IT PHILOSOPHY of IT4VIEWS :The ancient Greece philosophy

□The ancient Greece philosophy
In the ancient Greece times, it says that the concept of atom with the becoming of the basics on the present science and the metaphysics which become the source of the present-day philosophy were already systematized.
The giants of the Greek philosophy which is wonderful with about 5 centuries of B.C. such as Demokritos and Socrates who explained ignorant philosophy who advocated atomism, Platon to have advocated the theory of the State, Aristotle who is called the greatest philosopher in the more ancient world exchanged a lively debate mainly in Athenai.
The tutor of the Great Alexander who accomplished the world conquest to the short time and produced the Hellenistic culture was to do Aristotle being which was the son of the physician to the emperor of the Macedonia king.
It is said to that Pythagoras which discovered a various theorem about the mathematics was a great philosopher and that it was an excellent music student, too, too.
In these times, Euclidean geometry is born.
In the ancient Greece times, the element which composes space was recognized to have been four of the fire, earth, water, air.
There was a philosopher who explained that the space was a sphere and that it was expanding, too.
The thing that the universe expansion opinion is right is proved by the observation result in the galaxy which reaches in astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble's 10, too.
By the Doppler effect, as for the space, the galaxy which is farther from the earth it is, discovered the fact to be expanding was from the observational data to emit red light and to give off blue light as much as the galaxy which is nearer the earth.
The Big Bang is the beginning of the space birth but it is possible to have sung to do Greek philosophy person Herakleitos being when the beginning at the space was a fireball of it.
As for philosopher Thales, the earth is the owner of the idea who should be surprised who had the excellent idea which matches the theory of plate tectonics to have advocated and for Alfred Wegener to have proposed when floating on water.
It says that the ability to see through the essence declines about the neoteric but it is Kazunori that reads the introduction of the ancient Greece philosophy to polish susceptibility and to make a head clear.
The ancient Greece philosophy gives off the negative ion which is wonderful in today, too, as the spring of the intellect.
□IT philosophy called IT4VIEWS
Apply the idea of the ancient Greece philosophy to IT and let's attempt to explore the atom of IT philosophy. I call this "IT4VIEWS".
To exhaust the power which IT keeps, it is important to attempt to consider essence with IT itself, information itself and to go back more slowly and carefully.
The power of IT can make show by pursuing to ascertain the essence of the information and how to control information and moreover whether or not to embody a system according to the latent ability.
Here, let's attempt to take information as the object .
When thinking of the essence of the information which it should control in the viewpoint which consists of four of the speeds, the quality, the costs, the interfaces, the feature which is necessary because of the power show by each element becomes clear.
When attempting for IT to be embodied, when taking the essence of this information fast, the tool of the business management technique and IT solution for the becoming information-oriented, the option of the technology will be able to be seen as the image.
The speed:
･ The synchronization: It is possible for more than one business processing to synchronize.
･ The realtime feature: It is realtime and it is possible to process business.
Let's attempt to think of the place where the speed means.
It is required that it achieves the improvement of the speed such as the business processing, the data processing in the becoming information-oriented.
Operation system can process more than one business processing, it piece of data processing at the same time.
Moreover, the real-time processing, too, can be realized.
The management technique which relates to the speed is SCM, TOC.
In SCM, the value chain which aimed at the total-optimization is pursued and lead time abridgment's improvement of the cash flow about the business activity and quick compatible to the customer needs become a target.
SCM can be called the indispensable management technique to proceed with the speed management and the cash flow management in the viewpoint of the total-optimization by the cooperation out of the in-house.
The quality:
･ The accumulation evolution feature: The accumulation of the information evolves contents.
･ The freshness maintenance feature: The updating function which prevents the obsolescence of the information
･ The unification feature: Let's attempt to think about the quality about the information.
The environment changes with the change of the time and the information which was accumulated by the data base through a wide range of channels becomes outdated.
Therefore, the function that information is continuously updated in some timing so as not for the accumulated information to become outdated is required.
The knowledge, the know-how that the information is various, at first, an inhering original meaning, the meaning, the value which is new with the value are added and the contents of the information evolve as the knowledge, the know-how.
It says that the information advances and that the quality level of the information rises when the technique of so-called knowledge management is based on the accumulation evolution feature of this information and does a way of doing catching, the quality of the information.
It is about to be possible to practice high quality knowledge management how or the intellectual motive power to attempt differentiation with the rival is about to resemble.
In the unification feature of the information, it is required that it manages the information which is interspersed, unifying a code scheme .
To manage a data warehouse intensively at one and to unify a use language, an OS application software and so on to one kind become a point.
The cost:
･ The reducing feature: The various cost reductions which are due to the becoming information-oriented
･ The accounting-feature: The use cost by the utilization of the information
It is required that the attempt management innovation can be attempted and that it realizes the reduction of the various costs in the reduction of the inventory, the abridgment of the lead time by proceeding with the becoming information-oriented in the viewpoint with cost.
But, it utilizes an information system and because it manages the operation, the use cost, the operation strike occur.
As for being related by the viewpoint with cost, the concurrent engineering which aimed at all cost cutting by the concurrent cooperation activity of the gate is almost given.
ABC/ABM grasps the cost according to the actual state and is applied to for the careful cost analyses by it.
The out-sourcing can be called the trump of the shift to making a fixed cost variable cost.
The interface:
･ The sharing feature: The sharing of the information
･ The network-function: The function to exceed time, space
Let's attempt to think about the viewpoint of the interface.
As for the communication which the person intervenes between, through the information, the communication of the value and recognition are done.
In the conversation, a wide range of topics lift, it comprehends information in the interactive and in the mutual parties who have a conversation, to be provided will be an everyday experience from the partner in the new information, the sense of values.
If catching parties with the 1 corner type in this meaning, the level of the additional value in the one which becomes an object in it changes.
It is replaced by the words such as to color.
As a result, the parties start a specific decision making and an action.
It is possible to say that the information has an interface feature by this meaning because it has the role that it is possible to put a party in the interactive actively in the flitting type of the information.
In the Internet age, at globally the global dimension, the circulation of the information and sharing are promoted.
It is the data warehouse, the mobile computing, the extranet, PDM, e that are related to the interface It is a market place.
These provide cyberspace as the interface feature to accumulate by and for it to release information from the agreement of the distance and the time.
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☆ 4 corner viewpoint（：IT４VIEWS） at the　IT project evaluation ☆

