Currently, the need to promote micro-tourism trips in the Tama region is being discussed. This study conducted an implementation survey based on the case of Sanko Jidosha Corporation, which provides customizable travel and cab tailor-made tours in the Tama region. Based on the results of this survey, we propose a method to guarantee the quality of highly personalized services by following cab drivers through a photo submission application and a method to provide a new customer experience in historical buildings using an AR camera. These proposals will be developed as a single application and evaluated for emotional change and safety when offered to customers who actually use the service.

Visually impaired people have difficulty going shopping alone, but they wish to go shopping. When they go shopping alone, they have problems such as being unable to find products, colliding with shoppers and product shelves, and getting lost. There is a case of using ICT technology as previous research to support shopping for visually impaired people. These examples are not realistic because of the large scale and high cost of the equipment. Therefore, we investigated ways to easily create support tools at low cost. We analyzed the problems that occur when visually impaired people shop, and examined whether existing DX could solve these problems. In this paper, we propose a support system that enables visually impaired people to shop alone.

The lead-user method is often used in product development. This is a method in which development is conducted together with users called lead users. Because lead users are rare, there are many ways to search for them, but in this study, we focus on two types of users, positive and negative extreme users. We are concerned about the focus on only positive extreme users in existing research, and will compare positive and negative ones. The research method is to compare the subjects' idea through interviews with each extreme user against the lead user search time and idea innovativeness. Results will provide insight into companies' adoption of the lead user method.

University entrance exam candidates who study on their own in self-study rooms do more than just study. They feign solitary study, remain attentive to their surroundings, and take brief breaks while staying aware of their environment. Traditionally, these behaviors have been interpreted as a lack of concentration or simple breaks. In this study, I reframe these actions as forms of performance and demonstrate how adopting a performative approach facilitates self-study for those who are not fully engaged in the process. I have developed a conceptual framework to categorize the behaviors of university entrance exam candidates in self-study environments and have explored the reasons behind their preference for self-study rooms over studying at home.

Patents in pharmaceutical companies are the result of R&D investment, and can be regarded as one of the indicators that represent the results of exploratory research for the creation of new drugs, as well as reflect the company's strategy for the technological domain. Therefore, if patent documents are quantified, it is possible not only to objectively grasp the degree of concentration or expansion of technological fields, but also to make comparisons between companies. In this study, we attempted to visualize the transition of the technological domain of Japanese, European, and American pharmaceutical companies by quantifying the technology travel distance using vector expressions extracted from patent abstracts.

Live streaming has become an increasingly popular content throughout young generations on multiple platforms. Nevertheless, only a few studies have focused on user interaction on these platforms. This research aims to uncover what motivates live stream viewers to send comments during live streams, especially in the context of video game streaming.

last few years "the issue of old age 20 million yen shortage" becomes the topic, and the spotlight to a matter In conjunction with a fund and the long-term investment increases when old. I carry out the questionnaire for university students (including some graduate students) in this report and examine the consciousness to a fund and consciousness to the investment in conjunction with it in the old age of the university student by investigating presence of the consciousness for the finance investment mainly on the long-term investment, finance investment experience, the thought for the pension policy.

It is observed that a first mover consumer generated media (CGM) with many users and contents loses its competitive advantage due to the entry of latecomer. In this study, we focus on why contributors change CGM to post from the first mover to the newcomer. Because image quality and photographic technology are progressing, it can be considered that users may feel stale to existing contents of the first mover compared to the contents recently posted. We targeted the recipe website market and discussed the framework for analyzing the factors affecting the decision to choose a CGM to post.

In recent years, many local governments have been making efforts to make public services cashless. The government is also supporting the effort. In this report, we focus on two cities of similar size, Shizuoka City and Hamamatsu City. Taking up and analyzing examples of payments for public services, we will consider the challenges for local governments to promote cashless payment and the elements necessary for successful introduction.

In this study, was propose consumer analysis model applied QAQA(Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm) as a applied study for management science of quantum computing. It was defined the weight matrix and constraints in the proposal method, then there were applied as a proposal objective function to "Hamiltonian" that means solve the optimal solution at quantum computing. It becomes possible revealed redundant consumer activity process by proposal method. In the end, it was confirmed effectiveness of proposal method through evaluation experiment.

