6Strategy

• 6.1IT Strategy and Planning

  Learn the IT strategy that realizes management goals and Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the blueprint for organization-wide optimization, together with BPR/BPM and business process modeling that rework the business itself, RPA that automates routine tasks, and DX that transforms the business model. We also cover system planning, requirements definition, external procurement via RFI/RFP/competitive quotation, and solution business (cloud/SaaS adoption), pushing at level 3 into judging the validity of a procurement process itself.

• 6.2Management Strategy

  Learn competitive strategy tools that analyze the competitive landscape—SWOT analysis, PPM, Five Forces analysis, value chain, and core competence—as well as marketing (4P, STP) for delivering value to customers, KGI/KPI/CSF and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for measuring strategy achievement, and CRM/SCM/ERP that support customers, supply networks, and core operations. At level 3 this tests the integrative skill of combining several analytical frameworks to reach a single management decision.

• 6.3Technology Strategy and Business Industry

  Learn MOT (management of technology), innovation (open innovation, the valley of death), the technology roadmap, practical AI applications including IoT, machine learning, and generative AI, business systems such as POS and EDI, e-business such as e-commerce, fintech, and the long tail, and JIT/kanban, which eliminate waste in production.

• 6.4Corporate Activity and Accounting

  Learn forms of corporate organization, the fundamentals of financial accounting including the income statement, balance sheet, and break-even point (fixed/variable cost), financial indicators such as ROI/ROE, and OR/IE that treat inventory and planning mathematically (inventory management, linear programming, demand forecasting, hypothesis testing, the seven QC tools, decision trees). At level 3 this focuses heavily on calculation and judgment from concrete figures.

• 6.5Legal Affairs and Standardization

  Learn intellectual property rights (copyright, industrial property rights), security-related regulations (the Unauthorized Computer Access Law, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, the Act on Regulation of Information Distribution Platforms), labor and trade regulations (the Worker Dispatch Act, the Act on Proper Subcontracting Transactions), compliance, and standardization (ISO/JIS, de jure standards, de facto standards). At level 3 this emphasizes accurate understanding grounded in current (up-to-date) law and institutions.