The beginning story..

 

Japan's story with the industrial revolution of electronics began when American investors moved semiconductors to Japan in the 1970s in search of cheap labor. Little did they know that they were planting the seeds of modern Japanese electronic civilization. The Japanese worked in their companies and became experts in operations and understanding production procedures. Then, with their will and the experience and knowledge they gained, they became able to imitate American products with other products that had the same shape and qualifications and were less expensive.

Of course, the technical field was not the only one in which Japanese manufacturers followed the strategy of reducing costs through the automatic system. Rather, this automatic system entered into the improvement process of many Japanese industries. These companies developed many household appliances by operating them with the automatic system, until the companies that produced pens, stationery and music boxes in the early eighties were able to market an advanced robot as a result of the knowledge and experience they gained while developing the automatic technology. If we contemplate the Japanese experience, we will notice that the production of robots that made a big difference in the world today was one of the fruits of this improvement process. 

 

But the more important question is what impact does Japanese success have on American industries today?

 

Over the past thirty years, Japan has increased its ability to produce high-quality products at lower costs, and America has increasingly relied on improved Japanese products. Now, it relies on its own innovation. While America has excelled in consumption and innovation, Japan has excelled in meeting consumer needs and improving existing innovations. It is worth noting that current Japanese and American outputs are due to the philosophy of each culture. American companies, for example, prefer the Three S philosophy, which refers to: Strategies, Structures, and Systems. For example, when an American manager wants to make a change, he will first reorganize the structure and then create a strategic direction and impose a new system, which leads to the creation of a dry, lifeless world. While the success and sustainability of Japanese companies was the result of careful attention to the Four S: Staff, Skills, Style, and Superior Goals (the long-term view).  

 

Finally..

 

We conclude from the above that the innovative process in all its stages, the flash of its innovation, experimentation and evaluation is the same in all ages, circumstances, fields and social contexts in which it takes place, and that we are all creative and innovative at heart and that each one of us has an almost equal innovative capacity, which leads us to the fact that the variation in societies and environments in motivation and values ​​that hinder or encourage leads to variation in the rates and forms of innovation from one society to another and from one experience to another, which means, according to the logic of this vision, that experiences and environments have a noticeable and clear impact on innovation.