This study explores the potential expectations of parents on their children's usage of video games and participation in eSports. To accelerate the growth pace of eSports in Japan, it is critical to crack the parent's conservative perception and attitude toward video games in general and eSports in particular. This study conducts empirical analysis of the parent's perception and attitude towards eSports especially in the educational contexts through a large-scale quantitative survey. Key findings include the critical role of the parent's overall understanding of eSports and their active mediation to their children's game play on a daily basis.

In this study, in order to support manga providers, we conducted an Internet survey and analyzed the awareness of paper users and electronic users. Our findings showed that readers in their 20s to 40s tended to read electronic manga and that many of them did not have fixed occupations. In contrast, men in their 50s and 60s were more likely to read paper manga. Both groups indicated that they preferred to read paper manga when they wanted to keep them in their memory, and alternatively, that they preferred electronic manga when wanted to read something in their spare time.

This study focused on how the changes in the business environment associated with the advancement of information technology have affected the interaction between customers and firms, especially salesperson, and explored how this impact is reflected in customer's purchase decision factors. While we were able to verify that the traditional sales approach in adaptive selling is helpful in determining the adaptability of salesperson in terms of satisfying customer needs at a high level, we also found that in terms of purchase decision-making factors, the "time responsiveness" and "organizational business drive" to customers are also important.

Organizations are confronted with challenging decision-making processes in today's ambiguous society. This paper utilizes a web survey to examine whether the decision-making tendencies of an organization can be observed based on two factors: the size of the group and its lifetime. The results reveal that larger groups tend to prioritize immediate profits more readily, while longer lifetime groups are more prone to encountering difficulties in resolving issues, often leading to prolonged decision-making periods. Additionally, we discuss how to prevent decision failures.

Useful information that attracts voters to politics is needed for election coverage. In recent study, machine learning that output reasons for winning or losing election by combinations of explanatory variables was proposed. In this study, we validate the usefulness of such reasons from the voters' point of view by a conjoint experiment and a questionnaire survey. The result shows that such reasons can possibly help voters choose a candidate compared with existing election coverage keywords. The result also shows that unexpected reasons can attract voters' interestingness by showing those possibilities of winning the election in the past.

This paper describes in detail the design and implementation of a DAO suitable for academic activities through the case of Japan's first academic DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) recently launched by the Digital Human Resource Development Society. In addition, I will also describe the future vision (development of educational DAO) as an academic organization using DAO. Finally, we consider the "differences" in governance between real organizations (commercial enterprises, non-profit organizations) and DAO.

The concept of human capital management is increasingly capturing the interest of businesspeople for its potential to foster competitive advantages. In Japan, human capital management details need to be included in the annual financial report. However, the extraction of such information from the extensive array of reports is not easy. This study tries to retrieve this information from financial reports of the U.S. companies, where the disclosure of the information is already compulsory. In the experiment, we employed the BERT model and showed more than 70% accuracy. It is conceivable to attain greater accuracy levels with further refining the training data.

Anonymized personal information means information relating to an individual is masked so that specific individuals cannot be identified, and such personal information cannot be restored. By converting personal information to anonymized one, organizations can promote the utilization of personal data, including data transactions and data linkage among businesses, under certain rules and without the consent of the individuals. However, it is difficult to say that anonymized personal information is being utilized because it is unclear how much processing is required to meet the standards required by the law. In this study, we conduct a questionnaire survey of car owners to analyze the degree to which they are aware of the privacy issues concerning their anonymized personal information.

Effective disaster preparedness and response through self-help and mutual aid require ongoing development at the local level. Tama New Town aims to be a resilient community, capable of anticipating, withstanding, and recovering from disasters. In pursuit of this goal, Tama University and local residents (Renkoji and Hijirigaoka Community Welfare Promotion Committee) collaborated to conduct a disaster response simulation known as the "Crossroads Game." This paper seeks to assess the efficacy of the Crossroads Game in fostering a disaster-resilient community among local residents, utilizing a soft systems approach."

As Japan enters the hyper-ageing society, the need to address various population-related issues is a pressing concern. In particular, the increasing social security costs and labor shortages that will result from the hyper-ageing society with a declining birth rate will affect various industries that support the social infrastructure. To cope with such a situation, discussions on human capital management as a source of corporate competitiveness have been developed.

In this study, we first focus on young people, who will be the human capital of the future. And, after confirming the health awareness of young people, we discuss how to improve the health literacy of undergraduate students, who will be the members of society in the future, through a competition.

In recent years, many game-based learning programs have been introduced. In the field of business administration, many business games with sequential decision making, where each decision may change the player's environment and the decisions of other players, are difficult to reproduce the game history, making it difficult to conduct appropriate reflections.

