Project Governance in Japanese companies(<Special Issue>Project Management in Corporate Activities)

Abstract

It has been more than 30 years since the notion of the project management began to be recognized in Japan. It is common knowledge that this way of thinking and technique have spread out from the engineering industry. However, the present notion of the project management has extended the area of management beyond an original area. The importance of "Project Governance", which is to pursue not only a success of each project but also a contribution of company value improvement when the project succeeded and an understanding of bad influence and an examination of right or wrong of the project enforcement/continuation when the project is a failure, comes to be realized. This following report considers the actual situation of "Project Governance" at a Japanese firm from the view of both project and management.