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Self-enforcing of Differentiating Mechanism and the Unintentional Result
Tatsuyuki Negoro, Takehisa Tokunaga
Session ID: X
Published: 2008
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This is a lecture for the 2007 JASMIN award paper.
Two points are discussed.
One is a philosophical argument on the causal chain in the reality which underlies the particular paper.
The other is the key concept of the particular paper, Self-enforcing of Differentiating Mechanism.
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JUN KUNIEDA, SHIRO KOMI
Session ID: A1-1
Published: 2008
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How Business Systems acquire the Sustainable Competitive Advantages for Parts Suppliers on Automotive World Market ? Many big parts- makers called MEGA-Supplires grow in European and North American markets. We analysis the statistical finantial statements for Japanese Automotive Parts Makers and study the profitability to inquire the sustainable conditions.
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EITARO MAEDA, YASUO KADONO
Session ID: A1-2
Published: 2008
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the mechanism of how 3D Information Technologies (3D-ITs) are effective on the improvement of quality, cost and delivery (QCD) in the development process of cellular phones. Investigating some real cases of the integral processes among the machine design, the electric machine design and the artistic design in detail, the results of this paper indicated that the use of 3D-ITs improved the quality of the shape design, and that it was effective to reach a middle ground of the shape contradiction and the requirements of the designs. Furthermore, this paper showed the indirect effects of the cellular phone development process and suggested the spillover effect that 3D-ITs caused for the management efficiency of the cellular phone manufacturer.
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Takashige Takahashi, Manabu Yamaji, Kakuro Amasaka
Session ID: A1-3
Published: 2008
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Abstract: A future successful global marketer must develop an excellent quality management system that impresses users and continuously provides excellent, quality products in a timely manner through corporate management. This paper discusses a concept of the Quality Information Network System. So, the authors propose "A-QUINS"(Amasaka Lab's-Quality Information Network System)for the purpose of prevent recurrence of problem. Furthermore this system was verified at advanced company.
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Shinichi Kondo
Session ID: A1-4
Published: 2008
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The manufacture company in Japan is threatened by structural change of reduction in labor force etc. In such a situation, small and medium-sized enterprises are performing the measure towards base strengthening of a manufacture field. Small and medium-sized enterprises are beginning to observe practical use of the digital technology in a manufacture field as one of the means. Then, we utilized the digital technology in the manufacture field, improved QCD, and performed the survey to the manufacture company which tackles the correspondence to a structural change. As a result of investigation, there are many companies which tackle digitization of a manufacture field, and they were able to discover results, such as improvement in QCD, as a result of a measure.
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- For the Development from the Previous Studies -
Manami Miyamoto
Session ID: B1-1
Published: 2008
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Since after the prominent study of the strategic group theory by Porter (1980), the major interest of the strategic group theory has headed mainly in two directions; to prove how strategic groups exist within an industry and to explain the differences between and within the groups with regards to performance. However, it can be said that these studies were conducted under the implicit assumption that the conditions of the industries were relatively stable.
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the contemporary significance of the strategic group theory and to seek a possible way to develop this theory based on the review of the previous studies.
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Aiming to Develop E-Commerce(EC) Evaluation Model
Yutaka UTASHIRO
Session ID: B1-2
Published: 2008
Released on J-STAGE: August 07, 2008
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The market scale of e-commerce (EC) in Japan has become surpassing to that of the United States today. The first stage of the spread is about to end. The importance of a qualitative problem what you do in EC has risen. In this research, the interview investigation concerning EC was conducted first. A framework which consists of a structure of EC objectives and templates of strategy maps of EC was developed based on the result of the interview. In addition, the questionnaire survey was executed, and EC objectives and templates of strategy maps were verified based on the survey result.
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SHINO OTA
Session ID: B1-3
Published: 2008
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Environmental problems are understood as serious social issues in a lot of countries, and have been faced to the situation in which it cannot help taking management that considers the global environment ,that is, "Eco management system" into its own business model in the enterprise in Japan. Additionally, a severer system have sent from European region in recent years, and recognition that evolving "Eco management system" more leads to strengthening the competitiveness of the company has deepened in the enterprise that practices in the global supply chain.. In this report, I mainly take up the case analysis, and see how the small and medium-sized enterprise with small human resources is working on "Eco management system".
