Project Design Room の #003 の扉。ゲストは図解総研代表の近藤哲朗（チャーリー）。

We were invited as a guest on the third episode of "Project Design Room"!

It is a podcast that sits down face-to-face with entrepreneurs, scientists, creators, and pioneers leading a new era to dissect the secrets of project success.

We talk about all sorts of things, including our diagram activities.

Please give it a listen

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S3dD3pd0OD48qijRlQAZx

About the show

"Project Design Room" is a podcast hosted by Mitsuyo Demura of Konel and Chizai Zukan. Each guest is asked five questions from the viewpoint of "project design." Our CEO, Tetsuro Kondoh, appeared in the third episode, "Creating a common language for the world with diagrams," released in two parts on April 21, 2023, about 65 minutes in total. The show now continues under the name "Hatsumei Zenya."

What we talked about

  • VISION (what future the work is for): reducing how hard it is to reach expert knowledge, and the gaps in information, so that more people can think about business and society for themselves.
  • ORIGIN (the experience at the root of the work): Kondoh studied architecture at university and graduate school, then worked as a web director at KAYAC. The work began in 2017, when he posted business model diagrams he had drawn for his own learning on Twitter and note.
  • KEY (what leads a project to success): when making Business Model 2.0 Visual Guide, he called for collaborators on social media and they worked on the diagrams in teams. Rewards and roles were explained up front, and each person chose whether to join. He also spoke about balancing the social, the economic and the creative, and about deliberate "paradoxes" such as publishing the whole book online for free.
  • CHALLENGE (the wall to get over): failures in running the community. Relationships became harder to keep as the group grew; roles were separated to align expectations; and a community policy was written together with the members.
  • EFFECT (the effect on society): a diagram is a communication tool whose value comes from being used. He spoke about giving away the business model diagram toolkit for free, and his unease with businesses that deliberately widen information gaps.

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