Preface and Acknowledgments

This is the third book I have published as a single author through Edward Elgar Publishing. The book discusses strategic management and innovation activities in corporations from the perspective of the capabilities of individuals, groups and organizations. This book is the result of substantive observations made over a long period of time by me in the business workplace, and analysis of those observations. The industries I selected for this research are those in primarily high-tech areas such as ICT. The reason for selecting this field from among the many industries is because it has the most intense changes in business models due to the particularly dynamic evolution of the capabilities in it. Over 21 years, I experienced the exciting business of mainly companyinternal ventures and the development of new products, services and businesses in the rapidly changing ICT field. Through past business experience, I found that a driving force supporting learning and innovation in companies is capabilities, and that these are dynamic elements that are constantly changing. I found that these capabilities evolve by the orchestration (or integration) of the assets (knowledge) of people and groups, the leadership of top and middle management, and staff, and dynamic process to achieve real business. The asset orchestration, leadership, and dynamic process dynamically formulate and implement strategy in corporate organizations. An important aspect of the evolution of capabilities is the theoretical perspective on dynamic capabilities. At the micro level, practitioners either consciously or unconsciously, and dynamically network assets (knowledge) to bring about continuous strategic innovation and sustainable growth. The purpose of this book is to extract micro level theoretical frameworks (capabilities congruence, strategic innovation capabilities, strategic innovation loop, strategic innovation system, sustaining strategic innovation model) for companies to bring about new assets (knowledge) and strategic innovation with a realistic view of organizational and strategic dynamic processes in industries that are constantly changing through time such as the fast-moving ICT field. As a researcher of business persons and in the field of business and management studies, the most important objective of this book is how to bridge theory and practice. For this reason,