地域の再生と観光ビジネス

One of the methods of revitalizing a regional economy is to promote the development of tourism business. The ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport\u27s Visit Japan Campaign (VJC) kicked off in April 2003. VJC is a strategic program designed to encourage a sharp increase in the number of visitors to Japan from overseas. In comparison to the 16 million Japanese travelling overseas annually, only 5 million foreign tourists visit Japan. The "Inbound Tourism Initiative of Japan" aims to lessen the gap as quickly as possible. The "Strategic Meeting of the Inbound Tourisn Initiative of Japan" was held in February. 1994, and the "Shikoku Members Board"(a 100-menber board), was held on February. 19,2000 in Takamatsu City. The author discusses the meanings of the "Inbound Tourism Initiative of Shikoku and Tokushima", and suggests how to promote the revival of the Shikoku district\u27s economies and industries through a rapid increase in the number of visitors to Shikoku

CSR(企業の社会的責任)とSRI(社会的責任投資)(一般)

With the evolution of civil society, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has recieved greater attention and has become an important criterion for selecting products and services, as well as evaluating corporations. In order to improve management quality-and not only to give consumer satisfaction, but to inspire customers-one indispensable basic factor is to integrate into the process of business activities a high sense of ethics and fairness, as well as concern for human rights, the environment and society. In today\u27s global society, all people believe it is increasingly important for corporations to take responsibility for their own actions and properly communicate their endeavors to a multitude of stakeholders. The rise of SRI is closely linked with the growth of key social and environmental movements over recent decades no comma which have shaped changes in society\u27s values and concerns. Socially responsible investing is an investment process that considers the social and environmental consequences of investment, both positive and negative, within a rigorous financial analysis. It is a process of identifying and investing in companies that meet certain standards of CSR and is increasingly practiced internaionally. More and more fund managers have become interested in SRI. This is partly because of client demand, but also due to the shift in approarch from negative screening to a combination of both engagement and screening. The author discusses how Japanese corporations should contribute to the sound development of society by supplying quality products and services. In doing so, they must reinforce the importance of business ethics

ケア ト チシキ ソウゾウ ノ カンケイセイ ニ カンスル イチコウサツ クローグ ノ ショセツ オ チュウシン ニ

This article introduces the concept of "Ba" to the organizational theory and that of "Care" to the knowledge creation process. Care is something most human beings heed and is defined as serious attention, a feeling of concern and interest. Care gives rise to trust, active empathy, lenient judgement and also translates into real help. Organizational relationships range from high-care to low-care. Depending on the extent to which care is present, the knowledge-creation process will differ considerably. In view of this, I argue that to support wledge-creation, a foundation in "Ba" is required, and care must be the core of the Ba generation (ie : industrial cluster in Japan, Italy and America such as Keihin district, Packaging Valley and Silicon Valley) through the building of trust

デファクト・スタンダード ト オープン ガタ ケイエイ コウド ジョウホウ ネットワーク ニヨル グローバル シジョウ ケイザイカ ノ ドウイン

In the economic world, the \u27de facto standard\u27 is a key phrase that helps obtain a competitive advantage, while facilitating integration of the market based economy. The author defines the concept of the \u27de facto standard\u27, \u27opensourcing\u27, \u27opensystem\u27, and \u27open style management\u27, then describes the framework of promoting and accelerating the adoption of a de facto standard, quotng the case of the confrontation between MICROSOFT groups and anti-MICROSOFT groups regarding the standardization of common specifications of portable computing machines. The author concludes that arrangement of de facto universal rule among company groups will provide strategic marketing success

アカシ カイキョウ オオハシ カイツウ ガ トクシマケン オロシウリ ギョウ トウ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ ト ブツリュウ ジョウホウ リュウ キョウドウカ ジギョウ

The formal opening of the AKASHI-Grandbridge in 1998, will produce a serious effect on the business activities of Tokushima-area wholesalers while increasing its business chances. What are the concerns? How we can overcome them? The author concludes that only wholesalers\u27 collaboration efforts in the physical distribution network making use of high technology information will secure their sustainable and successful future

