The author deals with Ingenious Management of Japanese mode and SMART method proposal to augment P2M application. Democratic leadership has been favorably accepted being dominant in Japanese climate. Top down disruptive style leadership is few but effective in restructuring to integrate prospective growth strategy. In mega transition, the essential point is the vital role of Program Manager acting as strategic partner and change agent who may apply P2M standards. SMART is the methodology proven by the patterns observed in exceptional cases of success in big companies. To overcome the cliff of legacy system to the new in 2025 reputed in Japan, the enterprise level of DX vision and SMART way and method shall be placed more in priority rather than technical optimization.

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Emergence of digital enterprises represented by GAFA brings a big change to our daily life. Many cases which those enterprises offer as their business models are different in a user of service and a customer who will pay the charge which leads to the revenue. This is the same business model that an enterprise which is represented by a commercial TV broadcasting company offers contents for free of charge to an audience and acquires a revenue from an advertisement of an enterprise. A company breaking into a market was limited at the time because there was regulation by occupation of a communication line, but now entry of many enterprises including a startup is being promoted because the regulation is loose by digital. Building of this new business model will be new business development. The development requires a program management. Taking up the business transformation using digital technology from the program management viewpoint considering such a background herein, I will make clear the relation between digital transformation and the program, the role of the program manager, and the program management process and the issues.

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In recent years, with the evolution of IT, one of the corporate issues is to promote new value creation using digital technology called digital transformation (DX). However, there has been a situation in which companies are still becoming DX-based and management methods suitable for DX have not been established. In preparation for the spread of DX, which is expected to become more widespread in the future, regarding organization management, which is considered to be one of the factors hindering the promotion of DX, the organizational management of existing business models of IT companies that are promoting customers and their own DX A case study was conducted on the organization management of a business innovation organization corresponding to DX. In particular, we discuss the effectiveness of P2M when applying a compatible agile method to business innovation organization management as a management method for accelerating corporate agility, which is the purpose of DX.

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DX-related research conducted by IPA in 2019 said that many enterprises tried Digital Transformation (hereinafter DX), but only 30% of the enterprises gained a certain level of outcome at maximum. It shows that DX methodology for easy-to-use has not been built yet and lack of human resources for taking initiative of DX is a cause of the situation. In this study, we propose one-point focusing DX method for organizational breakthrough, and we discuss how to select appropriate DX theme for first try and how to apply the proposed DX method to actual business cases.

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The purpose of this research is to encourage small companies to promote IT management and DX. Therefore, we created an IT management promotion process and verified its effectiveness. We thought that if it was possible to promote IT management and DX of small companies, which account for about 85% of Japanese companies, the introduction and utilization of IT by all Japanese companies would be promoted, which would contribute to improving productivity. In this paper, we will promote IT management and DX according to the process of promoting IT management for managers and small companies who want to promote IT management and DX with a certain level of IT management maturity I hope you can stand on the starting line. Create the process and announce the results of the verification.

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Due to the improvement of the Internet use environment including the mobile network, diversification and high functionality of the terminals, anyone can use a great variety of IT services anytime, anywhere. The method of offering IT services to the user diversifies. In some cases, the target service is offered directly, but in another cases, the target service is offered as option service or is offered by the collaboration with a competitor or the different type of industries. In such situations, it is necessary for the service providers to continuously enhance the service strategy to maintain and increase the market share between competing services by considering a change of the whole market and the customer expects. Therefore, the decision making about development, introduction, an evaluation, improvement and the marketing strategy of IT service is becoming a very important problem for service providers. We propose the IT service management platform to support the problems about decision making.

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In recent IT service market, the method for providing services, user's needs, use environment and market situations are changing continuously, and then becoming complicated and making diverse increasingly. Especially, the method for telecommunication services offered by mobile carrier makes diverse. The cell-phone service and the data communication service are offered as the core service, and various optional services such as entertainment service are offered. This paper shows our proposal of IT service management platform which supports service management of complicated and diversified IT services, and then, presents the management model of telecommunication services and an application example. In an application example, we focus on users which use video streaming service with mobile terminal, and analyze the effect of the new service menu which a mobile carrier provides.

