Competitive Strategies:

Competitive Advantage

Competitive Advantage: USA versus Japan

Manufacturing Strategies Used by U.S. and Japanese Companies

By Vadim Kotelnikov, Inventor, Author & Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com

Comparative Strengths & Advantages:

  • United States – where markets and technologies undergo constant and rapid changes

  • Japan – where technologies are relatively stable and making incremental improvements is the basis for advantage

 

 

 

GOALS

STRATEGIES

U.S. Companies

 

Venturing unlimited

Motto:

"It's not the big that eat the small... it's the fast that eat the slow."

Japanese Companies

Improvement unlimited

Motto:

"O snail,

climb Mount Fuji

with no hurry."

The Core Advantage

Making Things Better

  • Revolution: radical Innovation, changing the name of the game

  • Technology-focused solutions to enhance product design and manufacturability

  • Quality management: statistical control of processes, zero-defects, and vendor quality programs

  • Evolution: Kaizen, group technology, good condition and proper placement of equipment, smaller manufacturing units, and quality circles

  • Statistical control of processes, zero-defects, and vendor quality programs

Making Things Cheaper

  • Job enlargement programs

  • Outsourcing

  • Automation and robotics

Making Things Faster

  • Continuous reduction of lead and setup times

  • Equipment maintenance

  • Supervisory training

  • Broadening of worker's jobs

Being More Agile*

  • Considering agility as an integral part of quality and delivery capability; a by-product of action programs to improve these areas

New Product Development

* – the ability to introduce faster new products and designs and respond quickly to changing customer demands; the area in which Japanese companies maintain the largest competitive lead over US and European firms

 

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8 Best Practices of Successful Companies

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Kaizen Mindset

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Kaizen vs. Radical Innovation

7 Lessons from Silicon Valley Firms

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

World Cultures, Philosophies, and Religions

East vs. West

The Art of War (by Sun Tzu)

5 Elements of a Competitive Position and 4 Skills of an Effective Competitor

5 Things You Must Know To Win

Strengths and Weaknesses

Jokes

Cross-Cultural Differences

Business International

Culture Dimension Scores for Selected Countries (slide show)

Differences Between Chinese and Americans

Russians: Comparative Character Features (slide show)

Ten3 Global Business Learning Report

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Suggestion Systems: American-style vs. Japanese-style

The American-style suggestion system stresses the suggestion's economic benefits and provides economic incentives.

The Japanese-style suggestion system stresses the morale boosting benefits of positive employee participation... More

Kaizen Mindset

  • Not a single day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company... More

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