Kiwi Samrai - SecureFit industries in Japan

Case study can be downloaded from internet : https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/15498_Fatehi_Case6.pdf 1. How do the business practices in Japan, as described in the case , compare with those in your home country?

2. Why do you think that SecureFit Industries and its chairmain, Eion Williams, have been so successful in Japan?

3. How will the management transition at SecureFit affect the relationship with their major supplier, Masanobu?

4. What will Mark Blyth have to do to maintain the business relationships in Japan? How might this differ from what Eion Williams would do?

5. How central to Mark Blyth's success is his fluency in the Japanese language? His knowledge of Japanes business procetices? His engineering background?