Auteur: Akira Ishikawa

When analyzing 7-Eleven Japan’s advanced and innovative management style, the authors of this book highlight the existence of the “integrated information system”. This is because of the key role it p …

Amid the current, protracted recession in Japan, new corporations â termed global excellent companies by the authors of this book â have been rising since the end of the 20th century. They are not ye …

This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifesp …

New products and new business development require innovative, creative marketing solutions in order to successfully differentiate them from competing products in the marketplace. This important book …

This fascinating book focuses on Kyoto high-tech companies that have captured leading market share with globally preeminent technologies and yet have been able to maintain their robust profitability …

Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, financial collapses, and other crisis situations have occupied public attention to an unprecedented degree in recent years. In the face of these events, the stud …

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance — including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, inc …

This book discusses the essence, concepts, techniques, and applications of business intelligence. It also explores different aspects of crisis management, knowledge management and knowledge sciences, …

Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention. With the growing visi …

Fuzzy knowledge and fuzzy systems affect our lives today as systems enter the world of commerce. Fuzzy systems are incorporated in domestic appliances (washing machine, air conditioning, microwave, t …