The aim of this article is to propose how to maintain and innovate the railway services in rural areas. I think the railway services in rural areas face the crisis. Now, two deregulations are balancing. The last deregulation policies aim breaking away from vertically divided. There are many examples that aims breaking away from vertical division. But it is the signs of innovation. Now we need matching system for tourists, transport corporations, shippers, carriers, and national and local governments. This structure is common to another region, for example in medicine. So, transportation industries should refer another region.

The possibility of forming a new femtec market was suggested at the June 2021 Cabinet meeting. It became necessary to discuss how to realise femtec industry promotion in the region to take advantage of this opportunity and achieve a breakthrough to grow the stagnant regional economyNote 2.

Using backcast thinking, the current situation was ascertained and issues for realising the ideal regional image (KGI) around 2030 were identified. Furthermore, a concept and concrete measures for commercialising the solutions to the problems and a strategy for industrial promotion were also created.

The above explained that the creation of a femtec industry in the Hokuriku region to support women’s health, both physically and mentally, is expected to contribute to the growth of both the economic and social value of the region, with the aim of promoting women’s activities, which Japan is lagging behind in.

Even if a company or organization seeking to create a new business can connect with an entity that possesses the information or knowledge it needs, it will not necessarily be able to acquire the necessary information.The higher the value of the information needed, the more trust is required between the organization, and the greater the cost of acquiring the information.

In the case of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), the interactive exchanges in the network built through the matching events they have been working on have created a network with trust, which has been used in recent initiatives.

In addition, it is about to produce new results through further utilization in future initiatives.

The purpose of this research is to clarify the historical transformation process of the pharmaceutical industry by systematically collecting and analyzing historical reviews of Contract Research Organizations (CROs).

Historical changes in the CRO business model can be divided into three phases: Generation, Establishment, and Development. CROs initially had a relatively generic, labor-intensive business model that provided pharmaceutical companies with temporary resources. In 1990s, they learned functional knowledge and established capital-intensive business models specific to the drug development.

Since 2005 CROs growth lead to the dismantling of vertical integration in the pharmaceutical industry, although CROs are diverse in size and form. In the modern pharmaceutical industry, a small number of “core companies” which provide the final product are supported by specialized firms, like CROs, which are shaping “supportive nexus”.

This vertical disintegration in the pharmaceutical industry may seem to be the decline of the “Chandlerian” firms. Nevertheless, Chandler’s theoretical framework could be also applicable for the emergence of CROs.

This paper focuses on a new framework for service innovation, the “Service Value Creation three-axis model” (SVC three-axis model), reflecting the concepts of S-D Logic, and examines its effectiveness. Built upon three axes—business hierarchy, sector-actor, and timeline—the SVC model offers a multidimensional framework for analyzing service innovation from corporate / organizational levels to community / societal ones. Through comparison with associative strategy tools, such as the Mind Map technique, this research shows the model's applicability the model’s efficacy in fostering co-creative approaches within communities and societies. Furthermore, the SVC model can indicate the visualization of service value transition and explores new vision drivers and technological/organizational enablers for future service innovation. The AI-supported combination of associative and hierarchical approaches is anticipated to be effective for future planning.

In this paper, based on the author’s research results, the author systematizes the co-creation of security and safety by insurance and technology from the perspectives of risk management and innovation.

Specifically, this paper shows the Enterprise Risk Management method, which uses simulation technology to quantify and manage catastrophe risks such as earthquakes and typhoons in order to stabilize ROE at an appropriate level.

Furthermore, when new technologies are implemented in society, insurance may play a role as a partner. This research examines the partner relationship between insurance and technology regarding housing performance, autonomous driving, and computer-aided diagnosis.

Chapter 7 of “Digital Education for Executives in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises” series, is titled “IoT with Strategies,” and we will discuss about building corporate strategies.

It is a reality that we often see small and medium-size level enterprises are behind digitalization. It is essential companies value workers who are directly involved in the production line to improve Japan’s current technology capabilities. They need to train their employees through numerous training programs and develop crucial human resources in the span of five (5)to ten (10) years. Then, companies could bring in IoT expertise and build suitable systems.

This series would grasp changes in the technology history and organize the elements which should be considered while corporations plan their IoT strategies.

The first of this essay, we will introduce and propose “Ranking Meta-Physica Map.” The Ranking Meta-Physica Map is developed for a organizing and structuring method of ranking making elements, and it is based on 7w2h + EG method. We apply the map to three examples and confirm the map is useful. The second part of this essay, we discuss the 2023 trend rankings by generation-Z, and comparing the rankings made by three different companies, we also discuss the difficulty of making the correct rankings.

Art thinking is a way of thinking that generates original and unconventional ideas based on one’s own passions and perspectives. Unlike design thinking and logical thinking, which start from existing problems or solutions, art thinking starts from one’s own vision and curiosity and can create radical innovations that change the world from 0 to 1.

Japan has a history of producing such self-driven innovations in the postwar era, but they have been overshadowed by problem-solving, sustainable innovations since the burst of the bubble economy.

This has led to Japan’s decline in global influence. To regain its edge, Japan needs to embrace art thinking and pursue disruptive innovation once again. Art thinking is inspired by the thinking of contemporary artists, who create new concepts that challenge the status quo by making creative leaps in their thinking. Contemporary art is not about being beautiful, but about being provocative and visionary. Business leaders and innovators can learn from artists how to think outside the box and create value that goes beyond the norm.