High hurdles of social issues in Japan are featured by the four attributes of program by P2M theory. Creative reforms of projects have been subsidized by national policy and communities are being faced with governance of multiple projects or program execution stages to activate industries and human resources in globalized interfaces. The creative integration management for program is vital to account for governance role to policy makers or managers. Here, the “Architect Jump” methodology of antecedent researches is focused to explore and apply the new tools of “Value Design Review” for quantification and “Architect Canvas” for visibility in practice.

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The importance of program management for R&D has been widely pointed out up to now, and study has also been progressed in P2M, aiming for the improvement of the theory, by putting R&D in scheme model preceding product development and commercialization. On the other hand, it can be possible to regard R&D itself to be the main target of management, and to realize that R&D should be positioned in scheme model, system model, or service model in a higher level of 3S model, in some cases. In this paper, how R&D should be positioned in program management has been reorganized for further discussion, expecting to support the improvement of theoretical framework in the future.

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Effectiveness of program approach in Official Development Assistance was repeatedly discussed in the lnternational Association of Project & Program Management. In this thesis, based on the previous discussion, P2M theory is introduced into the formulation of empirical methodology and verified. The very first step is the selection of two groups of ODA projects which were successfully implemented and recognized as programs. Hypothetically, integrated management of ODA projects is effective for realizing the entire harmony and synergy under the constraint of available resources. In the thesis the case in Bolivia’s water supply sector and another case in Vietnam’s transport sector are selected as successful ones. The second step is pursuit of common factors of effectiveness. In both selected cases factors of effectiveness are evaluated and confirmed in terms of program design and relationship management of P2M. The third step is the feedback of effective management factors from P2M theory to practice. Among these management factors good practices are very influential. Accordingly, a menu of management methods is presented, specifying very effective management methods in terms of ODA projects. The summary is the presentation of methods of i) practical program design, ii) good relationship management and iii) system formulation to strengthen the sustainability after the program implementation, in accordance with program life cycle.

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Software developed in an external project is transferred to customer. In this study, the interviews about the transfer were conducted to the eight project managers (PM) belonging to large companies which are entrusted the information system development. The survey revealed that PM needs not only capability to take over the products but also knowledge gained in the development. It is the capability of recognizing a customer's program of information system and transferring the knowledge acquired in a development project to an operation team through a customer. There are guides, such as project standard, skill standard, and other. However, they don’t indicate the PM capability for knowledge transfer explicitly. This paper proposes the model of knowledge transfer in information system development, which shows PM’s level of capability of knowledge transfer.

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The authors have suggested “multi-program platform” as a strategic framework for realizing the corporate vision in companies. By analyzing the processes and protocols of this framework, we have described the necessity of conducting dynamic alignment of programs that perform management activities autonomously at customer and business process viewpoint for achieving a common value of companies—corporate vision. In the process, it has explained that importance of the super program structure, R&D orchestration, and decision-driving protocol that become core elements of the “multi-program platform.” In this article, the above contents are organized and summarized and are explained about “multi-program platform” by applying the selected examples.

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In traditional organization structures focused on project orientation, there is few margins to develop and implement new management approaches and technologies. Strengthened functional departments can promote changes in a more consistent and longstanding way than temporary project teams, once they accumulate knowledge when collaborating with other business functions in multiple projects. The purpose of this position paper is to discuss an alternative organizational structure on behalf of innovation based on P2M. The mindset shift follows the creation of a new function named Catalysts in functional departments, responsible for reducing barriers to Kaikaku and accelerating the transformation process. The Catalyst intermediate and align strategic vision of top management and people in the workplace, taking advantage of learning cycles to guide consistent proposals and negotiate resources to enable Kaikaku at programs.

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Japanes manufacturing industry are in severe business environment, reason of the stagnation of Japanese economy and breakthrough of emerging industry. The authors have participated in numerous advanced research and development at a commercial vehicle company ND motor with a small scale but function-intensive organization, and have launched the first domestic and world's products in the world. In this research, we outline the practice of a function-intensive organization that can consistently implement product planning / concept, research development, product development at commercial company ND motor, and consider it from the viewpoint of P2M, It takes a thought on research and development organization. These examples of research reports are unlikely to be known by the authors, and in addition, we think that it is significant to develop a new ground for the study of the automobile development program in the P2M field and has significance.

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