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Yasuo Kadono, Hiroe Tsubaki, Seishiro Tsuruho
Session ID: B1-4
Published: 2008
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The purpose of this study is to clarify the mechanism of how software engineering capabilities relate to the business performance of IT vendors based on the continuous researches since 2005. To end this, we developed a structural model, including the Software Engineering Excellence indicator which consists of deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improvement, research and development, human resource development and customer contact. By analyzing the data collected from 100 major IT vendors in Japan, we found that the effort level on human resource development, quality assurance and project management made better performance of customer contact, research and development and process improvement of the IT vendors in Japan, just as we found the tendency last year.
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hiroshi komoriya
Session ID: C1-1
Published: 2008
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FLOW theory that psychologist Csikszentmihalyi advocated is a motivation theory based on the spontaneous motivation of Happiness. In this text, focused on whole business organizations FLOW. Specifically, the author, taking into consideration the conditions which Csikszentmihalyi identified as inductive to FLOW, speculated as to realization whole business organizations FLOW think about the strategy development.
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Yasuhiro Sasaki
Session ID: C1-2
Published: 2008
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Japan Users Association of Information Systems decided upon "UISS: Users' Information Systems Skill Standards", and was released in June, 2006 from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Application of UISS is expected from proper personnel assignment, and grasp of human resources and promotion of personnel training.
UISS was evaluated by performing an introductory test in two model companies.
Consequently, UISS is applicable to "an inquiry of skill required for a section", "individual mapping", and "presentation of a training point."
On the other hand, the subject also became clear.It is necessary to prepare an index independently about skills other than IS skills.The carrer path which UISS illustrates is unnecessary.
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Atsutoshi OSHIMA
Session ID: C1-3
Published: 2008
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Based on the recent surveys, most important issues in Japanese corporate management is "human resource development." In particular, the weakness of Japanese corporate HRD is leadership development for next corporate executives.
Many large companies have recently challenged to develop such programmers in the corporate university. However, there are some problems such as uncertainty of strategic positioning and content of program itself.
This paper aims to analyze the status and issues on the leadership program for next corporate executive in line with strategic human resource development (SHRD).
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Case study of Hamamatsu Photonics' streak camera business
Shigeru Eura, Kousuke Kiyohara, Ryo Shimokita, Hideo Eda
Session ID: D1-1
Published: 2008
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This research is a case study of Hamamatsu Photonics' streak camera business and how a new technology applied to new applications. This is important process for "Industrial Creation".
The streak camera is one of the measurement instruments that have supported technological developments of optical communications etc. However, it was developed in academic basic research, at first. The process from the basic research market to the technological development market has been studied by tracing the scientific reports and catalogue of the streak camera.
As the result, the important factors of "Searching activities", "Communications with users", and "Intelligence sharing in organization" ware found. Additionally, the three factors ware considered by Rogers' and Moore's studies.
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Masanori Utsumi
Session ID: D1-2
Published: 2008
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This paper is a research on the solution of the problem of commoditization in the market. I reviewed the researches of predecessors and classified the value that exists inside the product. And also I studied the contact point that is suppliers deliver the value to customers, and aimed to find the concept that the problem of commoditization can be reconsidered at the contact point.
Author's hypothesis is that the benefits of the product and the service are delivered to the customers by the active conduct of business through all contact points.
The differentiation through the addition of the value to the product is one effective way for the market activation. However I thought that it will be more effective way if the suppliers deliver the value of the products to the customers.
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Masahito Shimazaki, Yoshinori Kishikawa
Session ID: D1-3
Published: 2008
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This is a research on the management information to divert business domain for local small companies. Generally speaking, a company is not able to stay in the same business domain forever. Therefore, it is necessary to divert the business domain so that a company could survive. A company has to make a new business plan, at the same time it decides to divert the business-domain. The local small company lacks talented person and suitable knowledge to make a new business plan by itself, and lacks enough funds to engage a consulting firm outside. Although, local small company has to make an effective new plan using the scarce management resources. Then, we investigate a limit of the information based on the analysis of the public data which the local small company can use.
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Takako Yoshioka, Aiko Kurushima, Yukio Noguchi, Fujio Anzai
Session ID: D1-4
Published: 2008
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A gap analysis between Table Index and Purchase Index is necessary in order to analyze the relationship between demand and supply.
A graphic visualization of the analysis is made by manual operation until now. A graphic visualization tool of the analysis has been developed in order to improve the operation.