The success or failure of the project is decided by the evaluation of the participating interested parties.
It is the interested parties who are a user that evaluate the output of the project objectively.
The company related department, the outside the company customer, the related enterprise and so on concern interested parties.
The project fails if the output of the project becomes a management effect and the project leader and the project member don't appear hang in there, too, to the extent that the how much heart and soul runs out.
When there is to have come in the variance to become established a system, the system investment becomes a negative inheritance and causes the enlargedness of the repayment load and influences profit.
The project evaluation axis can be evaluated in the 4 corner viewpoint which consists of the viewpoint of the external environment, the viewpoint of the internal environment, the viewpoint of the technology and the viewpoint of the customer needs.
In the viewpoint of the external environment, the item of external environment and business environmental-variation compatible level, competition predominant compatible level and the interested party ( the stake folder ) participation level can evaluate.
In the viewpoint of the internal environment, the business model creation and restructuring level, the business reform level, management resource change compatible level, organization change compatible level, the corporate culture and climate change compatible level and the operation process influence level can evaluate.
In the viewpoint of the technology, the system cooperation level, the existence system influence level, the technical difficulty level, the technical innovation level, the request skill know-how level and the de facto standard making level can evaluate.
In the viewpoint of the customer needs, the agenda item scale level ( the cost ), the necessary personnel scale level ( the cost and the appointed date of delivery ), the budget scale level ( the cost ), the request solution level ( the quality ) can evaluate.
CSF in this place means the main becoming information-oriented theme to lead a strategy problem about the business end to the solution.
The evaluation of the project can do the computation of the score in the following equation.
PROJECT VALUES = ΣE + ΣI + ΣT + ΣC
In the project, the interested parties ( the stake folder ) at the in and out of the company take part in the planning and the composition which consists of search into a wide range of interests is concluded.
Even if the feature X which has a system becomes a merit for the customer A Inc., the thing that the customer B Inc. doesn't have a merit at all happens.
Also, depending on the participation company, the human resources which master a system are sometimes lacking extremely, too.
As for the becoming information-oriented level, that there is looseness with the participant, the participation company, too, is general.

