Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market

Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2005.

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Main Author: Oto, Hiroyuki
Other Authors: Michael A. Cusumano.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33551
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spelling mit-1721.1/335512019-04-11T13:52:15Z Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market Oto, Hiroyuki Michael A. Cusumano. Management of Technology Program. Management of Technology Program. Management of Technology Program. Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-91). The objective of this thesis is to identify key factors that will produce further growth for NTT DoCoMo in Japan's mature mobile market. Since the early 1990s, the mobile phone market in Japan has grown rapidly, and competition for additional market share resulted in technological innovations like NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service to mobile carriers. Until recently, those innovations had leveraged the growth of the mobile phone industry. However, in 2004 the number of mobile phone subscribers exceeded 85 million and penetration rate reached 66.6%. Under such circumstances, the growth of the mobile carriers is gradually slowing. Moreover, there are threats which have the potential to change the current business model: mobile number portability, flat rate, new entrants, and globalization. In this thesis, I develop and organize frameworks that can be used by a company to produce further growth in a mature market by using traditional growth models. Then I analyze the sources for growth in mobile market and how the threats affect current dynamics in the mobile market. Finally I examine how the frameworks can work for NTT DoCoMo, and discuss the keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market. by Hiroyuki Oto. S.M.M.O.T. 2006-07-31T15:11:54Z 2006-07-31T15:11:54Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33551 63272300 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 91 leaves 3997368 bytes 4001127 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf a-ja--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market
title Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market
title_full Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market
title_fullStr Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market
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title_short Keys for growth in Japan's mature mobile market
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topic Management of Technology Program.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33551
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