For the various cyber businesses of the future based on the Internet, multimedia and other new electronic fields, business organization styles, management methods and the distribution of management resources must be re‐structured to accommodate the transformation of the business environment....

For the last few years, the videoconferencing system market represented by multimedia technology has enjoyed strong growth in Japan. Behind the recent upturn in this market was the strategic alliance of NTT, Japan’s largest telecommunications carrier, and PictureTel of the USA, followed by the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors for generating new knowledge creation in the fields of high tech requiring the integration of a variety of technologies and business models. Design/methodology/approach – The case study will center on NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest...

In the last few years, Japan has seen rapid growth in the multipoint connection service market involved in videoconferencing systems represented by multimedia. The trend depicts the background scenario of the birth and major growth of the multipoint video communications market initiated by NTT,...