The rapid digitisation of the society has been dramatically changing the nature of the relationship between our society and IT, as well as man and IT, thus the frontiers of our researches. How can JASMIN perform its mission to enhance the topic of this special issue: ‘man-machine synergisation’? One of the ways to arrive at an answer to this question is to know what research topics are prioritised in the Society as a whole. In this article, we identify research topics regarded as important in the coming five years by the Society leaders, through simplified Delphi method (staged voting method with feedbacks). Then we evaluate the result and compare it with the one from the similar survey at AIS (Association for Information Systems). Research strategies for researchers and for the Society are discussed based on the evaluation and the comparison. Discussions on the differences and similarities conclude the article.

Well-being is a concept that includes not only physical and mental health but social relationship. Previous researches clarified methods for well-being improvement and its benefits such as higher productivity. However, research examples for well-being in workplace are few. In particular, empirical researches for influence on well-being from flexible choice of workspace led by ICT are not yet sufficiently accumulated. This research empirically verified by experience sampling that “abundancy of alternatives of workspace” as an environmental factor and “flexibility of workspace” or “frequency of gratitude” as human factors influence on personal “well-being” in the workplace. As a result, it become clarified that more flexibility of workspace and more frequency of gratitude (human factors) result in higher well-being of the individual. In addition, although abundance of alternatives of workspace (environmental factors) did not directly lead higher well-being, the abundance influenced to flexibility of workspace. Moreover, it is suggested that flexibility of workspace may relate to the diversity of opportunities to recall well-being.

It is thought that creating social innovation is the key to success a social business. The creation of the social innovation has been captured in collaboration with other organization and entrepreneurship. Therefore, our study tried to obtain practical knowledge about the role of ICT in social innovation by grasping social business from a business process perspective. It picks up two cases of the social business applied ICT. And it uses process innovation creation model of Davenport, analyzes by DEMO modeling and the interview. The results show that the roles of ICT in social innovation are four factors: 1) executor shift, 2) automation, 3) data sharing, and 4) acquisition of outside resources.

To solve the social problems adopted by the United Nations as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, it is urgent to develop the reference architecture and assessment model for implementing the sustainable smart cities, which maintain and improve Human Well-being by use of information technologies. Assessment index that measure and assess quality of human life (i.e., Human Well-being) in cities, needs to be compatible with the individual index which is international standard such as ISO 37120 (Indicators for city services and quality of life) and ISO TS 37151 (Performance metrics for smart community infrastructures), and the integrated index such as Inclusive Wealth Index which is a structured indicator system to carry out integrated evaluation in the three aspects of economic, social, environment. In this paper, we have reviewed trends of domestic and international development concerning smart cities’ assessment index and implementation models, and considered a method of implementation (i.e., reference architecture and assessment) for sustainable development on the smart cities that is compatible with smart cities’ happiness index and sustainability index, using the Productive base to simultaneously solve economic, social and environmental challenges. In addition, we have studied a use case of the Nakanojo Power pilot project and we have shown the reference architecture and assessment model is valid, that is for implementing the sustainable smart cities with Creating Shared Value of human beings, information technologies and industrial firms.