A Viable System Model Reinforced by Meta Program Management

Hiroshi Tanaka
2013 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences  
The global markets are embroidered by profound complexity woven by the persistent worldwide economic recession, the EURO crisis and shift of economic powers as well as escalating competition among traditional and emerging suppliers of hard products. Many companies with hard products are facing their eroding competitiveness as they base their corporate value on excellent, yet locked-in hard capabilities. Especially, the Japanese leading electronics companies have reported shaky business
more » ... ces in business year 2011 while other Japanese companies with systems products are performing well over the Japanese industry average. Against these rugged performances of the Japanese companies, a natural question arises as to what makes such a difference now among those in the same manufacturing industry which used to be generally performing well in a line; whether an enterprise viability system problem exists with the troubled companies; and what are solutions that project and program management can contribute to in the complex market environment as now. This paper configures a resilient enterprise system model in the Japanese "monodukuri" industry, or, the industry of manufacturing and systems environment integration, which would enable companies to consistently cope with changing environment and produce corporate value out of ecosystem adaptation and systems integration capabilities on the foundation of meta program management.
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.03.017 fatcat:zdctzoc3gncjzafekhrbvu6pw4