This book presents the concept of business architecture and optimizing processes as a corporate system based on multiple corporate case studies, including Sony, NTT-DATA, NTT-DoCoMo, Toyota, Honda, Omron, Takara, Recruit, First Retailing, Panasonic and Canon.
Building Dynamic Capabilities View of the Firm
The book introduces a comprehensive theoretical framework known as The Strategic Innovation System, designed to equip companies with the necessary capabilities to drive strategic innovation. It emphasizes the integration of various elements within organizations to foster creativity and adaptability, ultimately guiding businesses toward sustainable competitive advantage.
Focusing on holistic systems theory, the book explores strategic management in the context of rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICT). It examines how key management elements—strategy, organizations, technologies, operations, and leadership—interact and adapt to convergence in today's complex environment. This comprehensive approach offers insights into navigating the challenges and opportunities presented by advanced ICT in strategic decision-making.
Dynamic Capabilities and Competitive Advantage
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of IT-enabled dynamic capabilities within global corporations, utilizing longitudinal studies to develop a new theoretical framework. It emphasizes the role of collaboration systems through the lenses of micro strategy and organization theory. Aimed at academics, researchers, students, and business leaders, it provides valuable insights into the implications of these capabilities for enhancing organizational performance and strategic alignment in a rapidly evolving business environment.
Communities of Boundaries Generate Convergence
At present, many companies consider «knowledge» the most important element and the benchmark for maintaining an enduring competitive advantage. The process of strategically acquiring both new boundaries knowledge and convergence knowledge to generate boundaries innovation becomes an important element in acquiring dynamic organizational capability. This is essential for rapidly establishing a company’s market position in new markets and technologies. This book discusses from a micro-viewpoint different strategies for companies’ sustainable generation of boundaries innovation through the creation of both types of knowledge. It focuses on strategic management activities centered on innovation processes (incremental innovation and radical innovation) in a company. In the future, the knowledge convergence processes practiced by individuals, groups and organizations inside and outside the company will form the basis of dynamic innovation activities. These will continually create new boundaries knowledge and convergence knowledge, as well as the organizational capability for supporting these. The «knowledge convergence firm» this book proposes is a new corporate model that achieves sustainable boundaries knowledge by promoting creative, productive friction among people, and between and amongst communities. It does this by implementing knowledge convergence processes at diverse boundaries within and outside the company.