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Tadao UEDA, Hideaki KITANAKA
Session ID: E1-1
Published: 2008
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In this paper, we give an example that a behavior of an artificial society constructed with an easy examination and a clear procedure as described below fits well with the real market on share, and we introduce the procedure to discuss the validity of our method. A market of warm-water cleaning toilet seats sold by the channel of mass retailers was chosen, and main functions, design, price and promotion were treated as parameters to represent products features. Consumers' values were estimated quantitatively by conjoint analysis. In addition, three model parameters were optimized by genetic algorithm. The simulation result shows a good fit with real market data, and it is suggested that our method is useful to simulate the markets easily. Finally, main error factors are discussed.
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Naoki SHIBA
Session ID: E1-2
Published: 2008
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This paper tries to discuss the validity of models in the agent-based approach (ABA). First, the position of simulation research in the field of information systems will be discussed. Second, the critical consideration will be given to the tradicional concept of "validity". The claims in this paper are, 1) the concept of "model validity" in ABA requires another viewpoint which is differ from the traditional one, and 2) the protocol we should basically follow when we take the ABA as a research method is to make simulation models referable from other researchers in some ways.
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Human Resource Managemetn by Long-time Simulation
YASUHIRO KITAKAMI, MASAHIRO AKIMOTO, SHOTA HATTORI
Session ID: E1-3
Published: 2008
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In recent year, many companies do well at work but the labor distribution ratios of them decrease. In order to sustain motivations of company members, it is desirable for the business manager to set up the adequate labor distribution ratio and income from long-term perspective and to obtain consensus with company members. Yet, there are few systematic researches how personnel systems, such as the seniority wage systems and the performance based wage systems, affect individual incomes. In this paper, we propose analyzing method using the multi-agent simulation, which has been developed by Univ. of Tokyo and Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc for last 10 years.
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Tsunetoshi Horie, Atsushi Inuzuka, Yasuo Ikawa
Session ID: F1-1
Published: 2008
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In this research, we investigated how individual factors as enabling conditions for organizational knowledge creation, especially autonomy and commitment to organizational goal, enhance knowledge creation process using quantitatively empirical analysis. From the data set of company-wide questionnaire within a Japanese industrial machine manufacturing company, both of the individual factors positively affected knowledge creation process. By dividing into four modes of knowledge conversion, the individual factors showed different effects in each knowledge conversion mode. In consideration of an interaction effect between autonomy and goal commitment, we indicated a need of follow-up on their individual factors in the whole processes.
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Yasuhiko Tamura
Session ID: F1-2
Published: 2008
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The knowledge for the supporting of businesses such as work adjustment and negotiations will be better future and general intellectual property in a company compared with the direct type of knowledge such as the technological know-how. Existence of the spot would be always required in order to transfer such a knowledge. Six business model cases are established by considering the daily and general business performing.The spot's important component has been clarified by using the Conjoint Analysis method. In order to get the results, the actual data of Fujitsu related company has been used for the analysis.
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Yoshito Matsudaira, Tsutomu Fujinami
Session ID: F1-3
Published: 2008
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A vital source of competitive advance for a firm is knowledge. In order to create knowledge, each firm has original criteria. In this paper, we think that essence of criteria is an ethical postulate. Concrete things based on the postulate are dispositions of a group and dominant habit of members in an organisation. There is a scientific method to clarify cognitive ability which forms ethical postulates. We propose such a scientific one.
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Moichiro WATANABE, Yasuo TATEOKA
Session ID: F1-4
Published: 2008
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As everybody can recognize, our business environment has been global and its change's speed has been drastically increasing day by day. In this context we cannot help promoting our business activities, based on uncertainty and complexity. Collaboration and Shien process are becoming more effective and important for creating solutions. One of the representative business processes is Nissan's Cross-functional team. The ability which is needed in our present business arena is not "Do" ability and "Make others do" ability but "Shitemorau" capability. In this research the rationality of "Shitemorau" capability will be clarified through the actual sales activities.
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Shoei Komatsu
Session ID: G1-1
Published: 2008
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Up to now, real options have been applied to evaluate information investment projects, while they have been not applied to machinery investment projects. By a tacit consent, traditional indices of economic evaluation are understood to serve the purpose to evaluate machinery investment projects. But the volatilities necessary to calculate real options are acquired only from the analysis a single outcome brought by both investments of machinery and information. Then, the same indices are applied to the both investments, either machinery or information investment, to acquire the volatilities and further the real options. Doing it in this way, the PDCA cycle of machinery and information investment program can be built base on the real options.
