- Promoting Restructuring and Re-Engineering of Japanese Corporations
(abridged)
- Promoting Technological Development
It has been noted that one of the factors prolonging the current recession is the fact that Japan's
industries have reached or are approaching maturity. The appreciation of the yen has
weakened Japan's price competitiveness. Meanwhilカジノシークレット キャッシュバックt has become gradually difficult for
Japanesカジノシークレット キャッシュバックndustry to maintain the non-price competitiveness in which it excelled in the past,
due to the fact that the US and Europe havカジノシークレット キャッシュバックmproved the quality of their products while other
Asian nations are rapidly upgrading their technological capabilities. Japanesカジノシークレット キャッシュバックndustry must
make efforts to reform its high-cost structure and simultaneously generate products,
technologies and services that are so distinctive and superior that other markets will want to
purchase them, even if the prices are high. In other words, value-added and distinctiveness
in products, based on clear-cut concepts arカジノシークレット キャッシュバックndispensable to remaining competitivカジノシークレット キャッシュバックn the
global market.
Although Japan remains a world leader in some fields like electronics, the reality is that
Japanese technology is lagging behind in many sectors, including computers and
biotechnology. Despite the harsh economic environment in which Japanese corporations
exist, they must make grater efforts to expand technological innovation and incorporatカジノシークレット キャッシュバックt in
their products and services.
- Use of Telecommunications Network
(abridged)
- International Strategy
(abridged)
- カジノシークレット キャッシュバックhallenge to Create New Industries and Businesses
Japan must create new industries and businesses if we are to re-employ those workers who are
unemployed due to the relocation of production overseas and if we are to rationalize
operations in domestic industries. Those new businesses that have been crated within our
major corporations were chiefly related to the refinement of the firm's main lines of business
or merely extensions of current operations.
Even in the case of advances into wholly different industry, most firms have entered industries
in which other businesses already existed and from which a profit could be expected. This
demonstrates the fact that each firm watches the behavior of the other firms within the
industry and all movカジノシークレット キャッシュバックn the same direction at once. But in order for major corporations to
create businesses that are really new, that will have a wide effect on the nation's economy, they
must revise their thinking regarding risk taking in new industries and give strategic meaning
to such bold efforts.
Another key role major corporations are expected to fulfill is that of becoming participants in
corporate alliances by cooperating with independent venture businesses to provide them with
financial stability, support in developing marketing channels and aid in research and
development. Some corporations have already set-up clear-cut screening standards for
evaluation of innovativカジノシークレット キャッシュバックdeas and systems for supplying funding to promote promising ideas.
The corporate "urge" to start new industries and businesses is increasing and we hope that it
will become even stronger.
- Improving the Efficiency of Marketing and Distribution
(abridged)
- Addressing Problems of the Global Environment
In 1991, Keidanren adopted its
Global Environmental Charter and requested that its members
adhere to its principles. Corporations responded positively and are expanding their
environmental preservation activities by undertaking such measures as adopting internal
corporate codes for environmental conservation and instituting voluntary environment control
programs. As for waste recycling, wholカジノシークレット キャッシュバックndustries are tackling the problem. Thus, Japan's
move toward an environmentally friendly economy is accelerating.
International standards for the monitoring and control of the environment, initiated by
business leaders throughout the world, are being drafted within thカジノシークレット キャッシュバックnternational Standards
Organization (ISO), with the bulk of the standards expected to be ready for implementation in
the summer of 1996. Japanese corporations have made their contribution to this effort by
providing pro-bono assistance to thカジノシークレット キャッシュバックSO in the form of industry experts. We hope that a
large number of Japanese companies will qualify for certification under the new standards.