The "well-being engineering" project investigates the methods to manage well-being at the workplace through a series of research, experiments, and analyses, to improve the happiness and the productivity. ?This project adopts the experience sampling method, counting the total number of "what I felt good today" written by individuals, when measuring the degree of well-being. Also, in order to measure gratitude behaviors in the community, we developed copy sticky notes type "thanks card". In the presentation, we will examine the relationship between the expressed gratitude and the happiness traits of the subjects.

Governments are promoting the use of open data, providing also tools and services. However, their presumed uses are mainly based on a single data set. Potentially most valuable uses of public data, however, consist of combining two or more data sets which are independently designed and collected. For this kind of use, there must be two prior conditions. First, the catalogue of existing open data sets must be available. Secondly, two or more data sets must be combined efficiently. As this is outside of the original scope of the data providors, tools and services to combine more than one data sets do not seem widely available. The article addresses these issues around combining two or more open/public data sets, as a preparation for statistical analyses.

The rapid digitisation of the society has been dramatically changing the nature of the relationship between our society and IT, thus the frontiers of our researches. In this article, we look into what, JASMIN leaders see, are important topics and issues to be addressed in near future by the society members, through Delphi method (staged voting method with feedbacks). The results are compared with the ones from an on-going similar project about global IS leaders' views. Discussions on the differences and similarities conclude the article.

Traditionally, the dynamic adaption of IT interface has been discussed in the context of reaction against the change in organisation's environmental and/or competitive condition. Assumption there has been that the managerial environment changed faster the that of IT infrastructure. ?Hence, the topics covered have been directed towards the adaptation on the IT side, such as flexible information systems and componentisation. With recent accelerated development of IT, however, the areas of works usefully born by IT has been expanding accordingly. Consequently, the adaption by the organisation has been becoming an urgent concern. The article reviews the global issues of dynamic adaptation and postulates a framework for researches into them.

Organisations including firms implement IT in order to improve the quality and the speed of internal communication and decisions. The article investigates whether IT implementation, in fact, improves the variables constituting the organisational IQ, when the rules and system of the internal communication and decision are measured with organisational IQ, through evaluations by experts (researchers, IT consultants and CIOs). The results suggest that while IT can contributes to internal knowledge dissemination and continuous improvement, other principles are not necessarily affected.

BSC (Balanced Score Card) is frequently employed in evaluating return on IT investment, as it is difficult to identify the scope and the time lag of the effects of IT projects, and as number of valuables are not amenable to quantitative measurements. Furthermore, BSC is claimed to measure not only past performances, as does financial measurements, but also future performances. It is not known normally how much of these assumed advantage is true. The article investigates the relevance of BSC evaluations by comparing the BSC evaluation of IT investments and the actual economic performance of the sample firms.

Japan Society for Management Information (JASMIN) was established when the JapanSociety forManagement Informatics (JASMIN) and Association forManagement Information (AMI)were merged in 1992, with a scope of researches into utilization technology of information technology(IT). The article describes its brief history, as well as the positioning and the status of the Societyvis-`a-vis other academic societies in the related fields, the society in general and the internationalcommunity in the field, in particular Association for Information Systems (AIS) and InternationalConferences on Information Systems (ICIS).

JPAIS(Japan Association for Information Systems) is a Japanese Chapter of AIS (Association for Information Systems), and has been holding AGMs since its establishment in 2002, at semi-annual conferences of JASMIN (Japan Society for Management Information)which is an Affiliated Organization of AIS. During the Meeting, the Association's past activities as well as this year's plan to have another workshop/session at the next ICIS in Phoenix shall be discussed. If you are planning to attend ICIS 2010, and/or interested in working internationally, you are cordially welcome to attend and participate in the meeting.

JPAIS (Japan Association for Information Systems) is a Japanese chapter of AIS (Association for Information Systems) which sponsors ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) meetings, amongst other activities. This year, along with JASMIN which is an Affiliated Organization of AIS, JPAIS is going to host a Pre-ICIS session in Paris. Lively exchange of ideas by participants interested in IS in Japan and Japanese IS is expected. This session is to discuss the above pre-session, as well as the JPAIS activities in general. Please come and join in if you are interested in attending the Paris session, and/or any dimension of international research.

Although the systemic view of the world was intellectually pertinent during 1950s-70s, and the idea was also avidly applied to the organisation, after a few decades it is not necessarily easy to see its influence on our current understanding of organization. The article investigate the relevance of systemic view to the organizational research through analysis of empirical data, to demonstrate that the view is relevant especially when the effect of systemness (emergent properties) is measured.