Who are you in this video?

I was listening to WNYC this morning and came across with a story about a YouTube video produced by an astronaut and created by a group of people working at NASA. The video is about how common “Innovation-blocking behaviors” are within the agency. Well, watch this video. I think what is told in the [...]

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SYPartners featured on Works Magazine

ネットワークのメンバーのキース・ヤマシタさんが会長を務めるSY Partners (SYパートナーズ）に関する記事が、リクルート社発行の雑誌Works 89号に掲載されました。タイトルは「シリコンバレーレポート『カオス発、創造』の条件」。　こちらのリンクでもどうぞ。サンフランシスコを本拠地とするSYパートナーズは、２００９年には東京オフィスを設立予定。
SY Partners is featured on “Works”, Japan’s leading magazine on HR management published by Recruit Co.  The rough translation of the article’s title is, “Report from Silicon Valley – Conditions to create emerges from chaos.”  (Sorry if it sounds too esoteric……) The article is only in Japanese. SY Partners are planning to [...]

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Keith Yamashita, SYPartners’ Handouts Help Create New Value and Spark Innovation

On February 6, 2008, Keith Yamashita, Chairman of SY Partners, distributed these two handouts at the symposium For Profit, For Good: Integrating Social Value into the Bottom Line. Together, the handouts’ purpose is to help people create new value and spark innovation in the face of the status quo:

Value Creation Model (PDF)
SBTA (See [...]

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IN Public Symposium Explores Innovation and Recovery in NY and NO

May 20, 2008 – The U.S.-Japan Innovators Network held the public symposium Innovation & the Art of Future Building in New York on May 20 in order to explore innovative approaches to helping people envision a better future, whether it’s a community coping with natural disaster, an individual rebounding from homelessness or online networks sharing [...]

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Keith Yamashita is The Influencer on CNBC’s Five-Part Primetime Global Series “The Business of Innovation”

Keith Yamashita appears on CNBC’s series “The Business of Innovation,” a show about leadership, innovation, and the daring of some of the world’s most ambitious companies. This five-part series airs on Monday nights, starting June 2nd. Maria Bartiromo hosts the show, and Keith is one of the on-air thought leaders who interview CEOs and [...]

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Architecture for Humanity to Partner with UNICEF

Architecture for Humanity and UNICEF are working together to innovate schools and classrooms for children all over the world, scaling architectural innovation to a profound level. As of right now UNICEF and Architecture for Humanity are seeking design and engineering professional to help develop and build a number of educational facilities in West Africa. Their [...]

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Jazz Is Life Community Dialogue: Innovation & the Art of Future Building

Tuesday, May 20, 6:30 PM — Japan Society, New York
Thursday, May 22, 6:30 PM — Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Innovation, improvisation and collaboration are critical ingredients for recovery. New approaches to problem-solving in Japan and the United States are helping people envision a better future, whether it’s a community coping with natural disaster or an [...]

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Social Entrepreneur Bill Strickland Speaks at Japan Society

LECTURE SUMMARY
Changemakers: Make the Impossible Possible
February 27, 2008
SPEAKER
Bill Strickland, President and CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation; author, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
MODERATOR
Nana Watanabe, photographer and author, Changemakers: Social Entrepreneurs are Making a Difference and Changemakers II: Working as a Social Entrepreneur
Armed with [...]

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Upcoming Event – Lecture: Changemakers: Make the Impossible Possible

Wednesday, February 27
6:30 pm
Japan Society (333 East 47th Street, New York, NY)

Over the past 30 years, Bill Strickland, a leading American social entrepreneur, has been transforming the lives of thousands of people through jobs training center and community arts programs at Manchester Bidwell. He and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adults the [...]

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Kyoto 2007: Invigorating Communities, Designing for Inclusion

RETREAT & PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Invigorating Communities, Designing for Inclusion
November 4-10, 2007
Kyoto, Japan
PARTICIPANTS
Ruth J. Abram, President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Ayako Fujii, President, Environmental Co-op Union, Shiga; & President, Nanohana Project Network
Jeanne Giordano, Urban Design Consultant, Jeanne Giordano Ltd.
Taneo Kato, Secretary General, Asahi Beer Arts Foundation & Executive Director, Yokohama City Arts Promotion Foundation
Keito Kohara, Producer, artcomplex [...]

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