Tag Archives: Apple
What Apple Can Learn From Japan
Apple is the publicly-traded company with the highest market capitalization in the world as of 2012, and certainly one of the most idolized. With revenue and total assets each in excess of $100 billion for the 2011 fiscal year, it’s … Continue reading
The Nail That Sticks Out
Japan’s getting some bad press at the moment, and I’m not all that surprised. The Olympus debacle is center stage in the mass media as the Nikkei plummets; nobody’s quite sure what to make of the situation as Michael Woodford, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, culture, Google, Japan, job hunting, Ken Mogi, Nikkei, Olympus, rebel, unity, Woodford
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Soft Power Play
Soft power is a rather vague term. Its varieties are so numerous that most attempts to define the term end up doing so by stating what it is not – hard power. However, pop culture may be the most referenced form … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, Apple, Haruki Murakami, iPhone, Japan, literature, manga, Nobel Prize, Pokemon, pop culture, soft power, Toyota
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Saying Goodbye
It has to be said, Steve Jobs’ death mixed things up a bit. I was on the train heading to school when I saw it on Twitter — the social media sites had it circulating before the large news corporations … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Apple Store, CEO, Ginza, Japan, Jobs, Steve Jobs
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The New Lost Generation
My recent posts have centered on Japan’s youth, and this post serves as a follow-up to the previous one. I caught a recent debate conducted by The Economist pitting incremental development [ID] against disruptive innovation [DI]. ID is the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Americans, Apple, economics, education, goals, policy, Toyota
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