Felipe (form Santiago, Chile)

Sorry if it’s not clear in the presentation – business origami most definitely is a desktop walkthrough method. That’s why the deck moves from walkthroughs to business origami, and in the actual workshop we talk about that evolution.

It just provides additional structure & vocabulary at lower cost than using Lego or Playmobil. The notion of identifying value exchange is something specific to business origami that could be adapted in other walkthroughs, too.

I don’t know how familiar the Hitachi Design folks were with other walkthrough approaches when they started using business origami.

Interesting slides!
However I am still left with one important question.
What’s the added value of business origami over a desktop walkthrough. When i saw your presentation i had the feeling that this method gives you the ability to visualise a business model. But apart from that, it is basically the same as desktop walkthrough… isn’t it?

what do you think about the novelty of this approach?

Barbara

>> As part of those responsibilities, government should sometimes be a partner and engage in conversation, collaboration and co-creation. Government needs to be open to the expertise of its citizens collectively and individually.

<< As part of those responsibilities, government must always be a partner and engage in conversation, collaboration and co-creation. Government must be open to the expertise of its citizens collectively and individually.

Is government an entity to obsolete or a process to evolve?

You have just articulated an important element that is missing from cities’ use of design competitions to crowd source problem solving, which I wrote about in a recent blog post, http://nwhysel.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-roadmap-could-use-gps.html. I refer to it as an app gap, which is the gap between the goals of the city to reduce the cost of providing services to its citizenry and the goals of the developer to garner VC interest, and a second gap within the city itself, between providing needed services and showing off local talent to attract employers to relocate here.

Without an analysis of needs and limitations of citizens by people in city government, we end up with yet another restaurant locator (last year we had a bunch) or inadequate delivery mechanism and content that does not address the needs of at-risk communities (eg., health Dept condom locator app – iOS only, first of all, but, secondly, maybe why is more important than where)

Radar.oreilly.com did a good analysis of this the other day too.