Thursday, December 20, 2012

Agility in Japan Relocation

 

The second attribute; AGILITY!! 

In Japan relocation, we are continually trying to be agile in the market in these different ways.

 

 

Here are Some Agile Traits

 1.     Respond quickly to threats and opportunities

  • Respond quickly to over-capacity and to changes in market demand
  • Respond quickly to the threat of large companies
  • Respond quickly to innovation

2.     Don’t get too big- with smaller size comes greater flexibility

  • Be the best not the biggest
  • Operate under the radar of large firms
  • Be flexible

3.     Grow your business in accord with your customers changing needs

  • Work closely with customers on product design and delivery
  • Collaborate closely with customers on special projects
  • Develop intimacy with customers through joint ventures and long-term contracts
  • Grow your business with innovative products
  •  Grow with customized products and services
  • Grow via alliances
  • Grow by means of integration with your customers infrastructure

4.     Move toward new and promising markets where customers have specialized needs that only you can meet

  • Move to new industries
  • Move to new concepts
  • Move to alternative markets and suppliers
  • Move to underserved niches
  • Move to creative people

5.     Be an aggressive acquirer, taking advantages of the opportunities to broaden and enhance your product offerings

  • Purchase competitors
  • Broaden geographic scope
  • Purchase for talent and efficiencies

6.     Be sufficiently diversified so that you can compensate for a decline in one segment with strengths in another.

  • Diversify into new markets
  • Diversify into varied products
  • Diversify into new technology
  • Diversify into small niches
  • Diversify into multiple platforms
  • Diversity into related products