■The external environment and the evaluation by the viewpoint of the internal environment

In the evaluation of competition predominant compatible level, the point whether or not it is utilizing IT to realize the business model as it is possible to stand predominantly with the competition, making like a principal-particulars of the information system becomes a point.
A good result of the becoming information-oriented investment can not crawl when producing it if the business becomes easy only and the improvement of the management index as it excels competition isn't achieved even if it is possible to attempt the increase in efficiency of the company business by attempting for the information system to get renewed.
If the management effect as it said that it is possible to attempt for the sales to improve and for the market share to rise by the introduction of the new information system and that a lead time and an inventory were cut in half isn't seen, the project isn't evaluated when it succeeds.

Moreover, if few, of course, it causes the decrease of the operations management income by the system subscription and the admission fee of the participation company, Genshi with the operations management cost of the information system can be secured and if there are few participation companies, it has passed away.
□ The evaluation by the viewpoint of the internal environment
In the viewpoint of the internal environment, almost, it evaluates in the cut ends such as whether it is possible to attempt to create the restructuring of the conventional business model and a new business model by the introduction and the improvement of the new information system and so on.
Moreover, the things such as whether the information system can support when it is possible to business reform and it leads to the tendency reinforcement or organization structure is changed, too, must be evaluated.
When not equipped with the mechanism as for the information system to support the change of the organization structure flexibly and the device as it is possible support, the information system has caused the situation which isn't utilized for the user as the rigid-ized tool.
Moreover, if it seems that it is aggravated compared with the conventional operation, returning with the introduction and the improvement of the new information system in the evaluation of the corporate culture and climate change compatible level and the operation process influence level, the project is thought of as the failure.

□ The evaluation by the viewpoint of the technology
The effect of the new information system resembles in the insufficient one and has become if ability of the network cooperation is strengthened in the viewpoint of the technology and it isn't possible to attempt for the system cooperation level to improve.
Moreover, the influence which the new information system gives the existence system, too, must be considered.
In the systematization, development time and a development cost are influenced by the technical difficulty level.
In the new system, there will be a case to require one with the high level of the technical innovation from the client, too.
Moreover, that the high skill and the know-how which was lined with client by the specialty are sought is general about SE and the programmer which takes charge of the system development.
Specifically, the request to the realization of the system to have taken in a de facto standard platform at the axis in the Internet from the viewpoint of the reinforcement of the B to B cooperation and the expansion of the point of tact with the customer by becomes strong.

□ The evaluation by the viewpoint of the client needs
In the viewpoint of the client needs, to do the level of the quality, the cost, the appointed date of delivery which the client demands in the refinment becomes the precondition of the project promotion.
When the cost and the delivery delay as it exceeds an estimate substantially at first occur even if the system with the quality which is good in much is complete, the project can not result in the failure.
The needs to want to suppress the realization cost of the systematization object agenda item which had a purpose of the improvement of the management quality and the pursuing of a management effect always exist at the client.
This place reviews IT solution to the management problem to want to solve a client from the inside of a lot of alternative and the systematization as the biggest management effect can be shown at the minimum budget scale is required from the client.
To attempt to collect IT investment quickly and to make show a management effect, the client will demand compression in the period of the promotion of the project.
It is possible to say that to make the needs of the client the starting point of the system-thinking in the multilateral viewpoint in the evaluation of above mentioned project and to review sufficiently are the role of the project leader.

