This paper describes the importance of strategic community creation as a new management style. It verifies that video‐based information networks utilizing information and multimedia technologies enhance the quality of competencies and knowledge possessed by strategic communities, and it also...

Purpose – Aims to provide new practical viewpoints regarding the knowledge management and leadership theory of project management through an in‐depth case study Design/methodology/approach – Argues that community leaders can develop a concept of a business community comprised of diverse...

This paper presents a case study of how, over the last six years a large, a traditional corporation simultaneously created new service markets and established a dominant position in the competitive information and communication technology field in Japan. The corporation accepted a new...

Purpose – To produce rapid innovation, Japanese companies have learned to manage strategic communities for new product development. These communities require the merging and integration of different technologies and the coordination of relationships among all levels of management, alliance...

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...