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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #14

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #14

winyy Issue #14今週はGAFA CEOの議会証言があり、強くなり過ぎたGAFAへの独禁法適用の影が強くなってきました。先週はFord CEO Jim HackettがどのようにFordの車づくりを変えたか、という記事がありましたが、実際に推進した組織D-Fordの記事が興味深いです。そして、先週一番クリックされた記事は、”デザイン思考とは何か、教育がDisruptionされている中でどう使われているか"という記事でした。今週号も気に入ってもらえたら、メールの末尾の「いいね！」ボタンをお願いします！拡散大歓迎。サインナップはこちら。winyy Issue #14Following the last week article about Ford's Jim Hackett, "How Ford Drives Business Agility With Design Thinking" is a must-read this week! The most read news last week was "What is design thinking, and how can it be used as education faces disruption? ".Enjoy this issue!Please press the 'Like it' button at the end of the email if you like this issue.Sign up page is here.

August 01, 2020

綺麗な船内

“It's a big moment because although the event may be virtual its significance is starting to open space to everyone is very real,” Virgin founder, Sir Richard Branson, noted during today’s reveal. “Somebody once said to me the Virgin Galactic spaceship was the first one to be built from the inside out,” he continued. Virgin Galactic teamed up with UK design firm, Seymourpowell to develop the vehicle’s interior to develop “an elegant but progressive, experience-focused concept,” according to a Tuesday press release.

アメリカ軍でのイノベーションを起こす取り組み

For the past two years, a U.S. Air Force wing built an innovation playbook — leadership, buy-in, experimentation and speed..

自動車の自動販売機Carvanaで実際に車を買う体験記事

Carvana made it incredibly easy to buy a used car during the pandemic.

祝！打上げ成功。火星からのサンプルが戻ってくるのは10年後。ローバーの名前は「忍耐（Perseverance）」

Some powerful self-driving tech is on its way to the Red Planet.

マイクロソフトのデータセンタを2日間水素だけで動かした

Microsoft announced Monday that hydrogen fuel cells powered a row of its datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, bringing the company one step closer toward its goal of becoming “carbon negative” by 2030. Microsoft is exploring how the clean technology could be used to fuel more aspects of its operations. The tech giant laid out plans in January to “ultimately remove Microsoft’s carbon footprint” by 2030.

Startups with design thinking as part of their culture understand their customers’ needs better and sustainably develop innovative value-adding solutions. Here’s how to implement the five-stage process of design thinking in your startup.

先週はHackett CEOの記事でしたが、今週は実際に推進したD-Fordの記事。「フォードは、生活の中でトラックなどの道具を使うことに情熱を持っている潜在的な顧客と何千時間も過ごした」

Ford infuses design thinking, through a group called D-Ford, across the entire organization to support both employee and consumer innovations.

PoC（実証実験）の重要性

The race is on. Since the introduction of social distancing measures earlier this year, the market has suddenly become a real life version of “the floor is lava”, with startups and even large enterprises jumping from idea to idea, and competing for funding, customers, and survival. Whether their whole business model needs a reset or …

NVIDIAがARM買収意思

Graphics card company Nvidia is reportedly in advanced talks to buy ARM, the mobile chip designer that powers nearly every single Android and iPhone device — along with newer computers from Apple and Microsoft — from SoftBank in a deal worth over $32 billion.

Appleはパンデミックの中、四半期最高業績

It seems like Apple's steady cadence of product releases in the midst of a pandemic has seriously paid off. The company released its Q3 2020 earnings this afternoon, in which it reported $59.7 billion in quarterly revenue and $11.25 billion in net income -- that's up significantly compared to Apple's performance in the year-ago quarter. According to CEO Tim Cook, healthy growth across Apple's product and services divisions and notable sales gains around the world over the past three months have been enough to make this a record-setting quarter.

VCは未だ白人男性優位の業界

Like many industries with a high concentration of wealth — and the careers that help professionals accumulate it — investment firms have a severe dearth of diversity in their ranks.

これはビッグニュース

The discussions come as TikTok’s ownership by a Chinese company is under scrutiny by the White House and lawmakers.

GAFAの製品・サービスなしで生活できるかの体験記事

As lawmakers debate whether Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolies, a reporter recalls her attempt to avoid interacting with the companies.

スタンフォード大学のネットワークで投資するファンド

Stanford’s success in spinning out startup founders is a well-known adage in Silicon Valley, with alumni founding companies like Google, Cisco, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and, yes, even TechCrunch. And venture capitalists routinely back more founders coming out of the Stanford business program than any other university in the country. One group of Stanford graduate […]

デジタルトランスフォーメーションにはデュアルトラックアプローチが必要

A solid strategy combines innovation at the enterprise- and business-process levels, Harvard Business Review Analytical Services and Quick Base found.

The urgency of digital transformation is hitting home like never before in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. What are key strategies to ensure successful adoption of technology within your company?

Digital transformation goals require identifying the potential leaders to bridge the skill gaps

FRBは経済を見るために、クレジットカードの取引や小売の来店数、GoogleのGPSデータ、Open Tableでのレストラン予約データなど様々なリアルタイムのデータを見ている

The Fed is looking more closely at a variety of real-time data sources, like debit card transactions and store foot traffic.

AIが見つけた芸術作品の類似点

A new system developed by MIT researchers called “MosAIc” is finding hard-to-spot similarities between art pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. To use MosAIc, the user inputs an image and MosAIc’s algorithm finds similar art pieces.

CESで発表されたVision-Sが公道を走る。ソニーらしい美しいビデオが必見

Its big CES surprise may evolve beyond the prototype stage after all.

GAFAのトップが議会に召集される

Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation. What we learned from Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai

Most read news last week.

Rooted in early Silicon Valley product design, the philosophy has evolved into an effective educational tool for youth. Here's how it's being deployed at local programs Dual School and Strive.