EC モデル ト インフォメディアリ メガ コンバージェンス ニヨル アラタナ ジョウホウ チシキ サンギョウ ノ ソウシュツ

Recently, Informediary one of the newest business models, has received increased attention in light of new management paradigms and techniques and knowledge that effective business-business and business-consumer (in other words, supplier-buyer) relationships will contribute to a firm\u27s strategic success. According to many articles published in both practitioner and academic journals, it appears that the exchange and mediation of information between buyers and suppliers has played a more important role in the sphere of Electronic Commerce or e enterprise in the past few years. This article reviews two approaches to the verification of the model\u27s behavioral and functional uniqueness by comparing the dot com business model, such as amazon.com with the Informediary model. One approach is to compare the advantage and disadvantage of each with respect to the ownership of a firm\u27s specific assets and facilities, the other, the capabilities of promoting and expanding more profit gainig opportunities. It concluded that Informediary will be a more popular and hopeful concept in coming the period

ネットワーク インテリジェンス ト モジュラリティ

Network intelligence and modularity are the emerging terms that emphasize interactions among broadband, Internet and knowledge management. As Mohanbir Sawhney et. al (2001) point out, network intelligence is the Rosetta Stone that can enable executives and entrepreneurs to decipher many of the phenomena shaping the future of business. They also define network intelligence by its functionality ; its ability to distribute, store, assemble, or modify information. The objectives of this paper are firstly to create a systemic framework that is broad enough to represent a wide range of possible factors that may impact value trends in the network age. Secondly, this paper will explain how, within the framework the adoption of a modular approach to product and process architectures can greatly improve performance and power for knowledge management, especially focussing on the knowledge creation process in which tacit, explicit and morphogenic knowledge circulate spirally. Finally the author will discuss the implications of peer to peer (P 2 P) economies

SaaSに関する一考察

As the Palmisano Report (2004) point outs, there is a growing trend towards trying to build innovation networks in a more conscious fashion ; innovation focusing on service oriented style or service science. In the ITsystems world, these movements will be translated into the fashionable key words "Software as a Service : SaaS". The word "Service" means that customers pay not for owning or producing the software itself but for using or leasing it. SaaS is a software application delivery model where a software vendor develops a webnative software application and hosts and operates the application for use by its customers over the Internet. There are two types of SaaS providers.The first is an ASP where a customer purchases and brings to a hosting company a copy of the software (a singletalent architecture). The second type of SaaS offers what is often called software ondemand,where a company offers to customers software specifically built for one-to-many hosting (a multitalent architecture). Key characteristics of SaaS software are: 1. network-based access to commercially available software 2. activities that are managed from central locations rather than at each customers site, enabling customers to access aplications remotely via the web 3. application delivery that typically is closer to a one-to-many model than to a one-to-one model 4. centralised feature-updating, which obviates the need for downloadable patches and upgrades. In brief, SaaS is beginning to shift from a pure software application delivery scheme to a very sophisticated usage and delivery model for business process functionality. This paper discusses the concept of SaaS, key characteristics of software deliverd by SaaS, a comparison of APS versus SaaS, the concepts of SOA, Ajax, Rich client, and so on

サプライチェーン・マネジメントとバーチャル・インテグレーション : デルのダイレクトモデルを中心に

Dell Corporation has transformed itself into the largest computer systems company in the world by leveraging its business knowledge and effectively using the Internet as an enabling technology. Business models in electronic commerce are clasified as follows: (1) the informediary model (2) the community model (3) the customer agent model (4) the market auction model (5) the seller agent model, and (6) the direct sales model. Unlike other computer companies, Dell has a direct sales model. The Dell Direct Model is simple, yet competitors have not been able to successfully copy it. The authors explore the reasons why Del Direct Model can fulfill customer satisfaction and maintain competitive advantage