■The building of a management strategy and a business model
The step of the management strategy planning and promotion process must be able to show the design ability of the restructuring and the creation of the business model.

□ The becoming information-oriented process
In the first step of the reviewing of a becoming information-oriented project, almost, it attempts for a becoming information-oriented project promotion control system to be established.
Specific Executing Process begins with the upstream process management strategy planning and promotion process and next, it completes via the becoming information-oriented strategy planning and promotion process, the systematization promotion process and the operations management process.
Since then, it sees each process specifically.

□The ability and the business model building of the IT project manager
IT power made it possible for the venture business and the niche company about which the capital power is weak to expand business by the e-marketplace in the world on the Internet.
There are a lot of places to produce new business in not depending on the capital power and fighting the inside of these companies by the creation of the business model which has competition advantage and the originality.
The information system is the one where there are many place where the carrying-without exception of the becoming information-oriented approach which depends, being top-down isn't attempted in the company which doesn't function, being good.
It is necessary to attempt to avoid from the approach by the becoming information-oriented which falls, being best for the part, being brandished by the loud needs in the scene.
Today when a management strategy and becoming information-oriented strategy are united, in the becoming information-oriented approach like from the bottom up, it is possible to say that it is impossible to make a becoming information-oriented strategy by which it made a management strategy problem in the direct connection in addition to that the pursuing of a managing effect was insufficient.
In case of drafting of becoming information-oriented strategy, the stance which concerns independently from the step at first of the drafting of strategy is required about the administrator and the top with the department which concerns a management strategy.
It takes account of business strategy, and the information system that it is possible to attempt the differentiation of the business to the competition it becomes a management effect and invents a big cash flow.
This place influences the success or failure of the information strategy roughly by whether or not it is possible to imagine the design of the business activity of the total-optimization.
To repeat active meeting with a management top and a administrator, a review, to take the essence of the problem which the client company has and to put an emphasis on the extraction of the management problem are important.
IT project manager does becoming information-oriented strategy planning and working-out to attempt the solution of the management problem after understanding the management strategy of the client company sufficiently, ascertains the main enabler (CSF) and does dance steps which the becoming information-oriented embodies.
□ The ability of the basic axis of the management strategy and IT project manager (ITPM)
It is possible to say that to attempt the optimization of the limited management resource and to build the business model which aimed for a corporate additional value to be maximized are indispensable to leap to the company which stands in the predominance in the competition.
It leads to the forming of the business basis that to incorporate the idea which has originality into the information system in case of restructuring and creation of the business model and to secure a monopolistic position in the business model patent stand in the predominance in the competition.
In that the Internet becomes popular and that the e-marketplace expands, the buying behavior of the consumer and the company is changing roughly.
To support a tide in such times and to search into the new mechanism of the business activity constantly become the absolute condition of the survival competition of the company.
For its purpose, it grasps customer needs sufficiently and by IT utilization, the innovating of a business process must be attempted.
Here, the approach of the business model to design from the viewpoint of the customer, reversing the vector of the conventional business process as if to serve to the customer, to do logistics, to sell, to produce, to procure, to design, to do a development is important.
IT solution includes a wide range of ones, but it selects the one which was matched with the character of the project agenda item and the business characteristic and the actual state of the client company and the one which can show a management effect is required.
The ability to pursue the speed and the cost of the business in attempting to innovate the business process to have installed a customer in the starting point vector in the viewpoint which is the optimal for the whole and attempting the restructuring of the value chain ( the value chain ) must be put to the body.
That this place makes a managing viewpoint and the viewpoint of the becoming information-oriented a backbone and to attempt to acquire business knowledge about the value chain ( the value chain ) are indispensable.
The basics of the operation management of each industry must be tightly mastered.
To attempt the optimization of the management resource, it improves the operating rate of the person, the facilities, it establishes the relation of the corporate cooperation which involved a procurement place and the mechanism of the business activity to make predominantly with the competition will have to be pursued.
It is the fact to draw the scenario of the additional value creation by the company by what business process and the design of the value chain.
As the evaluation standard of the business process, the technique of Best Practice by the benchmarking is often used.
This is the one which reviews the means to cancel the gap of both, evaluating the level of the company, dealing with the company which is practicing the technique of the best business by the industry for the rating-scale.
Moreover, to have the ability of the project management in case of promotion of the becoming information-oriented is indispensable for ITPM.
To achieve a purpose at first while coping with the fluctuation factor of a wide range of Project Environment in the constrained condition with limited time, budget, appointed date of delivery, personnel, the ability of the efficient project management management which is due to the show of the leadership is required.

