Business

Successful sharing of existing facilities generates a new system

It is said that modern society has greatly changed owing to the development of ICT, and the manufacturing industry and logistics circles hav ...

Companies that encourage internal whistleblowing will gather force

The Act to Revise the Whistleblower Protection Act was enacted on June 8, 2020 (it will be in effect in 2 years). This revised Act will make ...

Data analysis is not a conclusion for data scientists

Data science has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years. This is because effective utilization of data is required to solve prob ...

Brand value development–an issue for Japanese companies

In recent years, brand value management, which focuses on brand value development as the core of management, has been receiving more attenti ...

The force of Management Visualization changes Business

The recent progress in digitization using IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligent) is largely changing business styles. They ...

Books sell better when the bookstore sets the price!?

The publishing market in Japan has been shrinking continuously since the latter half of the 1990s, leading to what has been called a publish ...

What is more effective than staging strikes in achieving better working conditions?

Labor strikes are so common in France that they are considered to be one of the key features of the country. In contrast, walkouts are rarel ...

We are the agent for innovation that creates new value

Innovation has been a buzzword in recent years. Generally, this word is often translated into gijutsu kakushin in Japanese [literal translat ...

Glocalization: an intriguing blend of globalization and localization

The importance of “glocalization” in corporate international business has been emphasized for some time. But the concept is rather elusive. ...