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An Analysis of Securities Reports
Shoei Komatsu
Session ID: G1-2
Published: 2008
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On information investments, many researches of ex ante economic evaluation have been done, while almost nothing of ex post. Then, selected economic indices are applied to allocate financial performances to shares of machinery and information investments. Manufacturing enterprises listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange are evaluated on the both investments. As results, it is ascertained that there are large differences on investment economics among business categories and notwithstanding the return on information investment is larger in the average than the return on machinery and furthermore the enterprises of the high return have almost the forward integration with processing and sales. It is considered to suggest that the effectiveness of information depends on the business architecture.
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Dai SENOO
Session ID: G1-3
Published: 2008
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The main point of this presentation is to analyze how the effects of information technology (IT) investments are recognized. Hence we consider the characteristics of investments in IT assets, and those of the organization where these investments were made. Using an original questionnaire, we conducted a survey of Japanese small medium enterprises which were all selected from the "100 Best IT Management Companies." The findings will be showed at the presentation, for example, the effects of strategic IT systems are more easily recognized than those of basic IT systems, agile organizational characteristics may assist in recognizing the effects of basic IT systems, and so on.
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Masaki FUJIWARA
Session ID: G1-4
Published: 2008
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In order to make IT investment effective, it is necessary to invest appropriately in the human resources and the organization: intangible assets. However, there seems to be no effective guidelines about how much investment in the human resources and the organization should be made. This paper suggests the way to search of the optimalinvestment allocation betweeen IT and intangibles.
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Takahiro Yamasaki, Kin-ichiro Tokiwa
Session ID: A2-1
Published: 2008
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Copyright infringement of digital documents has become a serious problem. Because of browsing web documents easily, anyone can create plagiarized documents from originals. It is difficult to detect plagiarized documents for copyright holder, if documents are altered. In this paper, it is proposed how to search plagiarized documents that is suspected of infringement of copyright. The convertible terms are extracted by distribution co-occurrence between the terms and the other terms. Copyright holder can search plagiarized documents by using these terms on search engine.
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Satoru TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiko TSUDA
Session ID: A2-2
Published: 2008
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Text mining, one of the emerging fields of data mining, aims at acquiring useful knowledge from text data. In the asset management in finance task domain, although there exist various text data like accounting settlement or analysts' reports, few research and development have been conducted. In this paper, we will explore the feasibility to extract valuable knowledge for asset management through text mining using analyst reports as text data. As a result of intensive analyses, we found out that we have a chance to get excess return by applying text mining method to investment. This result suggests that analyses through text mining method is effective.
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Hironori Takeuchi, Shiho Ogino, Hideo Watanabe, Yoshiko Shirata
Session ID: A2-3
Published: 2008
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In recent years, analysis of qualitative information has become
remarkably important. In this study we clarify the difference
between bankrupt companies and non-bankrupt companies by
analyzing to the non-financial (qualitative) information
disclosed in Financial Report in Japan (Yukashoken Houkokusho)
using IBM OmniFind Analytics Edition(OAE), one of the text-
mining tools. The results of our study revealed a unique
tendency in the frequency with which key words appear in the
bankruptcy companies.
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Hisashi Hamada, Gendo Kumoi, Takashi Ishida, Yi Ching Tsai, Shigeichi ...
Session ID: A2-4
Published: 2008
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Recently, it is known that a document categorization method using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing
(PLSI) model is effective for Japanese benchmark data sets. PLSI model which is a method of compressing a
document-term matrix is compressed into low dimensional one based on probabilistic structure, is effective for
Japanese benchmark data sets. The purpose of this study is sets to verify whether the document classification
method by PLSI model is effective to the document of not only in Japanese but in Chinese. The document
classification method using PLSI is applied to the Chinese newspaper articles, and the classification precision is
examined.
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TSUNEYO OKUMURA, JUNICHI IKEBE
Session ID: B2-1
Published: 2008
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Many researchers noted that emergent strategy formation process is more viable than intended one under the rapidly changing environment. Emergent strategy formation requires organization to reconsider the role od top management, changes of systems related to the organization and capabilities and behavior of members. Emergent strategy formation process is divided into two phases: initial phase of awareness to changes and strategic issues behind them, and one that include the steps from local trial to institutionalization of strategies. the points of our report are: what is 'awareness' to change, information which stimulates awareness, conditions and systems required to realize awareness and emergent strategy formation process from the perspective of awareness.
