What Japan has sorely needed of late is more adaptability outside of the factory, in its capital markets, labor force and distribution.
For example it may become very clear that the marketing team develops poor advertising, the finance team makes lousy forecasts, the sales force is not hitting its distribution goals, or the product development team failed to incorporate key elements.
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Imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and known as the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), many of the new regulations come into force at the end of 2012 for those sections of the investment industry that deal with the public.
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The variable Stock and Watson ultimately cite is the decline in labor force participation, and they argue it is driven by the aging of the workforce and the overall distribution of workers by age.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said the severity of the economic downturn - and the need to make huge savings - might well force politicians to look much more fundamentally at the role of the state and the nature of wealth distribution.
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