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Due to spread of eSports, games played at home since the PS3 era have become more competitive. Traditionally, gaming competitions in Japan have been held at arcades. But as home game consoles are increasingly connected to networks, it has become popular for game players worldwide to show their skills at competitions. This paper explores the effect of the game communities on game industry during hardware upgrades. The presence of players and audiences alone does not create an active community. eSports communities have been formed and maintained with hardware online matching system and segmentation of software by play level.

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Solving social issues requires the participation of many stakeholders, such as the Co-Design method, at each stage of business planning, conception, planning, investment, organization, execution, operation, risk management, etc. At the same time, it will be extremely important to develop platform functions, which are important means to promote stakeholder exchanges and increase knowledge productivity. In this paper, various functions and platforms must be operated by a PO (Program Officer) that satisfies the above functions. The purpose of the operation is to realize the program mission of the ski model in the 3S system. We thought that such management by PO should be regarded as creative integrated management, and verified it using P2M theory.

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Since Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are universal, consisting of 17 goals, localization of goals is crucial. Local communities need to adjust SDGs to their context, setting the mid- and long-term goals. With a focus on regional revitalization, the government develops Japan’s SDGs model by selecting municipalities as the ”SDGs Future Cities,” since their proposals were highly evaluated to achieve SDGs. In this study, the project management method using 17 goals in these cities is analyzed, mainly from the viewpoint of profiling management. In the implementation of the SDGs, the importance of a comprehensive and integrated approach is stressed. This study also clarifies how these goals are interconnected with each other and utilized in platform management and index management.

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Nine years have passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but it is still difficult for residents to return to their homes in some municipalities. In addition, it takes 30 to 40 years to deal with the accident, which requires long-term efforts and decision-making across generations. In order to construct such a project for the reconstruction of Fukushima, co-creation project management by multigenerational and diverse actors is necessary. In this research, we analyze project continuity from the viewpoint of P2M, with the aim of realizing social innovation, which is a long-term strategy, through initiatives such as the Future Session at the Fukushima Study Group.

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This study examined the problems common to Socity 5.0 and regional activities, since Society 5.0 was included as one of the core policies in 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan in 2016. First, recent activities on SDGs are reviewed, Then, the information on potential members who are interested on SDGs through ”BURA NALC” designed to bridge the gap between academia and people, as outreach of the author’s research on collaboration between industry and universities. These activities and these relation to P2M, are reported.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. Primary of differences with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) until 2015 are to make various countries the subject in spite of an advanced and a developing country. When all sectors and stakeholders of the whole society should participate for a social problem solution. It's urgent action to develop it using P2M framework to solve this problem and the selection management of NPO’s environment activities. This new selection management is the tool which turns the society system of NPO.

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Toward realizing sustainable societies, our expectations to enterprises as executing subjects have been rising. As the enterprises' recognition of social issues changes from CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to CSV (Creating Shared Value), transforming their own business models are desired for enterprises. It is required that the enterprises recognize transforming their own business models as a transformation program and conduct appropriate program management for them. In this article, we discuss how business modeling & simulation technique can be applied into creative integrated management in business transformation program, and what advantages can be obtained.

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Lower productivity of Japan has been pointed out in an OECD investigation for many years. The topic of ”the black enterprise” giving problems such as harassment, long working hours, the low wage in the Japanese companies is actually reported frequently. The major reason of the late for organization development in Japanese companies is that managers couldn’t grasp the state of their company's organization objectively. Therefore, in this study, we developed a new organization diagnosis method to promote that Japanese companies worked on organization development. In the former article, we reported that we developed new organization diagnosis method in conformity with methodology of the systems engineering. In this article, we report that we enlarged the applicability of the developed organization diagnosis method in the plural business sections of the existing major accounting firm and we confirmed the method’s effectiveness.

