Product Description: With the development of the aging society and the increased importance of emergency risk management in recent years, a large number of medical care challenges - advancing medical treatments, care & support, pharmacological treatments, greater health awareness, emergency treatments, telemedical treatment and care, the introduction of electronic charts, and rising costs - are emerging as social issues throughout the whole world...read more

Product Description: "Business architecture" is a concept for optimizing corporate boundaries aimed at realizing targeted business models and corporate system design involving stakeholders. To optimize the corporate boundaries, companies must partially and/or wholly optimize the individual management elements s (strategy, organization, technology, operation, and leadership) comprising the corporate system that has achieved congruence with its environment...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Proposes that video communications tools are a form of infrastructure that enhance the creation of new knowledge which transcends space and time in business activities. Illustrates that the dynamic relationship of four elements of ICT capability promote the formation of business networks and the development of knowledge communities...read more

Product Description: Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the development of new products and services is no longer enough. In Interactive Business Communities, Mitsuru Kodama shows how a new business approach can enable managers to access, share and integrate diverse knowledge both inside and outside the corporation using Boundary Networks to operate across more formal organizational and knowledge boundaries at all levels...read more

Product Description: "Innovation Networks in Knowledge-based Firms" explores corporate strategic management in an information and communication technology (ICT) environment, and illustrates the significance of new business models based on 'boundary innovation' management through broadband networks as fixed and mobile wireless infrastructures...read more

Product Description: The progress of broadband ICT is having a big impact on individual lifestyles and corporate activities. For corporate strategy, broadband use goes beyond improving management efficiency to contributing to enhancing customer services and developing new markets...read more

Product Description: This unique book unveils an invaluable paradigm for companies wishing to create new knowledge. Mitusuru Kodama's new theoretical framework is achieved using a combination of approaches including knowledge sharing, knowledge integration, strategy, organization, corporate culture and leadership...read more

Product Description: This book considers the concept of strategic community, a framework that integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups or organizations across boundaries. Case studies demonstrate how strategy, organization and leadership in corporations, represent the dynamic view of strategy necessary to obtain competitive organizational capability...read more