This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

Introduction -- Product Architecture and IT strategy -- Global Business Model Building based on the Three Core Competences and Business architecture -- Architecture Analysis for Sustainable Innovations -- Architecture analysis and core competence strategy for Emerging Markets -- Integration of...