Program management is inherited its source from top down type "strategy formulation" methodology in giant administrative organization in America. Its core management is composed of system analysis and budget planning. In contrast, P2M of Japanese first version originated in 2001 is developed for middle managers for "strategy implementation" methodology to public and private enterprises. It is intended to deal with complex undertakings. In the lapse of eight years, a multiple debates are undergoing in contexts of project and program distinctions inclusive of management roles. This paper introduces noted papers in the West motivated by P2M, which underline corporate strategy links and portfolio methods and program management context. Further, the author points out debated issues of relational positioning and interface and value capture upgrade for innovation driven value design. A proposal is exhibited for further survey and research by exploring evolution toward P2M the new version.

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The aim of an innovation program, such as large-scale R & D or the reform of an organization, which includes a group of integrated projects designed and conducted to meet the goals of a mission specified by the owner, such as the president of a company or the head of an administrative organization, is influenced by both the external environment and internal factors. Therefore in order to realize the value of the innovation program, the program manager needs to manage the program in a way which satisfies by both the client of the organization which the owner belongs to, and the members of the organization. As a fruit of research into the management of programs which include innovation, we are developing a new approach to project & program management that provides a solution to these problems, which it is vital for businesses to address if they are to survive and realize growth in turbulent and uncertain environments. This paper discusses the concept of project & program management version2, comparing it with the conventional approach to project management. A particular emphasis is placed on mission logic in the scheme model and feedback communication with the owner in the service model.

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In complexity, indeterminacy, and various environmental big changes, we are required to create new technology by an open innovation strategy and research and development by the cooperation of the company, government and college. Furthermore, for the activation of the economy, local activation is necessary as well as the activity of the company. When we can put it for the development business that such many players participate in, the agreement formation is important. There is a logic model achieving an aim which dose interpolation (back casting) from a vision and needs in the future and perform technology development necessary at present. There is also the technique of balanced scorecard introduced as technique of P2M plays an important role for research and development for such a new business. The importance of the scheme model in the business creation was realized again this time, and P2M2.0 was suggested. By this report, I suggest the management technique of the research and development that combined a balanced scorecard with a logic model as technique of the scheme model.

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P2M requests the knowledge of Project Finance Management. But this Management is one of the management for finance of the respective Project. The Management is not certain as the knowledge for finances of Program which is composed of plural projects, respective business which contains operational works and finances of enterprise's value innovation. And P2M is not clear in relation to Corporate Finance. Then I study the knowledge body of finance necessary to P2M. I can conclude that the knowledge of finance for future creation of value has common base in principle. In P2M we expect that knowledge of Project Finance Management can be innovated as the main knowledge body of finance. Some concrete idea of Education Program for Finance is expected in Human Resource Cultivation in P2M.

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Up to date, guidebooks on project management have been described mainly on project execution after the definition of project but subsidiarily on project planning before the definition. Moreover, the description is downstream to upstream from the contractor's viewpoint. Especially, the trend is noticeable in case of building information systems. Then, the problem is studied upstream to downstream from the owner's viewpoint. That is, the project-program planning management is studied from business assessment to design basis or requirement specification.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the nature of management control mechanism. Using the data from 104 manufacturing industry in Japan, we examine empirically the relation between products strategy, uncertainty, relevant information uses, and performance.

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In designing methods which is represented in the typical design like PMBOK, the management of the work which has clear goal is focused, such as the product development based on given specifications. However, the design which is required in society today, it is necessary to develop as a complex project, to summarize complicated mission as well as for the usage of many stakeholders. In this report, using the logic model and the balanced scorecard as upstream design, a project focusing on the industry-university-government collaboration is launched. The result of applying both tools to the project preparation stage, focusing at the validity of the case and future issues are reported.

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In Asian countries led by China which took a role as the production base, possibility as a huge market has begun to appear. How are the Japanese household appliance companies which presented international marketing lively going to cope with this movement? We set a frame after having reviewed precedent studies. As a result, the necessity of a new frame was found. In addition, it became clear that domestic produced products with high competitiveness were exported abroad as much as the market activity in foreign countries became strong. Furthermore, it is permitted that devices such as parts and synergy with consumer goods were related to there.

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"Industry-Academia-Government collaboration" refers to collaboration between industry (corporations) and academia (universities), sectors with quite different missions, to launch innovative activities that produce new economic value. The first step in this process is the matching of needs and seeds, followed by a variety of spectrum of activities that range from a simple technological consultation through to the development of new technologies or products. The aim of this report is to develop a program leading to economic output based on individual projects, following the P2M concept of IAP2M.

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The IT industry keeps growing up repeating the paradigm shift against the background of the rise of informationization needs of the technological improvement and the society. However, because the change is fast, and the future is not predictable, the strategy of IT company is difficult. In such a situation, the Profiling Management of P2M is useful. This thesis does the profiling of IT company by the profiling management of P2M.

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The 662 firms of manufacturing have already been studied on ex post evaluation of returns on machinery and software (M/S) investments. However, the return on research and development (R/D) expense, being often larger than M/S investment, has not been studied. Especially, the study on R/D is not avoidable for medicine manufacturing firms having huge R/D expense. Then, the 2 variable model of M/S investment is expanded 3 variable model, adding R/D expense. The 29 major firms of medicine manufacturing have been studied based on the extended model and the average success rate of medicine R/D projects, while the extended model is also studied on the propriety of itself.