■ The point about the knowledge design of the business model

□ The basic structure of the business model
When reviewing the basic structure of the business model, the organization purpose, the social being value of the company, the business feature and the role, the organization structure, the profit-profile must be made clear based on the management vision of the client company.
For its purpose, almost, to grasp an external environment as the market environment which surrounds competition and industry, it analyzes industry structure by the technique of the five force and the model analysis.
Next, it applies SWOT analysis to dig up the advantage and the weak point of the internal environment about the external environment and it extracts the main enabler (CSF:Critical Success Factor) of the business.
As CSF, it reviews product competition power, price competitiveness, service power, a channel and a distribution policies, an investment stance, a value chain ( the value chain ), a business process, a becoming information-oriented level, advantage to the competition and positioning in the market.
In the competition analysis, benchmarking is well applied.
This is the technique which can connect to Improvement Activity as it fills a gap with the company, setting a goal standard, comparing the way and the business process of the business about which the cutting-edge other companies in the same trade and the competition other company are excellent with the one in the company.
Moreover, in the action plan to achieve KPI ( the management goal reaching index ), KPI ( the performance evaluating index ) must be set.
For example, the action plan to set the number of the customer wining to KGI, the doubling of the proceeds, by 3 times in KPI is thought of.
The business domain ( the business territory ) of the company can be grasped with the (WHO) customer, (WHAT) need, core competence ( HOW: the advantage which becomes technical power, design power, the nucleus of the company ) 3 corner axis.
For example, according to the age of the teen-ager, the twentysomething of the younger age group, it develops subdivision and the marketing-activities to make a statification and to be fine at areas and so on, in the customer target of the cell phone which was equipped with some new function, it attempts to absorb customer needs and the approach to commercialize at the excellent design power and the prolificacy is thought of.
To grasp a profit-profile, organization structure, information circulation structure, the value chain ( the value chain ) structure, the cost structure, the business process, the organization feature and the role, the decisionmaking feature and the process, the information circulation feature and the process must be clarified.
In the structural analysis technique which is applied here, it is the analysis of the analysis of the affairs of a business index, a break-even analysis, the technique, ABC/ABM of the various costing.
Moreover, the patent of the rival and the related business model must be completely investigated beforehand in the restructuring and the creation of the business model.
It is to avoid a business model patent dispute beforehand in the step of the design of the business model.
When the reviewed business model is against the business model patent of the other company and so on, under the legal evidence, it is necessary to support by the change of the business model design or the approach by the offense and defense by the immunity-agreement.
Because there is risk which is involved in the patent dispute in some cases, too, when ignoring a step in this place and having systematized the idea of the business model, by the coagency with the client company, the business model patent investigation must go sufficiently beforehand.
After doing above dance steps, it reviews IT solution strategy.
This place makes an external environment and an internal environment, a technology trend and a de facto standard making trend, client needs clear.
The actual state of the client company in IT solution and to combine a best management technique and IT according to the purpose of the introduction and to attempt to choose and to introduce are a point.
To attempt the restructuring and the reform and the creation of the business model of the present situation, with the introduction of the best management technique, it is because to attempt a structural transformation with business model itself is effective.

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