CIGS Seminar："Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World"

Presentation by Professor Cusumano
Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World（PDF：1.8MB）

Presentation by Mr. Kurihara (Moderator)
A Novel and Innovative Corporate Japan in the Post-quake and Globalizing World（PDF：369KB）

Seminar's outline
Title： 「Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World」
Presenter： Professor Michael Cusumano
　　　　　　 Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT
Moderator： Mr. Jun Kurihara, CIGS Research Director

Seminar's main points
Professor Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. He teaches courses at on the Software Business and Digital Platforms as well as Advanced Strategic Management.
His latest book titled Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy & Innovation in an Uncertain World was awarded as one of the 2011 Best Business Books by the strategy + business Magazine (Issue 65, Winter 2011), the thought leadership and management magazine published by Booz & Company. According to strategy + business, Professor Cusumano identifies "the big ideas that create staying power and superior performance," and those ideas are "the principles that should have enormous value for managers in all industries."
This time, Professor Cusumano addressed a CIGS audience over his principles to maintain superior business performance and discussed with participants in detail.

Agenda
13:30-14:30
1. Special Lecture: Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy & Innovation in an Uncertain World

14:30-17:45
2. Discussion with Participants
(a) Platforms, Not just Products:
Successes and Failures of Product-only Strategy, and Japan's Platform or Complements Strategy
(b) Services, Not just Products (or Platforms)
Dangers of Excessive Dependence on Products-or-Platforms, and Japan's Services Strategy
(c) Capabilities, Not just Strategy
Challenges Global Companies Facing with Regard to Capability Building, and Japan's Capability Strategy
(d) Pull, Don't just Push
Dangers of Push-only Strategy, and Japan's Pull-style Strategy
(e) Scope, Not just Scale
Contrast between Scope and Scale, and Japan's Scope Strategy
(f) Flexibility, Not just Efficiency
Japanese Companies Trapped in Flexible Rigidity, and Flexibility in the Age of Globalization