Journal of the Society of Project Management
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Print ISSN : 1345-031X
Social Project and Asynchronous Communication : Concerning Electric Power Risk Provision Project
Ken'ichi MATSUMOTOFukuya ISHINO
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2004 Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 33-38

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Necessity of the social activities against the electric power risk and the asynchronous communication for the social projects are discussed. The social projects, which include a large number of stakeholders, are different from the individual projects considering consensus building and communication management. The electric power risk provision is one of the typical examples. As it is estimated that about 40% of power demand will be from atomic power generation in the near future in Japan, it must be assumed that there is possibility of power shortage because of some uncontrollable reasons concerning the recent disasters and accidents related to electric power. Also, it is impossible to explain what would occur by the sudden power shortage. Though private power plants are prepared at some organizations as the individual provisions, there are no social design concepts against such electric power risk. Since the influence of the risk is wide and the unsolvable problems for the individual projects exist, it is required to regard this problem as the double layered structure of the social system reform project and the individual projects. Because there are a lot of stakeholders in the social system reform project, the upper project, the conventional synchronous communication is unsuitable for the communication among the individual projects. Then, the open database is indispensable for organizations to obtain the necessary information and to resister the risk provisions asynchronously depending on their situations. Furthermore, it is required to standardize the risk provision level and to establish the neutral agency to authorize the provisions in advance.
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