The column in HBR indicates that “the best policy is to keep your head down in Japanese organization structures” which means a company stifles innovation won’t able to obtain the sustainable growth. It is told that Japanese organizational structures have the following three elements.
#1. Employee can identify the internal rivals at his early stage in the company due to common internal promotion.
#2. The promotion of internal rivals mitigates an opportunity of his promotion.
#3. The reason why work processes in Japanese structures are not well defined and the processes are interdependent occurs that employees can interrupt each work.
These three elements result in stifling the internal innovation. Especially in #3, it is imperative that the organizational structures put job functions in order. TIC implements replacement of authority, responsibilities and functions in the clients’ structure for BPR Consulting Services.