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Masato Yotsumoto
Session ID: B2-2
Published: 2008
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Corporate misdoings and scandals have been unending. The Company is accused of business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Since the introduction of the J-SOX, while the institutional aspects of corporate compliance and internal control have being put into place, there is little argument about managing ethical organizations. This argument is intended to respond it with High Reliability Organization theory. The HRO theory has suggested methods to prevent accidents and respond to corporate scandals. But existing HRO theory focuses the micro level of organizational operations, not argued about the macro level of Business and Society. With the HRO theory, for responding to issues of business ethics and CSR, it seems to explore to be a socially trusted corporation as well as a HRO.
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Masaaki HIRANO
Session ID: B2-3
Published: 2008
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Given that the impacts of organizational IQ on the return from IT investments have been empirically demonstrated in previous studies, it is only natural to look into the possible impact of organizational IQ on the return from other assets/resources. In this article, its impacts on the return from Human Resources is investigated to reveal that the organizational IQ affects significantly the relationship between total human costs and firm performance. The result strongly suggests the importance of organizational development along with the human resource development.
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Rika Narisawa
Session ID: C2-1
Published: 2008
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With the transition to the services-based economy, the priorities of enterprises are being human resources' skill-set management and the stretch of their capability. This study is an examination of the effect of visualization and sharing of human resources information on the autonomy and flexibility of human resource management.
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yoshiharu akao
Session ID: C2-2
Published: 2008
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There is an element of the "Person,Product,Money,and Information" in the business.The talent does important works to activate the business.As for organization(talent's)model,operation is not made good as there a lot of uncertainty factors.What is the motive of the talent use? This report researched a good machanism for the business,and the theme is "Career,Personnel evaluation and Wage system."
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Tsuneki Mukahi
Session ID: C2-3
Published: 2008
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This study aimed to analyze a relationship between employees' networks and the knowledge creation process in business organizations by using questionnaires. Although it is acknowledged that human networks are important for the SECI model of the knowledge creation process, the relationship between the networks and the model is still obscure. Based on the theory of weak/strong ties, this study aimed to reveal a relationship between employees' ties and each process of the SECI model. Using an internet research company, data were gathered from employees working in various business organizations, and the data were analyzed.
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Satoshi Hamaya, Naoto Nadayama, Taiki Ogawa
Session ID: D2-1
Published: 2008
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In this research, we demonstrated the validation of e-commerce evaluation model using survey data of Japanese manufacturing and wholesale companies. Major findings are as follows: First, the evaluation model was validated because utilization of E-commerce and other drivers have significant impact to operational output such as rationalization of ordering process and reduction of inventory. Second, although the relationship between e-commerce and rationalization of ordering process is very clear in placing orders, it is not statistically significant in receiving orders. Third, we found that the leadership of top management in introducing e-commerce is very important to generate expected output.
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Takashi OKAMOTO
Session ID: D2-2
Published: 2008
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Along with inexpensive broadband environment that has been widely used by consumers, B to C (Business to Consumer) transaction is expanding. The problem that revitalizes rural economy has been getting more important today. As the internet eases geographical disadvantages, B to C is sometime useful for rural revitalization. At that time, B to C often leases rural merchants to tough competition environment. This paper shows some case studies and suggests two methods so that B to C revitalizes rural economy, especially for small and tiny industries. First is about division that specialize the strong field their own. The other is about collaboration among industries. This paper suggests the way rural small merchants or publics sector revitalize rural economy by using EC.
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Huang George
Session ID: D2-4
Published: 2008
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Online purchases for entertainment as digital copies are starting to replace physical media not only as another form of content delivery, but also changing the nature of the contents themselves. By providing alternative routes to obtaining these goods, content providers can tap into previously unexplored market segments and gain additional revenue through selling the contents to new customers or even same customers. Thus, what has traditionally been one purchase from a customer can turn into multiple purchases. However, there are many factors that affect the user acceptance and viability of pushing contents digitally. It is the intention of the author to examine some of the obstacles that content providers are facing and how they can be overcome.
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Ryo Sato
Session ID: E2-1
Published: 2008
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Innovation architecture, originated by Hugo Tschirky and others, are effective in developing intelligence for service innovation. The intelligence consists of information gathering, evaluation, innovation strategy formulation and implementation guidelines. When the innovation architecture is used for specific service, we need to use additional methods for analysis, since innovation architecture itself is a general guideline and does not have a tool to come up with new service process for innovation. In this paper, the service delivery process and its related analysis methods are employed for the analysis of service innovation in sea port and international trade logistics.
