Professor Hiroaki Wakuta, former president of Japan Society for the Study of Office Automation, contributed greatly to founding the JSSOA (currently, Japan Society of Information and Management, JSIM). He has published more than forty papers in the Journal of JSSOA; his papers cover a broad range of topics such as OA theory, management theory, and management education. This study surveys his major papers to review his theoretical framework and original ideas that are based on the system theory. He always had an interest in the relationship between subsystems and between subsystems and the whole system. Current researchers still have a lot to learn from his active attitude toward research.

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In the 2000s, research on information practices became more and more prosperous, but on the other hand, it is often said that education on information practices in undergraduate and graduate schools began to decline. This essay examines whether such an understanding of the current situation is valid. Furthermore, using the design science research model as a framework and guidelines, we will clarify that it is very effective for establishing information practice research as one applied or academic discipline.

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The Journal of Information and Management (JIM) has been compiled around a special featured theme since the first issue. The purpose of this article is to determine the usage of JIM based on the access statistics data of J-Stage, a paper database service provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). To this end, this article analyzed the number of papers published in JIM that were downloaded between June 2018 and April 2020. The results showed that (1) there were about 50,000 hits during that period, and (2)there was a continued interest in JIM even after some time had passed since its publication. It was also found that JIM was accessed from all over the world, especially from the United States, China, and Korea, indicating that JIM is an academic journal attracting much attention.

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This paper traces the transition of organizational strategy by taking a major electric information and communication company (Hitachi, Ltd.) in the “post-Chandrian economy” (PCE) era as an example. We will consider organizational strategies and strategic areas as the emergence of new business models through intercompany networks (Platform strategy in Phase 1) and digitization for the realization of a super-smart society (Platform strategy in Phase 2).

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This paper discusses a research direction that can lead information-and-management research as an academic discipline. Our study is based on two ideas: (1) researchers need to share meanings of a set of basic terms in order to accumulate academic knowledge and (2) with mobile devices and rich web content available, the world has changed from the traditional one into the mixed world which is a mixture of the real world and the cyber world consisting of images perceived from the web content by each individual and/or business. Necessity of a dictionary of basic terms is insisted on, then four research areas are listed and briefly commented.

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Society 5.0 is defined as a human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a cyber-physical system. In a cyber-physical system, the cyber system can be regarded as a digital twin, because it behaves exactly as the corresponding physical system in IoT environment. From the standpoints of data collection and simulation

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In recent years, the concept of digital transformation (DX) has been attracting attention. However, the discussion of ICT-based transformation is not so new. Its origins can be traced back to the 1990s. In this paper, we review how information systems research has approached the subject of “ICT and organizational transformation,” which has a history of more than a quarter of a century. As a result, the discussion of DX has revealed (1) the importance of its social and material aspects (the im-portance of socio materiality) rather than the traditional functional aspects of ICTs, and (2) the importance of the transformation of the field gaze and humble leadership in discussing transfor-mations including changes in the organizing principles of work and organizational values. From these characteristics, it can be said that the digital transformation calls for the transformation of information systems research itself (the establishment of new research objects and new method-ologies).

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The information sharing system “COVIMARU” for accommodation facilities for COVID infectious diseases was developed by a volunteer organization centered on university faculty members. The volunteer organization did not include software development experts, but was able to develop quickly and at low cost. In this paper, we examine the success factors of this case. It is noteworthy that “COVIMARU” made good use of the GIS-based platform from the userʼs point of view and did not have to develop its own software from scratch. This case provides suggestions for a new EUC paradigm.

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This paper provides an overview of the disruptions associated with distance education from the perspective of faculty telework, and discusses the relationship between telework and information management in the field of university education. First, I confirm the social background used for the recent introduction of telework. Next, we describe the situation in the field of universities, where telework has been relatively widespread, not in terms of institutions but in terms of operations, and how COVID-19 has triggered the shift to telework in educational operations. Finally, as a person in the organization, I will discuss the knowledge fed back from the efforts in the field, as well as the part that the perspective of “office automation,” which is the name of the predecessor of this society, has in common with the introduction of telework in modern companies.

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In December 2019, There is a first patient with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Then a global pandemic happened. We have to try to prevent the spread on infection of COVID-19, We will learn on remote learning in universities too. How change the education from conventional education in university? Especially how has seminar education changed? We study through comparison of some LMSs and we report the activities of the seminar class.

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Since the spread of COVID-19, Many universities are engaged in remote learning using information technology. However, there are a lot of problems and complaints with current remote learning. In order to solve problems and complaints, it is necessary to share and discuss various remote leaning and methods. Then, in this paper, we will report on a class using Moodle. Remote learning using Moodle are useful for measuring students learning behavior. However, the need for communication with students has increased significantly.

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As a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, online lectures at universities were conducted as an emergency evacuation. However, it is difficult to say that this measure was implemented after sufficient discussions were accumulated. If it is to be continued in the future, it is necessary to look back and verify the results. In this paper, the challenges and future possibilities of online lectures are discussed based on the experiences of the university-wide efforts at Hiroshima University of Economics, where the author works, and the case studies of online classes conducted by the author. As a result, it became clear that while online classes have the merit of reducing commuting time and increasing review time through repeated viewing of videos and materials, they also have the problem of overloading students with assignments such as reports and quizzes. In order to avoid this problem, it is necessary to prepare a learning environment that is close to the students, keeping in mind the actual living conditions of the students, and keeping in mind that the studentsʼ lives are the same as when they are face-to-face. In addition, it is necessary for teachers to communicate with students.

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