Development of Educational Programs for System Creators and Business Producers in Future Strategy Design in Action Project Group Activities Through Industry-University Cooperation

Abstract Our Japanese industry-university project group from Aoyama Gakuin University investigated and studied new educational programs to cultivate “future strategy design” human resources over several years. The purpose of this research paper is to describe two types of educational programs. The first program proposes the system creator, which is capable of new product design and innovative management that uses advanced technologies such as IoT, AI, and augmented and virtual reality. The second program proposes the business producer that is capable of platform service business modeling, product development and strategy, and customer service. The characteristics of these programs involve to apply new educational methods to combine project based learning (PBL) and active learning.