2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
Information and Service Science for Social System II
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Instructor(s)
- Seiichiro Honjo
- Class Format
- Lecture (HyFlex)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Sat
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TIM.C517
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
[Summary]
Students will learn about innovation that deals with meaning and service, including their epistemological and sociological backgrounds.
[Aims]
The importance of viewing things from the first-person perspective of practitioners and from a systemic perspective that includes diverse stakeholders is increasing in business. In this class, students will learn about design-driven innovation and service-dominant logic and gain a theoretical understanding of these perspectives based on practical experience.
Course description and aims
The goal is to learn about the following topics.
- Design-driven innovation
- Innovation of meaning
- Second-order understanding
- Service-dominant logic
Keywords
design-driven innovation, sense-making, constructivism, services
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
lecture, group work, reports
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Course guide Design as creation of meaning | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 2 | Design-driven innovation | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 3 | Network of interpreters and stakeholder model | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 4 | Service-dominant logic | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 5 | Service ecosystem | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 6 | Service science | Group discussions and submission of communication sheets |
| Class 7 | Presentation | Presentation of assignments and submission of communication sheets |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for and reviewing the content of each lesson, referring to the course materials.
Textbook(s)
Original materials
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Krippendorff, K. (2006), The semantic turn: A new foundation for design, New York: Taylor & Francis CRC.
Verganti, R. (2009). Design-driven innovation: Changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean. Harvard Business Press.
Lusch, R. F. &, Vargo, S. L. (2014). Service-Dominant Logic: Premises, Perspectives & Possibilities, Cambridge University Press.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Contribution to the class and final report.
Related courses
- TIM.C516 ： Information and Service Science for Social System I
Prerequisites
Proactive attitude