Visit and talk in Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, invited by Prof. Katsumi Tanaka (web)
“The Department of Social Informatics (web) seeks to clarify the structures of our highly complicated information society to actually build information systems using its techniques in the areas of global computer networks and large-scale databases, taking also into consideration the fact that autonomous decentralized information networks are becoming ubiquitous in our daily activities … (more)
Talk on BMGEN for graduate students and faculty members of the Lab on social informatics in a nice open space. The seminar aims at learning about and applying a practical visual language to describe, challenge, and design business models. The seminar consists of a mix of practical activities, theories, and short examples that help the attendees better understand business model innovation by listening, seeing and doing themselves. The concepts will be illustrated by examples of business model innovation, such as Nespresso, Nintendo, SunEdison and Cirque du Soleil. Design thinking attitude and customer development are also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.
The talk was followed by fruitful discussion dealing with (a) the canvas used as a template-based brain storming tool, (b) the analysis tools for assessing the quality, the novelty, the credibility of the described business models, and (c) the environmental context (competitors, regulation, …) ?
Then a long stimulating exchange with Dr Hiroaki Ohshima (web), Dr Makoto Kato (web), and Adam Jatowt (web) presenting the interesting research on web searching & mining, knowledge extraction and computational history, they conduct in the Katsumi’s department.
Katsumi Tanaka and his colleagues also presented the decision taken by Kyoto University to create a design school on the model of the Stanford d-school. In September, their department already co-organized a “Summer design school 2012″ (web).
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