Setting key performance indicators (KPIs) that influence Key Goal Indicators (KGIs) such as sales, sales volume, market share, among others, in a new product development program of an enterprise is extremely in important management matters. In order to implement intermediate and final evaluations in product development more efficiently and objectively, a relational model of each evaluation indicator was constructed based on mathematical evidences. First, the relationship between Key Goal Indicators, such as three-year sales, market share, and intellectual property creation in product development, and Key Performance Indicators used for intermediate evaluation of KGIs were modeled using Bayesian network analysis based on approximately 1,000 data points. Furthermore, the clusters generated due to the differences in business type and annual sales of the enterprises that conducted product development were converted into nodes and incorporated into the model, which made it possible to grasp the presence or absence of the effects in terms of the correlation generated between indicators, attributable to the characteristics of the enterprise. The model constructed in this way revealed that, irrespective of enterprise attributes, the status of human resource development affects ”three-year sales” of a developed product, while the failure rate affect ”three-year market share”. Besides this, based on this model, key management points in product development were extracted, along with the directionality of examination. Moreover, the validity of these results was confirmed through comparison using factor analysis and a survey of related studies. In the future, we will further refine the detection processing of the influence, especially in terms of enterprise attributes in the proposed method, attempt to improve it through demonstration experiments, and implement it in real society as a data-driven management support engine in a collaborative platform that promotes various innovations.

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The Japanese semiconductor industry, which has swept the world, has been declining since 1990, and vari-ous surveys and studies on the causes of its decline have been published. On the other hand, the first author of this paper has been working for the Japanese semiconductor firm for almost 5 decades and has led the project management initiatives approximately for the last 20 years. Even though those made outstanding outcome in terms of project success, they did not lead to the success of the entire business. In this article, we conducted reflection on the project management initiatives those had been led by myself, and analyzed the cause of the business decline from the perspective of program management. Through this analysis, we re-vealed the importance of the perspective of program management and business ecosystem, not just project management.

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An important aspect of software process improvement activities is to establish a company-wide mechanism for promoting improvement activities. Each development department will utilize the mechanism to carry out improvement activities. However, there are reports that the mechanism for promoting improvement activities is complicated and difficult to construct. In addition, it has been reported that it is difficult to utilize external improvement cases. Therefore, we came up with ideas from improving these issues from P2M framework, which manages programs and projects on a company-wide basis. In this paper, in order to solve these problems, we propose a process improvement activity promotion framework using P2M.

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RPA (Robotics Process Automation) has been widely used as one of the measures to popula-tion decline. Specifically, robots, known as Digital Labor, replace human work and improve the business productivity of white-collar workers. The trend toward corporate digitization is expected to accelerate in the future to DX (Digital Transformation) to create new businesses. In this paper, we applied and verified the human-centered design process of P2M theory to a case study project for the purpose of applying RPA to DX

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The purpose of this research is to propose a new educational method for group work exercises aimed at fostering ”future strategic design business producers”. This research paper presents the overall lesson plan for the group work exercise, focusing on the specialized subject ”Global Product Strategy II” of the Faculty of Business Management at Aoyama Gakuin University, which has been offered from 2015 to the present. The feature of the new educational method of the group work exercise is that it corresponds to P2M and further combines project-based learning and active learning. Online lessons were introduced in 2020 due to the influence of the new corona, and the next research purpose is to present a system concept of the hybrid learning platform that can handle both face-to-face lessons and online lessons.

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In the social problem solving support program, the integrated office needs to take on the task of setting the “outcomes” that are the effects on society. The existence of a PO “Program Officer“ (hereinafter referred to as “PO“) as an administrator is indispensable. In addition, six creative integrated management (profiling, architecture, strategy, platform, life cycle, value index) can be effectively demonstrated to build a program with a high probability of success. Using P2M theory, we verified that these can increase the value of the program and bring about the expected outcome goals to society.

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In Iwaki City and surrounding cities and towns in Fukushima Prefecture, citizens have worked to regenerate agricultural land and overcome rumors with the aim of recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear disaster. The ”Fukushima Organic Cotton Project” has continued its activities from 2012 to the pre-sent by collaborating with various local actors and interacting with companies, groups and individual vol-unteers in the metropolitan area. Regarding the process of restoration, reconstruction, and sustainable com-munity development, we will clarify the regional reconstruction co-creation system through civic collabora-tion by considering the reconstruction activities and the previous research on regional revitalization applying the P2M theory, the questionnaire survey for volunteers, and the P2M theory.

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The Teshima Waste Disposal Project is a project to detoxify and recycle the wastes of the Teshima Incident, in which about 900,000 tons of industrial wastes including contaminated soil were illegally dumped in the western part of Teshima, Tonosho-cho, Kagawa Prefecture. Since the settlement of the pollution arbitration in 2000, the project was started with the idea of ”Co-creation” in which the local government and residents are involved as the main actors. In the progress of the project, we have built the local information platform to support the co-creation of residents and the local government by monitoring and sharing the progress of the project through visualization of quantitative data by 3D modeling. In this study, we introduce the specif-ic development specifications of the information visualization system as an example of the implementation of each function in the platform theory, with the aim of providing more practical support for the Teshima project.

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