The purpose of this study is to clarify the effect of organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) and knowledge sharing (KS) motivation on KS behavior. Data were gathered by using questionnaires from 500 employees working in various business organizations and a causal model was analyzed using the data. The results show that; 1) “trustworthy relationships and free atmosphere in an organization,” and “individual true self-esteem and contingent self-esteem” enhance OBSE, 2) OBSE enhances intrinsic KS motivation, 3) intrinsic KS motivation enhances KS behavior, 4) trustworthy relationships enhances intrinsic KS motivation and KS behavior directly, 5) true self-esteem enhances KS behavior directly, 6) contingent self-esteem enhances extrinsic KS motivation, 7) extrinsic KS motivation inhibits KS behavior.

The term Cloud has been around for quite some time in corporate IT. However, there are still few companies which have incorporated the Cloud in their systems. We have conducted empirical analysis employing corporate data to examine the following: What are the obstacles to the Cloud’s introduction? Although the Cloud brings with it various benefits, how does the Cloud’s introduction format differ based on user expectations? Analysis results indicated that lack of understanding regarding the Cloud’s benefits were a hindrance to its introduction. In addition, it was also discovered that user expectations for information sharing and management reform were a driving force behind the introduction of the Cloud. By company size also introduced factors that confirmed.

COBIT5 published by ISACA is a global framework that can be a reference for IT-enabled Business Change. In 2012, COBIT5 was revised from COBIT4.1 in order to manage IT as a part of creation of Business Value. The purpose of this research is to develop a method of IT-enabled Business Change by the enhancement of the Enablers in COBIT5. By the survey of Japanese companies, this research demonstrated this method can be applied to Business Change in many companies.

As a conclusion, this research made a model as follows. ‘Emergent Change and planed Change of Value Chain create Result of Change, and the enablers of these Changes are Human System (such as Shared Value, Organization, People, Process) and Information System (IT). Information System accelerates preparation of Human System. Business strategy influences these Changes by accelerating preparation of Human System and Information System.’