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The dematerialization of stock certificates executed in January this year becomes the opportunity of the social infrastructure construction of "Make to the electronic commerce" integrated as for the process of the portfolio investment etc. The committee over which Japan Securities Dealers Association presided promoted the reform of securities clearing and settlement system of the dematerialization of stock certificates and others with the character that crossed the industry as a National project that the issuer, the investor, the market participant (brokerage firm, bank, and trust bank, etc.), and each bond settlement infrastructure donor, Bank of Japan, and the Financial Services Agency, etc. relate widely. However, it has not come to construct the business model as an electronic commerce. An advanced case with Europe and America and the fact of my country industry are compared, and the importance of the mission profiling etc. in the business model construction and the practical use of P2M are discussed.

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In recent Japan there is a problem of human cultivation. It is necessary for universities which hold human resources before commencing to the society to carry out human cultivation. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry advocated 'fundamental abilities for all member of society to fill the gap of human cultivation between enter pries and universities needs to carry out class design based on it. This study tried to aim at increasing in fundamental abilities for all member of society by grasping all seminar activities of our laboratory as a 'seminar management project', designing and executing as well as coordinating. Also the metod of BSC (Balanced Score Card) was employed for evaluation on a process of the project. This paper reports the execution results.

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Under the rapidly changing social environment, human cultivation has become significant in many companies. In such the circumstance, it is necessary and responsible for universities which hold a group of humanes who are just before commencing and expected in the sosiety and furthermore related to the growth of society to cultivate them as human resources who are required in the society in addition to aquirement of fundermental abilities as well as special knowledge. Meanwhile an educational method has been required making association with solving real tasks more than usual. Our laboratory has been carrying out our activities involving a DOA educational project under such mind. This research focused on 'fundermental abilities for all member of society' which was advocated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, design a DOA educational project as a human cultivation program and executed it. This paper reports the execution results.

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For the last decades, management theories for public organizations (POs) have vigorously been studied and the number of practical cases is increasing. However, it seems that there is little literature on innovation management, especially on radical innovation for POs. Radical innovation requires POs to allow 'trial and error'. On the other hand, the bureaucracy system, which POs are basically adapted, never allows it. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new type of form that enables POs to solve the contradiction mentioned above.

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The importance of nursing care business increases more and more, when the super aged society is faced. However the turnover rate is high and it falls into continuous manpower shortage, because the working condition is not good. It is not a fundamental solution to rely on an external factor though it is possible to think current situations of the economy and the employment to be a chance of the manpower shortage recovery. In the survey of assisted nursing home for the elderly (interview to manager and questionnaire to staff) in which I was involved, there were a lot of answers that accomplishment and pleasure were felt on the other hand they wanted to resign. In this business to which the person nurses the person, talent is a key point. This research describes current situation and future issues of operational management at assisted nursing home for the elderly.

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Project Management (PM) is supported by methodology "of goal driven management" for technical system implementation. In contrast, Japanese version of Project and Program Management (P2M) is underlined to "strategic implementation management" for expansive application to social and business system. Its methodology must be, therefore, contrived to suit to the purpose for program management to be conclusive and congruent to PM as well. PM view is premised to closed system in stable environment. In the meanwhile, P2M is based on the view of "open adaptive system" and management in unstable environment and the methodology was developed to adapt to the purpose. The back of properties is characterized by knowledge and methods related notably to such capabilities of insightfulness, diagnosis, and integration. A unique P2M method of "Mission Driven Approach" is the source of idea generation for value creation and its holistic picture is drawn by logic of "abduction". The methodology of modeling in "complexity" is also built in architecture to innovation issues. However, confronted with high level of recent finance crisis, betterment to creative integration between head office and program is the target debate. The paper offers some vital proposals for betterment.

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Sustainability for project planning and execution is required for enterprises to accomplish social responsibility. Unlike the traditional ways of project planning and execution, the project personnel has to recognize the necessity of new value added activities which are carried out by the sustainable project management. The author discusses the project organizational design associated with a new type of leadership.

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Ten years passed since words called the knowledge management came to be demanded. Meanwhile, the environment surrounding company and it changes greatly, and the meaning that words called the knowledge management have is changing. The knowledge management is turning into knowledge management of the value creation not a system only as for accumulating by the information of the office now. This flow is suffering from a new tide of information sharing happening in a company now. The existing information consists of it conventionally by data and a context/background. On the other hand, Knowledge adds experience to information, and it is thought about the sleeve. Therefore, it is communalized after I define the information that I got from experience as knowledge, and having done assets. I throw in an example and speak how I communalize it with the structure of the assets by this report.

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American management style has penetrated through Japanese organizations. Especially IT departments do not have capability on tenacious and continuous efforts broadly seen in Japanese manufacturers because introducing new solutions has been advantageous for organizational survival and individual employability. This paper defines "Ability for Continuity" as "organizational ability to achieve goals through empowered self-directive efforts to solve problem" and consider measures to enhance this ability.

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On my previous papers I examined approach variations for the systems approach method in P2M Profiling management and presented some implications to P2M. Therein I proposed a possibility to develop a next version of P2M using such as (SSM+APM) model, which SSM (Soft Systems Methodology) in Program Planning and APM (Agile Project Management) in Project Executing. This paper describes the third thought on them through more examinations afterwards and proposed the Syncreate Management for a next version.

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Information Technology Industry in Japan has severer big problems. 1. They have failure projects in about 70%, because of receiving excessive project. 2. Most of their clients never execute conceptual design for IT investment project and request several revision after their decision has been made. In this situation, their PMO is difficult to control their projects formally. Then, it must be recommended that special fife-fighting taskforce team must be established in their PMO (Project Management Office) for rapid trouble-shooting.

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