Corporate Strategy For Dramatic Productivity Surge

Jacket Description/Flap: 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, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size, reduction of costs and increase in revenue, among others. This book consists of five parts Introduction, Case Studies of Super Effects in Management Functions, Case Studies of Global Scale Super Effects Realized, Case Studies of Super Effects in Marketing Domains, and Conclusion: The Road to Realizing the Super Effect featuring more than fifty successful cases of productivity surge or super effects, including risk-driven ones. Productivity surge herein means a dramatic reduction of costs, at least by one-tenth, while maintaining effectiveness or discontinuous increase in effectiveness by at least 10 times, while keeping the costs the same. Cases highlighted in the book are instrumental and valuable for the organizations worldwide to evaluate processes, avoid unnecessary failure and work towards future success. Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction / Tetsuro Saisho -- Part I. Case Studies of Productivity Surges in Management Functions -- Section 1. Time Reduction -- Chapter 1. Welding Steel Plates Six Times Faster / Tetsuro Saisho -- Chapter 2. The Reduction of Drying Time by 90% / Tetsuro Saisho -- Chapter 3. The Sudden Rise in Web Conferences and Teleconferences / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 4. The Reduction of Traveling Time from Five to Three Hours / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 5. Shortening Inspection Time by 90% / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 6. Instantaneous and Spontaneous Information Sharing / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 7. The Development of a Three-Minute Battery Charger / Torn Fujii -- Chapter 8. High Speed Measurements Enabled by the Multi-Head Weigher (The Computer Scale) / Takashi Yonezawa -- Chapter 9. The Remarkable Speeds of Sorting Machines / Takashi Yonezawa -- Chapter 10. A Ten-Fold Boost in Speed and Durability of the Zip Chain Lifter / Takashi Yonezawa -- Chapter 11. The Introduction of the Virtual OS-Based Thin Client / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 12. The Future of the Smart Meter / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 13. The Acceleration of Processing Speeds Through the Evolution of Algorithms / Takashi Yonezawa -- Chapter 14. Increasing Order Processing Capacity by 400 Times to 600 Tunes / Tetsuro Saisho -- Chapter 15. A Ten-Fold Increase in Maximum Output of Photovoltaic Power Generation / Tetsuro Saisho -- Part II. Case Studies of Global-Scale Super Effects -- Section 1. Improvement in Sensitivity -- Chapter 16. Dramatic Changes in the Classification of World Competitiveness by Country / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 17. The Spread of Intelligence Olympics / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 18. A 150-Fold Increase in Followers Through a Limited Discount / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 19. Boosting Sales of Publications via Data Mining / Kazuo Matsude -- Section 2. Higher Precision -- Chapter 20. Customers' Return-to-Store Rate Through Twitter Usage Exceeds 50% / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 21. 3.5 Million Net Increase in Mobile Phone Contracts within a Year Due to Twitter Effect / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 22. Seawater Desalination Business Enabled by Reverse Osmosis Technology / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 23. The Surprising Properties of High Electric Current Density / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 24. A Fifteen-Fold Increase in Followers Through Ground-Breaking Activities / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 25. A Thirteen-Fold Increase in Registrants Through a Limited-Time Event / Junpei Nakagawa -- Section 3. Increases in Effectiveness and Efficiency -- Chapter 26. CO2 Reduction Business Utilizing Electric Hydraulic Shovels / Torn Fujii -- Chapter 27. CO2 Reduction via the Realization of Next Generation Thermal Power / Tom Fujii -- Chapter 28. Introduction of the Electric Bus Infrastructure / Toru Fujii -- Chapter 29. Twitter-Driven Record-Breaking Profit / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 30. The Globalization of Inter-Regional Mobility Through Low-Cost Carriers / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 31. Achieving a 15% Savings in Electricity without Reducing Factory Output / Tetsuro Saisho -- Part III. Case Studies of Super Effects in Marketing Domains -- Section 1. Size Changes -- Chapter 32. The Process of Organizing Information / Atsushi Tsujimoto -- Chapter 33. The Learning Process in Product Development / Atsushi Tsujimoto -- Chapter 34. Signs of Explosive Expansion in Global Geothermal Power Generation / Toru Fujii -- Chapter 35. Smart City/Smart Community Markets / Toru Fujii -- Chapter 36. The E-Learaing Market's Growth Potential / Akira Ishikawa -- Chapter 37. Expansion of Management Consulting Project Scenarios via Information Dispatches / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 38. Rapid Expansion of Partnerships Through Participating in Common Points Programs / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Section 2. Cost Reduction -- Chapter 39. Reduction in Cleaning Costs by Approximately 60% / Tetsuro Saisho -- Chapter 40. A 40% Cost Reduction in Transporting China-Bound Cargo / Tetsuro Saisho -- Chapter 41. Suica's Role in Generating Revenue and Reducing Operational Costs of Vending Machines / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 42. Business Opportunities in Ultracompact Orbiter Development / Akira Ishikawa -- Section 3. Sales Expansion -- Chapter 43. Rakuten's Sales Expansion by Entry into the Financial Business / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 44. CECIL McBEE's Product Development Model / Atsushi Tsujimoto -- Chapter 45. Provision of Organizational Information through Twitter / Atsushi Tsujimoto -- Section 4. Other Cases -- Chapter 46. Acceleration of the Commercialization of the Service Business in the Manufacturing Industry / Torn Fujii -- Chapter 47. Improvement in Convenience and Economic Effects Achieved Through ID Sharing (Expansion of Economic Effects) / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 48. The Blue Card's Customer Attraction Effect in Nagano Prefecture (Customer Attraction Growth) / Hiromichi Yasuoka -- Chapter 49. Increasing the Number of Visitors Through Twitter Enlarging the Number of Followers / Junpei Nakagawa -- Chapter 50. Energy Self-Sufficiency with Algae that Produces Oil Discovery of a Raw Material / Kazuo Matsude -- Chapter 51. Negative Effect of International Politics / Akira Ishikawa -- Conclusion: The Road to Achieving the Super Effect / Akira Ishikawa, Tetsuro Saisho -- About the Editors and Authors -- Afterword -- Index.