meetings with Prof. Nonaka and Konno
Interesting meetings and fruitful discussions with Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (web), and Prof. Noboru Konno, Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science, and President of KIRO (web).
Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka and Noboru Konno have written quotes and prefaces ofr the Japanese edition of BMGEN (amazon).
This year, together they co-authored a book entitled “The grammar of knowledge creating management for prudent capitalism” (amazon). They adopted the business model canvas for the chapter 7 “Business innovation and sustainability”. Ikujiro Nonaka is also the editor of the book entitled “Business model innovation” where the BMGEN canvas is also used in several chapters (amazon).
I also chatted with Hirotaka Takeuchi, Harvard Business School, Nonaka’s co-author of “The knowledge creating company” (amazon). I enjoyed their last article in HBR “The big idea: the wise leader” (web).
With Noboru, the discussion was mainly about the links and relationships between (a) Design thinking, (b) Scenario planning, and (c) Business model.
We also evoked Bill Moggridge’s memory, founder of IDEO, a good friend of Noboru, who recently passed away:
