Developing Knowledge Convergence Through Collective Phronesis

Dr. Mitsuru Kodama is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Media Innovation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jissen Women’s University, and Professor Emeritus at Nihon University. He has published 19 books in English – including Collaborative Dynamic Capabilities for Service Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Competing Through ICT Capability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), – and articles in several international scholarly journals. Prior to working in academia, he was working as a project leader at NTT and NTT DoCoMo for around 20 years. In 2003 he received an R&D 100 Award in R&D Magazine in US.

• Chapter 1: Acquiring Collective Phronesis in the Era of Convergence- Chapter 2: Boundaries Innovation through the Creation of Boundaries Knowledge and Convergence Knowledge - Case studies on Apple, P&G, and NTT DOCOMO.- Chapter 3: Creating dynamic fractal organization through collective phronesis by Apple.- Chapter 4: Innovation by Technology Convergence through High-End Disruption by Cisco, Microsoft and Zoom.- Chapter 5: Creative New Product Development in Semiconductor Industry- Case Studies of Qualcomm, TSMC and NVIDIA.- Chapter 6: New Knowledge Creation through Technology Convergence- Case Studies of Toyota and Panasonic.- Chapter 7: Holistic Leadership and Dynamic Fractal Organizations to bring about Collective Phronesis　- Comparative Case Studies.- Chapter 8: Building Communities through Holistic Leadership for Sustainable Innovation.