6Strategy
- 6.1IT Strategy and Planning
Learn the IT strategy that realizes management goals, Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the blueprint for organization-wide optimization, BPR/BPM and business process modeling that rework the business itself, RPA that automates routine tasks, and DX (digital transformation) that reshapes business models through IT. We also cover system planning and requirements definition when moving a system forward, external procurement via RFI/RFP, and forms of solution business.
- 6.2Management Strategy
Learn competitive strategy tools that analyze the competitive landscape—SWOT analysis, PPM, Five Forces analysis, and core competence—as well as marketing (4P, STP) for delivering value to customers, KGI/KPI/CSF and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for measuring how well a strategy is achieved, CRM/SCM/ERP that support customers, supply networks, and core operations, and the value chain that captures the flow of added value across a company's activities.
- 6.3Technology Strategy and Business Industry
Learn MOT (management of technology), which leverages technology as a management resource, innovation that brings disruptive change, the technology roadmap that lays out future technology development, and practical AI applications including IoT, machine learning, deep learning, CNN (convolutional neural network), and generative AI, plus business systems such as POS and EDI, e-business such as e-commerce and fintech, and JIT, which eliminates waste in production.
- 6.4Corporate Activity and Legal Affairs
Learn forms of corporate organization, the fundamentals of accounting including the income statement, balance sheet, and break-even point, OR/IE that treat inventory and planning mathematically (linear programming, hypothesis testing, the seven QC tools), intellectual property rights such as copyright and industrial property rights, security regulations such as the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, labor and trade regulations such as the Act on Proper Subcontracting Transactions(renamed) and the Worker Dispatch Act, and standardization via ISO/JIS.