This paper attempts to address our project toward higher management by the integration of intelligence. There are a few pilot plans for our “Oukan” project beginning at 2010. This industryuniversity cooperation would produce the innovative/effectivemanagement simulator/planner for enterprise managers in the near future.

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A series of forums were held for discussing approaches to scientificmanagement from different scientific viewpoints as accounting, risk management, strategic cost manegement and administration engineering by TRAFST. The author summarizes issues of the forums which are regarded as essential and necessary conditions to attain more sophisticated and scientific decision making in organizational management.

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The aim of this paper is to find out how to develop Performance Evaluation System in Balanced Scorecard(BSC). Performance Evaluation System consists of two meanings which are to evaluate a performance of business units and to measure a performance of business unitmanagers. On the other hand, BSC is an important function of the performance evaluation and the implementation of strategy. Then, we describe new performance evaluation system based on strategy in BSC. In this paper, especially we introduce the performance evaluation system in Richo of the first company which is adopted BSC in Japan. And we discuss some demerits of Richo’s performance evaluation system.

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The stakeholders of IT management of companies include not only the demand side (IT user companies) but also the supply side (IT vendor companies). We conducted five studies over ten years researching IT management effectiveness and software engineering excellence from the viewpoint of both the demand side and the supply side. In this paper, we summarize the results of our research, including causal relationships related to management behavior, operations and business performance. Also, we consider science for society in a future-oriented manner in order to sublate the results of social research towards society’s intellectual caliber.

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a fundamental concept of the Service Productivity Simulator. In Japanese service industries, some high-performance organizations already have practiced the Service Target Costing (Fig. 3), which is a new Japanese management accounting practice for design and development of successful services. However, they need CAD for services and a new technology for scientific simulation about the future service performances such as productivity and profitability. In this paper, we try to argue a fundamental concept of the simulator with resource-usage view (Figs. 1 & 2), through building a conceptual model of typical service unit (Fig. 4).

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It is reported that the next science and technology basic plan for FY2011-2015 will emphasize the problem solving as a fundamental role of science and technology. Our Federation certainly welcome this attitude of the government because the transdisciplinary science and technology has basically been developed for problem solving. However, there are several critical issues that have to be carefully considered if the problem solving is taken as the national mission of science and technology. We have decided to officially declare our opinions about the next basic plan. The opinions are discussed and summarized by the key members inside the council and finally approved by all the member societies. The final form has been conveyed to the Council for Science and Technology Policy which is responsible for setting up the basic plan. This article explains the background of our opinions, mixed with the individual opinions of the author.

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The methodology of quality evaluation and improvement by Dr. Genichi Taguchi was systematized as “quality engineering” in the 1970’s, and the value and effectiveness came to be recognized in a lot of technical fields as a concrete and efficient methodology of product development and technological development. Then, “Quality Engineering Forum” was established to unify information in various fields to spread and promote quality engineering further in March, 1993. Afterwards, the name was changed into “Robust Quality Engineering Society (RQES)” in 1998. The 15th anniversary of this society was cerebrated in 2007. The society performs businesses such as publication of the journal and holding annual conference. The number of members is 2350 or more at the end of March in 2009. It is one of our society’s features that the number of enterprise members is far more than that of school officials unlike other academic societies. Moreover, we have no branches. Instead, local societies of quality engineering have been organized and spread to local companies. Currently, 23 local societies are active.

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This brief essay introduces outline of Japan Association of Simulation & Gaming (JASAG) which was established 21st January 1989 and was reinstated academic society of the Science Council of Japan until its reforming. JASAG is a member of academic societies in Oukan, Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology and has been re-formed just from an academic society into a non-profit organization authorized by the government of Japan in 2009. JASAG has been an important regional member society of International Association of Simulation & Gaming (ISAGA) since 1989. More than one-third of the members belong to social science and art fields including communication, education and language studies, and that is the reason why JASAG is one of the biggest organizations of an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cybernetics group in Japan.

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