Innovators Marketplace as Game on the Table versus Board on the Web

Author

Ohsawa, Yukio ; Okamoto, Kensuke ; Takahashi, Yuma ; Nishihara, Yoko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Innovation, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

13-13 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

816

Lastpage

821

Abstract

The Innovators Market Game (IMG) has been proposed as a tool for aiding innovative thoughts and communication, coming after our 10-year experiences in chance discovery where tools of data visualization have been applied in cases of decision making of business teams. This game enabled to run and accelerate the process of innovation, as well as to train human´s talent of analogical and combinatorial thinking. In this paper, we compare the effects of IMG as table game and a Web based environment of communication where the fundamental features of IMG are imported. The effects of these two agorae, one on the table and the other on the Web, are compared. It is shown that there are some aspects of innovative communication we can enhance, some on the table and some on the Web. This directs us to future work merging the two in one process called Innovators Marketplace as a generalization of IMG.

Keywords

Web sites; computer mediated communication; data visualisation; decision making; game theory; innovation management; marketing data processing; Web game; Web-based communication environment; business teams; data visualization; decision making; innovation process; innovative communication; innovators market game; Communication; Innovators Market Game; Innovators Marketplance; Web-mediated Communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9244-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4257-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDMW.2010.185

Filename

5693380