Any company faces the challenge of adapting to demographic change. In this chapter, we focus on adversarial change. What if
a new customer segment emerges but has a very different set of needs? What if the growing customer segment brings subtle shortcomings
in your offerings to the surface? Such is often the case with the silver market segment. These changes bring with them great
opportunities for the company to innovate itself. The question is how? The distance of the organizational units and the leaders
who are in charge of both the new and old businesses is critical. Also, when a company starts a new business, it has to carefully
manage these three processes, namely: borrowing, forgetting, and learning. Focusing on organizational distance and the three
processes, we have conducted comparative case studies of Toyota’s adaptation to demographic changes in the USA, which has
led to an insight about how organizational distance has contributed to innovation.