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Tamaki Masumitsu, Kazuhiko Yasuda
Session ID: E2-2
Published: 2008
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By the subsidy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, the field experiment of the new traceability system for the oyster from Miyagi was conducted in 2006.
By connecting the system built this time and the conventional system, it is the system by which both producers and consumers were consistent.
However, the detailed result of this field experiment is not clarified until now.
So, In this study, the result of this field experiment obtained by the interview to an oyster processor and a retailer.
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Mikako Ogawa, Ayaka Tanaka
Session ID: E2-3
Published: 2008
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Information about food products is critical for food allergy patients and their families. There are various risks to read or to decode current food indications if they don't have enough knowledge. For them, it is hard to decide to "eat", even if the decision making "not to eat" would be possible. As one of solutions, a Food Allergen Check Site (beta version) for cellular phones has been designed and implemented. Then a consumer survey has been conducted. In this paper, we will explain about our Mobile Food Allergen Check Site and report user evaluations to it.
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Hideaki Inoue, SHIRO KOMI
Session ID: E2-4
Published: 2008
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In terms of Services Level Agreements on the consignments we inquire into the conditions of diffusions for Traceability Systems used IT tools. . To make secure for Food Distribution most essential conditions are the Certification Systems by Third Party. The Third Parties are subject to administrative services in Japan.
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Through a case in Irodori Business of Kamikatu Town, Tokushima
Yasuhiro Takeda, Shuji Kondou
Session ID: F2-1
Published: 2008
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In this research, through a case in local revitalization of Irodori Business of Kamikatu Town, Tokushima, we show a creation process of the social business by a social entrepreneur, and derive the promotion factor from that. As a result of interview, we were able to classify them in seven processes,a factor of the social entrepreneur was important mainly.
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Minoru Koide
Session ID: F2-2
Published: 2008
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Knowledge is the prime means of production. It is also the capital. However, from the perspective of knowledge management, there is very little discussion about patents for products and services. A patent is not the same as the technical knowledge of an invention. Currently, there is little empirical discussion about the effectiveness of the use of the expertise in order to produce significant patents for the products and services. I empirically discuss the issue of the management of intellectual properties about patents for products and services.
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Taketoshi Yoshida
Session ID: F2-3
Published: 2008
Released on J-STAGE: August 07, 2008
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We propose that some systems methodologies are appropriate to support organizational knowledge-creating processes. For the purpose we introduce the viewpoint of administrative behavior into our consideration about tacit knowing for applying such systems methodologies. Then we indicate the importance of this viewpoint because the loyalties and organizational identification of organization members, which have been developed under healthy administrative behaviors, complement applications of systems methodologies and vice versa. This mechanism will ensure high quality of organizationally created knowledge.
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Shinsuke SAKUMA, Yusuke GOTO, Shingo TAKAHASHI
Session ID: F2-4
Published: 2008
Released on J-STAGE: August 07, 2008
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This paper examines typically effective processes of knowledge retrieval in terms of transactive memory in concurrent software development teams. We propose 6 knowledge retrieval processes, and evaluate the effectiveness of them in 4 typical situations of the concurrent development teams. The results of virtual experiments show that if team members have only incomplete knowledge on others, in large teams rapid or sure knowledge retrieval processes are effective, while in small teams broad knowledge retrieval processes are effective. If the members have enough knowledge on others, in small teams rapid or direct knowledge retrieval processes are effective, and in small teams under load, only rapid knowledge retrieval processes are effective.
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Ryo Shimokita, Shigeru Eura, Hideo Eda
Session ID: G2-1
Published: 2008
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Intelligence for realizing management which aims at competition predominance is closely involved in that case. Intelligence is important for marketing. It is said that marketing is a process which makes the concept of an idea, a product, and service, plans a price, a promotion, and circulation, and performs them. The important thing for marketing is holding the needs of an individual or an organization exactly and planning the increase in demand, and a new market development. However, it turned out that there is a big difference in original marketing and actual marketing. This time, the Intelligence in Industrial Creation is considered by making medical fields into examples.
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In serach of Japanases way of innovation theory
yasushi ogasawara, tomoko shigehisa
Session ID: G2-2
Published: 2008
Released on J-STAGE: August 07, 2008
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Acceptance of American driven innovation theory without crtical attitude in Japan results in inertia of Japanse own innovation argument development. In order to activte the inertia, it is necceary to conduct CDA(Critical Discourse Analysis)over innovation theory development from Schumpeter to Christensen, takig account of
historical and reflexive perspective.
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