Archive for the ‘talks’ Category

talk at Design Singapore

Monday, November 5th, 2012

talk and discussion on business models and design thinking at Design Singapore Council (web), invited by Thierry Do and Jawn Lim.

The mission of the DesignSingapore Council is to develop Singapore into a global city for design where design innovation drives economic growth and enhances the quality of life. The DesignSingapore Council promotes and develops the design industries as a creative cluster, encourages the adoption of design by enterprises, and nurtures a climate of co-creation and innovation through design … more

Thierry Do (linkedIn) is also an adjunct Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore. He is co-developing with the “Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (EDIC)” team a design-centric curriculum for the faculty that aims to equip all engineering students with design thinking skills to help spark design-driven innovation.

Dr Jawn Lim (linkedIn) is Doctor of Design & Technology at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was trained as an architect and project manager while working at Frank Gehry and other architect studios.

The talk aims at learning about and applying the visual business model canvas to describe, challenge, and design business models. The concepts are illustrated by examples of business model innovation. Design thinking attitude and techniques are emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

Visit and talk at Kyoto University

Friday, October 26th, 2012

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).

Talk and visit at Keio University

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Visit at Keio Media Design (KMD), at Yokohama, invited by Prof. Adrian Cheok

“The Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) was established to train talented individuals to work on the global stage building and running new industries for the coming “creative society,” a world in which the driving force of the economy will be creativity rather than productivity or efficiency …” (more)

Stimulating discussion with Adrian Cheok and visit of the KMD Labs. Adrian’s research (web) concerns mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, embedded systems, and power electronics. He is the author of the book entitled “Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication” (Springer).

Adrian was enthusiastic on the Digital Content Expo (web), “an international event intended to shape the future of this industry five or ten years into the future as well as promote the exchange of the latest information between participating researchers, creators and businesspeople active in this field”.

Talk on BMGEN for KMD graduate students and researchers. 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.

Discussion with Dr. Satoru Itabashi, who works with Prof. Yoko Ishikura (blog), on their vision on business model design. Satoru authored the book Picto (web) (amazon) describing the Itabashi diagrammatic problem solving method for visual thinkers. In their work with Yoko Ishikura, they combine the BMGEN canvas and the Itabashi diagrams for defining business models.

talk @ IDEO

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Talk, design session and nice discussion at IDEO Singapore, invited by Teddy Zmrhal.

The talk presents the visual business model canvas for designing and assessing business models. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

BMGEN at NUS Fac. of Engineering

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Seminar at NUS Division of engineering and technology management (ETM), invited by Prof. Hang CC

Abstract
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, SunEdison and Eight19. Design thinking attitude and customer development are also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

BMGEN @ HEC alumni Singapore

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

communication aux alumni HEC de Singapore, au Swiss club de Singapour, organisé par Véronique Salvi, stagiaire swissnex (web)

    The talk presents the visual business model canvas (web) for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Cirque du Soleil, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. Business model innovation, design and testing are also illustrated with the story of the BMGEN book and software.

    BMGEN @INSEAD

    Monday, October 1st, 2012

    talk and discussion on techno-entrepreneurship, at INSEAD MBA, invited by Dr Virgin Cha (web)

    The talk will present a visual canvas for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Circus of the Sun, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

    BMGEN at ideas.inc. StartingUp, Grand Finale

    Friday, September 21st, 2012

    Keynote for ideas.inc, at Sentosa, on September 22

    “… an opportunity for you to learn more about entrepreneurship and get introduced to ideas.inc. Challenge. The ideas.inc. StartingUp is a conference where you learn from the pros, network with the experts in the ecosystem and meet like-minded individuals!”

    The talk presents the visual business model canvas for designing and assessing business models. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. The suggestion to the entrepreneurs will be to “burn their business plans but design, test, and iterate their business models”. As Steve Blank tells it: “no business plan survives the first contact with customers” …

    sketching by Tim Hamons (web)

    (see also a blog post by Martin Pasquier)

    DS seminar à NUS BIZ

    Saturday, September 15th, 2012

    seminar at the NUS Business School, Department of Decision Sciences, on September 19, 3:00pm, BIZ 1, Seminar Room 02-04

    The talk will present the business model canvas for designing, assessing and challenging business models. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity will also be emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. The talk will also describe the research conducted to develop the business model canvas, for which a design science paradigm has been adopted. Three research areas and artifacts have been explored. The first one concerns the formalization and visualization of the core constructs related to business models. The second area corresponds to the exploration of how design techniques might contribute to improving the generation and evaluation of multiple business models. The third one is the research of computer-aided design assisting in the process of designing strategic objects such as business models.

    BMGEN @ ISS

    Monday, September 10th, 2012

    talk and discussion on techno-entrepreneurship, at NUS Institute of Systems Science (web), invited by Dr Virgin Cha

    “The Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore is known for its broad-based advanced professional continuing education in Information Technology specialising in Software Technology and Engineering Practice and provides industry with Strategic IT Management, e-Business and Knowledge Management expertise.”

    The intro to the BMGEN canvas presents the business model canvas for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Cirque du Soleil, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.