Thursday, November 4, 2004
Takemi Yamazaki
Fellow and Senior Scientist
Fuji Xerox
Tokyo, Japan
Sensing important activity happened elsewhere
Abstract
The traditional large shared offices used in
Japan have some advantage over private office rooms. Information and suggestion
was exchanged unconsciously. Everybody knew who is doing what without additional
effort, as long as they were in the same (or related) community. This made it
easy to disseminate and generate knowledge in real business contexts. However,
recently, this cultural advantage seems to be lost.
It is partly because of the globalization where co-located people are only
a part of the community, and partly because of using personal computers which
make even neighbor's activity invisible. What can we do for best utilizing
IT in these circumstances? My opinion is that we need a new definition of proximity
and its implementation.
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