Enterprise Innovation Management Forum for Innovative value-creation 1999.02.22

Enterprise InnovationManagement Forum for Innovative value-creation
This forum, with participants from industry, government and university, addressed the theme of innovation and value creation in business organizations amid a rapidly-changing social environment in which conventional management values are being discarded. There was joint examination with business leaders of recent research cases, and distribution of the findings via the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Nikkei Shimbun.
 
■ Programme(22th February 1999)
 
1. Greeting by the Sponsor
 
2. Key Lectures
‘Knowledge Revolution in Japanese Companies’
Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
‘Towards the Exciting Management Revolution’
Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
 
3. Panel Discussion- ‘Customers, Information, Innovation: Challenges for the 21st Century’
1st Case Study – ‘Asahi Breweries, Ltd.’
2nd Case Study – ‘Housing Group, Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd.’
3rd Case Study – ‘Yamasa Corporation’
Akira Goto, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Ken Kusunoki, Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Hyungoh Lee, Assistant Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Junji Miyahara, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Akira Takeishi, Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
 
■ Programme(8th December 1998)  
1. Greeting by the Sponsor
 
2. Key Lectures
‘Managing the Workplace for Knowledge and Change’
Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University and Professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
‘Why do we need innovation research now?’
Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
 
3. Innovation Workshop
1st Case Study – ‘Management Reforms of NEC Semiconductor Business Group’ (Awarded 1st Management Quality Prize)
Sadao Nagaoka, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Yaichi Aoshima, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Tadahisa Inoue, Managing Director, General Research Centre, NEC Corporation
Minoru Minami, Planning Section, NEC Corporation
 
2nd Case Study – ‘Product Development of Man-machine Interface aimed at World Standards’
Toshihiro Nishiguchi, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Ichiro Hondo, Deputy Manager of R&D, Zanavi Informatics Co. Ltd.
 
3rd Case Study – ‘Digital Camera ‘Camedia’ – Creation of a New Business Domain’
Akira Goto, Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Ken Kusunoki, Associate Professor, IIR, Hitotsubashi University
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, DI Operations Promotion Section Chief, Olympus Optics Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Hatsuo Shimizu, R&D Co-ordinator, DI Operations Promotion Section, Olympus Optics Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
 
4.General Panel Discussion on the theme of ‘Managing the Creation of Innovation’