Coevolutionary Project Management Promoting Interaction between Social System and Information Systems
Project Outline
Aiming to optimize road transportation on city scale, planning and investigations will be conducted in management of social experiment projects in which social systems and information systems underlying as a part of social infrastructures interact.
They say Japan has some weak fields in research and development of information systems underlying social infrastructures; as the saying goes, "Japanese enterprises win by technology, but lose by business." Looking back at ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) activities, the weakness relates to the field to create new frameworks and new services that will involve transformations in society and behavior of people, as well as changes in the sense of values. How we can overcome the weakness of ITS would depend on how development of the two systems, i.e., social system (people) and information system, should be handled under the concept of coevolution. Additionally, what we are in need of is the body of knowledge (BoK) that will include the two system development methodologies. We will aim to build up a methodology of social project management from the standpoint of interactions of the two systems, namely, the process of coevolution (social experiment phase) and its chronological process path that will extend the well-known project management body of knowledge (PMBoK) and pursuing a small-sized social experiment for an actual measure or implementation. As a result, we can expect promotion of the coevolution of the two systems by enabling stakeholders of project to appropriately share the understanding of positioning and state of processes (social experiment).
Following a current research phase of project planning and investigations, in order to implement research and development projects for coevolution-type social experiment project management of social systems and information systems , it is necessary to build and improve:
• Concept of coevolution-type social experiment project management
• Social system objects to be observed
• Information system objects to be observed
• Settings of (temporary) metrics of social experiments and means of observation
• Studies of the relevance of metrics
In this planning and investigation, we will improve the above and organize a framework necessary for research and development activities by taking the initiative to introduce a digital infrastructure of road transportation or a road-traffic dynamic map) that will become the social infrastructure to optimize city-scale road transportation into Toyota City as an example.
Investigators
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Shigeharu Teshima (Principal Investigator) |
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University |
Designated Professor |
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Sachiko Ono |
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University |
Designated Assistant Professor |
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Minao Kukita |
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University |
Associate Professor |
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Tomoya Shimizu |
Model Environment City Promotion Division, Planning Department, Toyota City |
Chief |
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Hiroaki Takada |
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University |
Professor |
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Yosuke Watanabe |
Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University |
Designated Associate Professor |
Participating and Cooperating Organizations
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• Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University *: Center of Innovation Science and Technology-based Radical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program (COI STREAM) [MEXT program] |