In this study, we take "MG Online" as a game with sequential decision making and present the teaching materials developed to record its practice. We show that players themselves can reconfirm the rules and look back on the management strategies and decisions set up in advance by recording their own practices, and that teachers can also check the level of understanding of their students.

Generation Z (born between late 1990s and early 2010s) is considered to be more motivated to contribute to society and more enthusiastic about solving social issues such as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) than other generations before them. We conducted a survey on willingness to contribute to society by asking regional university students to select their WTP (willingness-to-pay) for the importance they attach to specific items of the SDGs. This study examines the factors that influence the level of willingness to contribute to society by comparing the results of the survey across faculties.

As the number of companies implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems increases, there are many papers on ERP education. In this paper, we introduce teaching material for implementing MRP (Material Requirement Planning) on IDES (Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System), an education and training system designed for learning the functions and processes of the ERP package "SAP ERP" provided by SAP SE. The feature of this material is that students execute MRP for their own products. To implement MRP, it is necessary to register key data such as items, BOM (Bill of Materials), work centers, and routings in IDES. Students will deepen their understanding of MRP and ERP systems through the registration of item masters and other data.

This paper approached to methodology for building of new business model by corporations. I proposes a method for designing, named “ Reverse Z method ". This model has four plate components : ①efficiency, ②effectiveness, ③customer and ④value. These plates are colliding during for each plate as well as plates tectonics of earth. This transfer vector is generated energy of alterations for new business. This study is supported about plate dynamics of new business designing.

This paper discusses the management of "slightly vulnerable person" who are able to work but have concerns about their relationships, mental and physical health, and other issues. A vicious cycle is formed in which strong person who "cling to successful patterns" perform management for strong person, and slightly vulnerable person who "try to adjust expectations excessively" try to adjust excessively to the management. And behind such strong person and slightly vulnerable person exists the abandonment anxiety. Therefore, in order to resolve the vicious cycle, a place that accepts these people's thoughts and feelings is considered important.

In this session, we will brief and share the active status of this area of “Digital Strategy and Architecture (AIDAF Framework)" among SIGs (Education, IS Leadership, DITE (Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship)) in Global AIS (Association for Information Systems), covering acceptance and holding the formal workshop in AMCIS and panel discussion in ICIS, leveraged with the AIDAF framework. In JASMIN in Japan, on a trial basis, we started up the “Special Interest Group for Digital Strategy and Architecture" last year. I hope that this session can help Japanese researchers and practitioners who take into considerations of positive activities in AIS conferences in each region.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the capabilities of the information system departments to drive the digital transformation (DX) in companies. Several empirical studies have pointed to the effectiveness of DX for competitive advantage. However, it is not clear what capabilities required for the information system departments to drive DX, and what impact those capabilities will have on driving DX and gaining competitive advantage. This study defines the capabilities required for the information system departments and designs the factor structure model that assumes the causal relationships between these competencies and the gaining of competitive advantage through the drive for DX.

Digital transformation (following as DX) projects have come to a standstill in many companies, and the lack of human resources is often cited as the cause. In this research, author will attempt to build a hypothesis regarding the requirements that the curriculum should have for the successful development of DX human resources. In this research, first, author will review the curriculum of the past sales personnel development consulting, and extract the factors that were particularly effective in it. Next, author compares these factors with the ability requirements required for DX promotion human resources, and present a hypothesis about the requirements that the training curriculum should have.

Every year, Japan Users Association of Information Systems conducts a large-scale survey of more than 1,000 companies and reports the results in its "Corporate IT Trends Survey Report. This report consists of more than 100 questionnaire items and comprehensively captures IT trends among Japanese companies. In this study, based on the "Corporate IT Trends Survey Report 2023," we present an analytical perspective to capture the characteristics of companies that are making progress in Digital Transformation from a large number of questionnaire items, and propose specific items for verification.

Digital BSC is a study that uses BSC to develop a digital transformation strategy、 but it does not incorporate the work of the MIT Sloan teams that we have been studying. Also、 while an ambidextrous managerial approach is required、 the digital BSC focuses only on digital strategy. Therefore、 we decided to attempt to incorporate into the BSC the 5 Building Blocks and The New Elements of Digital Transformation、 frameworks for promoting digital transfoIn this paper、 we would like to use this modernized BSC as an important guideline for effective digital transformation strategy planning.

