Announcement of White Paper Publication: A Realistic Solution for Business Portfolio Management to Achieve Growth Strategies
Monozukuri Ventures and Japan Management Association Consultants have jointly published a white paper on growth strategies and business portfolio management for the manufacturing industry. It advocates for balancing short-term performance with long-term growth investments and leveraging open innovation.
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Monozukuri Ventures (headquartered in Kyoto and New York, CEO: Shosei Makino, hereinafter "MZV"), which operates a specialized investment fund for hardtech startups, has announced the publication of a white paper titled "A Realistic Solution for Business Portfolio Management to Achieve Growth Strategies," co-authored with Japan Management Association Consultants (hereinafter "JMAC").
This document organizes the challenges of business portfolio management (PPM) that manufacturing companies face in pursuing sustainable growth and compiles perspectives for considering future growth strategies.
How to balance short-term performance with medium-to-long-term growth investments is a crucial theme common to many companies. This white paper re-examines such management challenges and offers hints for considering growth opportunities that cannot be captured by merely extending existing approaches.
Furthermore, it provides materials for considering the future of business portfolios, including the potential for open innovation through collaboration with startups. For details, please refer to the full white paper.
White Paper Overview
Title
A Realistic Solution for Business Portfolio Management to Achieve Growth Strategies
Part 1: Startup-Led Open Innovation
Main Contents
* Organization of practical challenges in PPM for manufacturing companies
* Issues regarding the balance between short-term performance and medium-to-long-term growth strategies
* Proposal of the "Large Enterprise Client Model" for startup-led open innovation
* Organization of value for both large enterprises and startups
* Concept of co-creation supporting commercialization and social implementation
Target Audience
Management, corporate planning departments, new business development departments, CVC and open innovation personnel, etc., of manufacturing companies.
Download Method
This white paper can be downloaded from the following page.
Format: PDF (Free)
Download from this link
Co-authoring Company Overviews
Japan Management Association Consultants
As Japan's first consulting firm, since its founding in 1942, JMAC has been providing execution support for solving various challenges faced by companies for over 80 years. As a comprehensive consulting firm, we propose optimal solutions and support reform and productivity improvement for our clients' challenges.
[Representative Director] Yohei Otani
[Address] 7F, Japan Management Association Building, 3-1-22 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo
[URL] https://www.jmac.co.jp/
Monozukuri Ventures
Monozukuri Ventures, based in Kyoto and New York, is a company that operates VC funds for hardware startups and provides technical consulting for hardware prototyping and manufacturing.
In January 2020, Darma Tech Labs (Kyoto), which operates Makers Boot Camp, and FabFoundry, Inc. (New York) merged their management resources for hardware startup support to form Monozukuri Ventures. To date, they have invested in 59 hardware startups in Japan and the US (28 in Japan, 31 in the US). They have also supported over 250 prototyping and mass production projects, mainly for startups. (All figures as of November 2025)
[Representative Director] Shosei Makino
[Address] Umekoji MArKEt 3F, 34 Suzaku Hozomachi, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
[URL] https://monozukuri.vc/ja/
■Please see here for recent media coverage:
https://monozukuri.vc/ja/news/?group0=gr1_media
This document organizes the challenges of business portfolio management (PPM) that manufacturing companies face in pursuing sustainable growth and compiles perspectives for considering future growth strategies.
How to balance short-term performance with medium-to-long-term growth investments is a crucial theme common to many companies. This white paper re-examines such management challenges and offers hints for considering growth opportunities that cannot be captured by merely extending existing approaches.
Furthermore, it provides materials for considering the future of business portfolios, including the potential for open innovation through collaboration with startups. For details, please refer to the full white paper.
White Paper Overview
Title
A Realistic Solution for Business Portfolio Management to Achieve Growth Strategies
Part 1: Startup-Led Open Innovation
Main Contents
* Organization of practical challenges in PPM for manufacturing companies
* Issues regarding the balance between short-term performance and medium-to-long-term growth strategies
* Proposal of the "Large Enterprise Client Model" for startup-led open innovation
* Organization of value for both large enterprises and startups
* Concept of co-creation supporting commercialization and social implementation
Target Audience
Management, corporate planning departments, new business development departments, CVC and open innovation personnel, etc., of manufacturing companies.
Download Method
This white paper can be downloaded from the following page.
Format: PDF (Free)
Download from this link
Co-authoring Company Overviews
Japan Management Association Consultants
As Japan's first consulting firm, since its founding in 1942, JMAC has been providing execution support for solving various challenges faced by companies for over 80 years. As a comprehensive consulting firm, we propose optimal solutions and support reform and productivity improvement for our clients' challenges.
[Representative Director] Yohei Otani
[Address] 7F, Japan Management Association Building, 3-1-22 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo
[URL] https://www.jmac.co.jp/
Monozukuri Ventures
Monozukuri Ventures, based in Kyoto and New York, is a company that operates VC funds for hardware startups and provides technical consulting for hardware prototyping and manufacturing.
In January 2020, Darma Tech Labs (Kyoto), which operates Makers Boot Camp, and FabFoundry, Inc. (New York) merged their management resources for hardware startup support to form Monozukuri Ventures. To date, they have invested in 59 hardware startups in Japan and the US (28 in Japan, 31 in the US). They have also supported over 250 prototyping and mass production projects, mainly for startups. (All figures as of November 2025)
[Representative Director] Shosei Makino
[Address] Umekoji MArKEt 3F, 34 Suzaku Hozomachi, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
[URL] https://monozukuri.vc/ja/
■Please see here for recent media coverage:
https://monozukuri.vc/ja/news/?group0=gr1_media