FOO CampのFOOは「Friend of O'Reilly」(オ・ライリー氏の友人)の略だ。ちなみにBillじゃなくてTimの方ね。彼は毎年、少人数のグループをセバストポールに招き入れ、一緒の時を過ごして話しをする。ただTimは友人が多く、全員を呼ぶわけにもいかないから、そのことでときに傷つく人が出ることが問題だったりもする。でもこのような集まりには、それ以上大きくしすぎてしまうと生産性が落ちてしまうというサイズがあって、今くらいがちょうどいいと僕は思っている。
Global Voicesは、僕が「無関心問題」と呼んでいるものを解決するためのきわめて重要な要素だ。ほとんどの先進国では、海外のニュースを報道することに対して組織的なバイアスがある。多くの編集者は、そのことについて詰問されると、人々は世界の他の地域に関する記事はとにかく読みたがらないのだと返してくる。これは、多くの人がそれらの地域に関心を持っていないからだ。そして無関心なのは、彼らが他の国の人々を知っているわけでもなく、その声が聞こえてくるわけでもないからだ。僕は、人々の声を世界中に届けることで、お互いに繋がりを持たせ、関心を抱いてもらうようにできるだろうと考えている。
LinkedIn, Joi Labs and Kokuryo Lab of Keio University has started a joint project to create a video series entitled "Business Success in Open Networks" .
The video series will be in Japanese, so I have translated some of the essense of the video as follows.
===Business Success in Open Networks===
Episode #1 by Jiro Kokuryo and Joichi Ito
Q: What is the purpose of this video series?
According to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, there is a new type of business style "Open Business Network" in Silicon Valley area. LinkedIn is an essential tool for this "Open Business Network".
The purpose of this video series is to find out whether this is possible in Japan.
Q: What do you mean by "success"?
Success can refer to personal success and business success.
Many of the successful companies recently tend to be venture internet companies and they grew with the help of labor liquidity, deregulation, innovation etc.
Open style is suitable for speedy and innovative companies, which requires professionals and the type of resource they need changes rapidly and need specialized skills.
In Japanese startups, it is hard to get those type of people because the skilled people they are locked in to the big companies and are frustrated.
We have a hypothesis that LinkedIn might be able to solve this problem.
Q: Is US model really open?
Japanese business context is more of using the brand of "big companies" compared to the US companies which has more brand of "individuals".
In Japan, reputation is made by the fact that this person is has a title (for example head of certain devision) of famous companies. In the US, reputation belongs to individuals and what business experience he or she had.
In the US, education background (such as which university you went to) counts more than Japan and in that sense there is a question whether US really "open". In Japan, companies counts more- especially in big companies. For example, people puts "san" to company names or title, such as "LinkedIn-san" or "Manager-san" ("san" is like Mr. or Mrs. in English, and it is usually used to refer to names not companies nor titles. Hoffman-san make sense, but LinkedIn-san or CEO-san is odd- but are commonly used)
For individuals, liquidity of labor might be good, because even if the company is not successful, individuals can use their skills to go to next company rather than sticking to current company.
Q: Coping with risk?
In Silicon Valley, if you perform well in a certain job, then even if the company fails your friends would know you and you would be able to get into successful companies.
In shrinking economy, you need to go to growing companies which are typically global, IT, and speedy company which has liquidity of labor - which is similar to Silicon Valley companies.
Q: What is "open"? Is making everything open really good?
example) Wikipedia example) IBM- open standard, utilization of open software
Companies and individuals should have core competence. Things other than the core competence, they should open up.
Focus on the competition point, and open up the non-competitive area. ex) disclosing the "business process" of companies
Opening up when other company needs to keep it close ex) IBM using Linux (vs MS)
If you have value, you will have business model afterwards. Companies that does not have value (but only had rights) will die.
Open business can be a strategy for the stronger ones to get stronger. If you have core strength, the environment works better for you when it's open.
For maximizing short term profit, it is better to make things closed and control. For maximizing long term profit, it is better to make things open and create ecosystem around you.
Q: What does "business success" mean? profit? influence? sustainability?
Influence and happiness is different.
Typical companies has life cycles (Google, MS, etc has, or had peak). Toyota is ever-growing. There are some companies that don't need or don't want to grow (small and happy family business etc).
Typical measurement are growth, mass-production, efficiency, public company, quarterly earnings. However, people who don't fit those typical companies goes to Wikipedia/Linux etc and their happiness and influence is fulfilled.
Not only revenue, but strong message, value and happiness gathers good people to your company and opening up will help people's understanding of the company and attracted by you.
Communication tool- internet, social network, business network enables people to make various individual human networks.
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