Proposal of System Design Framework using Layered Lifecycle Structure

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Launching a new system is essential for a company to continue its business. When a product or service is launched to the market as a product that provides completely new value, it not only fails to provide that value under the current legal and operational environment, but rather often causes conflicts with existing systems. Start-up products that do not consider the constraints of existing laws and operational environments to a great extent are expected to cause such problems. However, since new values have the potential to provide benefits not previously available to humankind, the focus should be on how to accommodate and transform society rather than dismissing them as incompatible with existing laws and operational environments.

This paper focuses on the life cycle as a design concept to address this problem. Much of the discussion of life cycles to date has focused on life cycles for the System of Interest. This paper makes a clear distinction between the lifecycle of the law, the operational environment, and the object. We then propose a framework that considers the interactions among these three life cycles. The possibility of conflict-free social design by utilizing the proposed framework is also explained using the introduction of electric kickboards in Japan as a case study.