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications pays attention to the ”cause related population” and has been implementing the ”Related Population Creation and Expansion Model Project” nationwide since FY2018. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has revised the curriculum guidelines, and the high school's “comprehensive exploration learning” will begin in 2022. In Gokase-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture, in FY2019, begun the related population creation model project, collaborating with students and graduates of the boarding school integrated junior and senior high schools, local NPOs, and local residents. Applying the P2M framework to this process, program it as a ”local value co-creation platform ”. In addition, through this project questionnaire surveys, measure the effects of capacity development by the activities, contributing to the SDGs, and promoting the understanding of the value of GIAHS.

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In recent years, facilitation has come to be used as a skill to support problem solving and consensus building in organizations. A facilitator is defined as a person who plays a role in supporting and promoting all kinds of knowledge creation activities as a group such as problem solving, idea creation, education, learning, etc. Are listed. On the one hand, the effectiveness of facilitators in organizations and projects has been discussed in P2M guidebooks and previous research, however on the other hand, the specific methods for fostering have not been sufficiently clarified. Therefore, as a pioneer in research on the evaluation axis that fosters facilitators, this research proposes a workshop that utilizes a failure experience pattern card to improve one of the four skills required for facilitation, “designing the place”. The effectiveness was confirmed.

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The rapid growth of information society has been changing people’s quality of life. Recently, observational research method used in cultural anthropology is being actively developed in the business field to reveal users’ potential issues and values. Related to this, in order to train the approach and skill necessary for value creation, field survey is also being adopted in university education, and universities and departments are searching for effective methods. In this paper, through a PBL of planning a new student apartment, 3 different patterns of instructions are conducted to enhance awareness of unbiased observing, which is an important approach in field survey. Then the effects on ideas and value creation are verified to present the effectiveness.

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In recent years, the security of universities has been regarded as a problem, and one of the causes is the low security awareness of students. Therefore, this study proposes a proposal to improve students' security awareness by using a nudge tool to improve students' security awareness. This is not to force students to take measures against information leaks, but to make them voluntarily take measures against information leaks by using a nudge approach. Furthermore, in this study, we took a questionnaire for two countermeasures against information leaks, one with and one without the nudge tool. As a result, it was found that more students take measures against information leaks by adapting the nudge tool. In the future, it is required to study whether the use of the nudge tool is effective against the problem of information leaks, which was not solved in this study.

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In recent years, an increasing number of companies have made their own efforts to improve ”internal communication,” which is important for employees to work well, and more and more companies are requiring communication skills from students who join the company. This is because the lack of communication between employees is often cited as an example when work efficiency is reduced or the project does not proceed smoothly. And one of the reasons for the lack of communication was that they had fewer opportunities to talk face-to-face, which accounted for a large proportion of the lack of communication. In this study, we focused on TRPG (Table Talk Role-playing Game) as a means to improve communication skills in face-to-face situations, and conducted a sand storage study on the specific means and effects of the game.

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Traditionally, conflicts were basically perceived as something bad in a project, something to be avoided. These days, however, conflicts are seen as inevitable and a natural consequence of change, and if managed well, can be beneficial to outcomes such as the generation of new ideas. On the other hand, in business, people still tend to avoid confrontation and conflict as a bad thing because they value human sensitivity, harmony and cooperation. This may have hindered the close coordination and coordination of opinions within the project. In this study, we propose a method to pseudo-conflict teams that tend to avoid conflicts and promote the formation of collaborative members. This is an attempt to organize collaborative members by pseudo-conflicting members who tend to avoid conflicts, which is hypothesized based on the double-interest model. As a result of an empirical experiment using ”pseudo-conflict” in this study, it was confirmed that it was possible to create conflicts even among members who tend to avoid conflicts, improving their ability to actively assert their own opinions and leading to cohesion among team members. In the future, it will be applied to actual short- and long-term projects, and the method of application will be explored. In addition, we will conduct demonstration experiments to collect more accurate data and keep accurate research results.

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