ToTAL/OPEN Programs "Effectuation Workshop" (AY2023 3Q4Q)

We are happy to announce "Call for Entries" to the subject workshop. Any of Tokyo Tech students, who are belonging to the categories below, are being encouraged to apply the workshop.

Until now, many innovation creation and new business creation methodologies, including Design Thinking, Systems Thinking and Future Foresight, have focused on clarifying the "goal" as the principal step for such methodologies. Bus is this all? In reality, many cases are adopting the opposite of such approaches: instead of setting goals first, imaging new possibilities using existing means. In the VUCA era, where the future is uncertain and completely unpredictable, "Effectuation", a problem-solving approach that discovers new goals from the means at hand, has been attracting particular attention recently. At ToTAL/OPEN Programs, we would like to take advantages of this trend as soon as possible and offer it as a half-day workshop to expand your thinking methods. This workshop is especially recommended for those who have already experienced “Design Thinking” and/or "Future Insight".

Saturday, December 23, 2023
1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Room S4-202, South Bldg. 4, Ookayama Campus

M. Iino, K. Yamagata, T. Kinukawa / Scale Out Corp.

In your life as a researcher, we tend to get distracted by questions of "how to solve", but in order to find more meaningful problems and new perspectives, it is extremely important to stop and think about "what problem to solve" and "why I want to solve it". In this workshop, you will rediscover your inner potential by inventorying your life, places, and experiences, sharing with your friends, and thinking about "what" and "why". A group of 3 to 4 people will share their preferences, aspirations, knowledge, and human resources that can be used through a "deep self-introduction" to answer "What do we want to achieve?" (i.e., inner potential) and "what are the resources at the hands of you and your team?".

Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) is offering more than 20 kinds of workshops annually for fostering and developing leadership and entrepreneurship. Any of Tokyo Tech students, regardless of whether you are a ToTAL student, an undergraduate or a graduate student can apply for participating any of workshop. In addition, graduate students can register for ToTAL courses that consist of a combination of the above workshops (acquisition of credits), in which case they can also obtain a GA.

Schedule (and Attending Plan) and outline of ToTAL courses and workshops, as contents of the courses (and if the workshop are part of "Events" designated by "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program") can be downloaded from URL below.

If you want to join any workshop(s) of ToTAL/OPEN Programs, please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as above and send it back to followings;

Assoc. Prof. Kamura, Assoc. Prof. Matsuzaki and Prof. Yamada Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)
total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp