In 1986, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is the first Japanese automobile manufacturer that launches the keen luxury brand called as Acura. Sideways to its key business on automobile and motorcycle, Honda has moreover manufactured on the marine engines, garden equipment, and personal watercraft as well as the power generators. in addition, they ventured into the aerospace through the E Honda Aero Engines establishment in 2004 as well as, Honda HA-420 HondaJet that aimed to launch on 2012. Approximately 5% of Honda revenues are spent into R&D.
Additional from a leader of automaker, according to Lash and Wellington (2007), Honda is the worlds “greenest” as well as it outperforms the norms from the industry on areas for instance, with hybrid battery-and gasoline, low carbon technologies, and fuel cell vehicles. By the philosophy underpinning on the simplicity of itself, the firm is continuing driven by never reproduce of others. According to McGregor (2007), the performance and success is driven through the leader of innovation. According to Andersen and Zaelke (2003), as the only firm the produces the various kinds of powered equipment worldwide for instance, automobiles, jets, marine, motorcycles, and power products, Honda is “the global major engine creator with more than 15.2 million production annually.” The green innovation and performance was illustrated in Honda’s continued success statistic in figures 1-2.
Figure 1: Environment Scores (Lowest Best)
Source: UCS Automaker Ranking (2007)
Figure 2: Vehicle manufacturers’ gross profit margin Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007)
Business Strategy
The Honda’s business advantages are sharpening by R&D on the aggressive competition of Honda among rivals, and all are defined as the Honda’s business strategy. At Honda, the most things proud is on its R&D system and with these systematic approaching ways, durability focusing,