In today's society, it is never easy to obtain the information one is looking for. Job hunting is a particularly challenging situation in which one finds it difficult to gather information. Preliminary survey results suggest that there is demand for tools that facilitate information gathering, a way to smoothly exchange information with friends, and a memo application that can be used for job hunting. Therefore, this study proposes a memo application specialized for job hunting, where information can be obtained from friends. We will then have test subjects use the application to verify whether it is easy to use, and make further improvements to increase satisfaction of job-hunting students.

he scope of application, development management, and operation management of systems subject to system audits are diversifying. While the importance of system auditing has increased along with the development of information systems, it is also true that there are few cases and data that allow us to realize the effective application of system auditing in companies. What kind of expectations do management expect from system audits in the period of business transformation, and what kind of results are they looking for? We will consider the issues and directions contained in the gap between expectations and reality. It is my hope that the results of this research will be useful in promoting system auditing as well as in fulfilling the function of system auditing in companies.

In this paper, we explain a case of structuring BOM which is information to obtain enterprise value in digital society. In this case, we did 3 methods, (1) structured BOM for general purpose motor (2) promoted to use BOM (3) simplified check work of altered point in BOM and consequently we success to struct BOM on Mitsubishi Electric's motor business.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the causal relationships of the driving factors of digital transformation (DX). To explore the causal relationships, we analyzed survey data using LiNGAM. As a result of the analysis, it was found that organizational factors (psychological safety) and strategic factors (strategic intent) affect the outcome of DX through exploration. In addition, it was shown that organizational factors precede strategic factors.

Information dissemination has an important role as a marketing promotion. In addition, in the "100-year life period", seniors are important as the new players in the entrepreneurship. The author defined "lifelong start-up" that utilizes the experience of seniors, even if they do not earn money, in what they are good at and what is needed in the world. The author started a business as a senior and practically analyzed the reduction of "start-up barriers." As a result, the author practically obtained know-how on how to utilize grants, networking, exhibitions, conference presentations, etc. for information dissemination. I hope to promote start-up among seniors.

Synergy effects are increasing in importance in the evolution of platform ecosystems. This study focuses on the influence of platform synergy effects on consumer perceived value, analyzing 405 smart home products collected from Amazon.co.jp. The results show that for synergy with the platform, “device interoperability" and “multifunctionality" positively affect the number of reviews, while “product control interoperability" positively affects product ratings. On the other hand, for synergy with complements, “product connectivity" positively affects the number of reviews. This study suggests the importance of achieving synergy effects with the platform ecosystem and emphasizing synergy in product development.

ChatGPT utilization has become a hot topic. And as we understand and adapt to ChatGPT, is ChatGPT's main impact human substitution (automation)? Or is the main impact human enhancement (with AI assistance)? And how are these boundaries determined? Answers to such questions are expected. Generative AI is currently under development and it is not appropriate to make a quick decision. However, it is time to have a certain way of thinking about these questions. There is also a concern that if you are preoccupied with using ChatGPT, you may get an unexpected backlash. Based on this recognition of the problem, I will consider and report on the boundary model between humans and machines, the scenario when change occurs, and the relationship with human creativity.

In this paper, we consider effectiveness of KPIs or KGIs for local governments such as population increase rate, birth rate or amount of donation to hometown municipality induced by tax exemption and return of local gifts and then we propose new KPIs or KGIs for local governments and consider the role of information system to contribute those new KPIs or KGIs.

Since 2020 the world has got coronavirus pandemic to restrict moving also agri economy. Then price gaining and military affairs going through trade confusion for now. Our domestic clash however did seldom harm some prefectures' local food independence itself. Besides national farming bases less the local would be appreciated in food security at their able citizenship. Cities could slightly hear their proper actions but could confirm among social sciences general notions and norms bearing civilization.

In Gifu Prefecture, regional informatization promotion policies have been implemented for more than a quarter of a century, Softopia Japan Foundation (hereinafter, the foundation) is an industrial support organization that plays a core function. In recent years, we have aimed to creat our way of accompanying type DX support. This model has great features such as the foundation staff demonstrating their autonomy and expertise, and local IT vendors joining as team members and promoting local production and consumption of DX. Through the activities, success patterns are being established and leading to higher quality support. However, there are also challenges to reproducibility and continuity.

Agile development is typically implemented under a quasi-delegation contract. Despite this, its application remains sparse within Japanese government agencies, and the processes that should be implemented throughout the development journey are unclear. Therefore, this study clarifies the processes that are generally considered necessary when the government conducts agile development under a quasi-delegation contract, and then confirms the extent to which the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's agile development project in FY2022 practiced these identified processes. The findings aim to elucidate the necessary and feasible processes when government agencies conduct agile development under a quasi-delegation contract.

This study examines the cyclical logic and business model framework (business model canvas) based on which both forecasting accuracy and platform value increase as both the scale and scope of data increase for firms that utilize the computational power of artificial intelligence (AI) as a core business function or mainstream product or service (AI platform firms). AI platform firms, or those aspiring to become AI platform firms, can examine the direction of business development and business performance growth in collaboration with themselves and others by approaching from a business model framework specific to AI platform firms.

This paper examines whether top U.S. digital content platforms like Netflix, Max, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video have utilized the "Blue Ocean Strategy" for success and if these strategies can be applied in the Japanese market. Using publicly available data, the study reveals how each platform differentiates itself, offering unique value to consumers. Strategies like initial member acquisition, original content development, and reducing subscription barriers are considered effective for market penetration and growth in Japan.

First, we investigate defects of Business Model Canvas. We divide business models into three perspectives. And, we propose the way to construct business model from the combination of elements of each perspective, in order to create the optimum business model efficiently. To examine and construct business model for DX (Digital Transformation), we consider long- or medium-term management plan in grand design phase of DX. Then, we propose Business Model Accomplishment Diagram that describes the causal relationship between the elements of business model and can explain the reason for business model success. We release our framework under Creative Commons license.

To some extent, the food delivery market is growing rapidly in recent years because of the COVID-19. Its service quality also attracted attention. In this study, based on the SERVQUAL model, a questionnaire was designed with reference to the OFD-SERV model presented based on the characteristics of food delivery services. The questionnaire was administered to students of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and improvement measures were considered to increase customer loyalty, which is the aim of the focus on customer satisfaction. Then, the factors affecting customer satisfaction are narrowed down to eight items and a food delivery service quality scoring formula using factor analysis is calculated. This made it possible to numerically evaluate whether service quality was good or bad.

Product sales in supermarkets are affected by a variety of external factors. One of the key insights in marketing is to infer the impact of these external factors from sales information and to determine the sensitivity to various factors. In this study, based on food sales data in supermarkets over a five-year period from 2018, we attempted to classify products by the degree of influence of external factors such as COVID-19 by using STL decomposition to isolate seasonal variations and residual components and clustering these components. The results shows that there are some products that were significantly affected by external factors. These product-specific characteristics can be expected to provide useful information for future marketing and sales strategies.

Recently, infectious diseases and conflicts have affected our lives. There is a lot of reports of changes in customer purchasing behavior and lifestyle behavior due to COVID-19. However, if we can view that as a critical social event and clarify the relationship between behavior such as the movement of people and posting on SNS and changes in purchasing behavior, it will be possible to predict the effects of similar events in the future. In this study, we focus on alternative data, which are thought to be leading factors, and build a model to estimate the degree of change. From the constructed model, we show that explanatory factors related to Google Trends values and people's movements change purchasing behavior.

Domestic commercial real estate is affected by deflation and COVID-19, but the price index has been increasing. If the demand cannot be met by its supply, business chance is lost. So, it is necessary to grasp the increase in demand as early as possible. In this study, a multiple regression model is constructed to predict the amount of demand in the Kinki area collected by a real estate-related company. In addition, by clustering these stocks based on the similarity of their transaction status and constructing a taxonomy of keywords common to each cluster, we can clarify what kind of business trends affect the demand.

Local governments are facing challenges like reduced staff numbers and budget constraints, all while the workload increases and becomes more complex. Amidst this, there's a growing trend to utilize generative AI. Generative AI, already proven in advanced municipalities due to its ability to work with Japanese, early usability, and cost-effectiveness, has been experimented with, and results disclosed. This article investigates efforts towards utilizing generative AI by local governments as of August 2023 and looks ahead to the future.

Generative AI is a field of machine learning that generates new data based on learned datasets, and its capabilities are rapidly advancing. High-performance generative AIs have emerged in various fields, such as text and image generation. With the ability for anyone to easily utilize generative AI, the potential for business efficiency improvements using generative AI has expanded. In this report, we introduce pioneering examples from two small and medium-sized enterprises that are actively leveraging generative AI and discuss the importance of its application in small and medium-sized businesses.