, tourism and smart city domains for explanatory descriptions. This study shows the possibility of building new framework for service innovation towards the inclusive society of global SDGs age.