Getting rid of turf-minded and sub-optimized society, there's been blossoming of important projects to establish social infrastructure for the next generation toward the realization of total optimization. Such projects face a lot of specific issues to the Social Project, like longstanding management, difficulty of consensus building effort among various stakeholders, and the way of subsidizing the expense. In this report, we present the concept of Social Project Management that enables managing projects targeting the whole society as a scope, and describe its main characteristic and conformation. In addition, we describe the necessity for introduction of Social Project Management based on the case study of developing the social information system for central government bureaucrat.

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Social projects are characterized by, for example, various stakeholders, complicated and ambiguous scope or value. We have participated in various social projects. In this report, we study the characteristics and the measures of social project management, with a case study in the field of urban and rural management. We also study from a viewpoint of "new public management".

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We have never been able to enjoy a present high quality of life without any information system constructed in the various industries and public fields. According to improving and deeply deploying an information system into our life, many communities which utilize the information technologies have been inaugurated. And they have made efforts to contribute to solve problems in the local societies. On the situation of movement of the activities for constructing the social information systems from an e-Government to a Local-Government, a community that has some kind of relation with a local government is expected to be in charge of role proposing a solution related to issues and executing it. However leaders of communities have pointed out that it is quite difficult to start a community and carry on it continuously. As one of the methods for solving problems, the project management skills may be useful in starting and operating the local communities. We are trying to newly define the project management body of knowledge for a local community through the discussion of studying the social project management. This report describes the analysis of the instances presented in the conference on community network study group symposium held on 3^<rd> March, 2004 sponsored by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

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IT-izing of the healthcare field is indispensable to development of the healthcare treatment of future our country. Especially, in carrying out the "inter-regional association type electronic health records development project" which is the social information system of the healthcare field expected, the project management which did not aim at the suboptimization for every stakeholder, but aimed at the optimization between whole stakeholders, such as a patient, a healthprovider, and a governmental agency, will be required from now on. It boils and the development project of a medical network is considered about development of the social information system of the healthcare field for an example.

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In IT system development, it is well understood how the quality of the work products ("requirements definition document") of requirements definition phase greatly affect the work of successor phases of the work. Therefore, in systemizing completely new operation and large-scale business development, at times the method of reestimating the development scale after an external design phase may be taken. But, if the process of this requirements definition phase is not carried out precisely, it will result in lowering the quality and credibility of the work products and misleading the process of phase afterwards. Recently, there are some case of problems occurring among middle scale requirements definition phase in IT system development. In order to guarantee the quality of a requirements definition phase for the problem generated in these cases to a key, it considers what should be carried out as PM.

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Organization Innovation has been carried out in many companies in recent years. Many Companies study organizations which are considered to be ideal organizations at the time in general. And they want to build an organization in the ideal organizations as soon as possible. However, we should build an organization suitable for the characteristics of each business which a company has. In this paper, through a case study of Organization Innovation in an outsourcing company (outsourcer) of IT, one application example of Organization Innovation using Business Portfolio Matrix (BPM) and Knowledge Management is stated.

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When we run a project, we need to make efforts to concert each member's knowledge, creativity and originality, exert organizational strength as a team, encourage skill development so as to achieve a successful project. This paper focuses on our approach to implementing autonomous project teams. In this paper, we explain how to extract individual capabilities and achieve strengthening organizational capacity. In addition, we study project member's change of consciousness during the implementation.

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