Noboru Konno has started a workplace design site that shows the latest trend. Happy Workplace This is a great read for people who are responsible within a company to create workplace that is a vital part of company operation, and for people who are workplace design professionals.
Category: Ba Concept
What “Ba” means
Blog is a community: caring together
As I was surfing the internet today, I came upon a moving blog entry by Tom Peters. In the entry titled Black Dogs, Loved ones, Etc., I felt like inscribing the following words to my heart and brain: First, I think Blogs should be personal & authentic
Web Social Networking Business Potential
KNN Web Social Networking Business Potential Seminar was held at Steelcase Tokyo Worklife Showroom on March 17th. Since I was a staff helping to run the seminar, I did a lot of running around and did not focus my attention on the seminar. But parts of it I watched I enjoyed
Through Orkut
Orkut is a ba. Virtual ba, that is. I was looking for cool people to meet, places to work, particularly free WIFI cafes, in San Francisco through my trusted contact who first introduced me to Orkut
Energized environment
Over the past 10 years, I have read a few books. Each of the book is so full of wisdom the writer has accumulated over many, many years. I am learning that not even 10 readings of each of these books I have chosen are enough
Upbeat
Woke up with a hangover this morning. It might be the effect of pain relief I took for the hangover, because even half a dose of any drug does its job, even gets me high. Maybe I was already at the point of discovery and hangover somehow nudged it over the edge
New combination of “ba” in Japan
My Australian friend once mentioned to me during his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eating is interacting in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground ginger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle
Workplace as Information station
Shimazaki-san gave us so many good source of discussion, I think we will accumulate enough writing on those topic to produce several dissertations! One discussion he and I had was about the meaning of workplace. He sees it as "ba" which information flows
Knowledge Creation and IT
My Australian friend once mentioned to me during his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eating is interacting in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground ginger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle
Brainstorming: Japanese way, North American way
In business context, with average workers: Brain storming the Japanese way: In order for one to have a successful brain storming session with Japanese, setting time, meeting in a formal conference room, to have a high ranking superior attend will not be a good set up
Virtual Garden
Pierre, thank you for such great time! I truly enjoy our time together, both in person and within the Virtual Garden. What a great name, Virtual Garden! We humans need words to hold onto our thoughts and our feelings, and it is only appropriate that we give each important Ba a name
“5% technology 95% psychology and attitude”
My Australian friend once mentioned to me during his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eating is interacting in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground ginger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle
