日本の強みを活かした持続的競争優位性を実現する生産マネジメント(<特集>持続的競争優位性を実現する"ものづくりマネジメント技術")

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Japanese manufacturing created the second innovation on production management so called Japan model represented by the Kaizen approach to cope with market change. That is still a competitive edge not implemented well in other countries. However together with the shift to zero economic growth after the collapse of bubble economy, its strength has been rather lost and serious quality scandals have happened not imagined formerly during so called "lost decade". According to TOC that emerged intending to overtake Japan model, its most crucial drawback lies at lack of concept of constraints to connect Kaizen effort with managerial outcomes. On the other hand, Japanese country culture is characterized by strong uncertain avoidance which leads to tendency for people to think and behave so as to be highly intolerable to ambiguous situations, and make efforts to decrease them. This is a source of strong motivation to invent high quality and just-in-time. Exploiting this strength intentionally, a new virtuous cycle to materialize sustainable competitive edge may be triggered by management practice so as to recognize and forecast the constraints to connect individual efforts to managerial outcomes, and share them within an organization. This is also a way to convert "lost decade" into "redesign decade".
社団法人日本品質管理学会の論文
2006-07-15