IIAI Letters on Business and Decision Science

Business Professionals' Acceptance of Ikebana

2024-12-20T11:58:21+00:00

Mindfulness, a type of mental training, is gaining attention among business professionals. This study explored the potential of ikebana as a form of mindfulness practice. Further, it sought to elucidate how ikebana is integrated into personal and business settings. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with business professionals experienced in ikebana, guided by two research questions. Consequently, we confirmed that participants’ words regarding their personal lives, business, and self-perception are relatied to the ikebana. Additionally, participants noted that ikebana can be a mood-changer in everyday life and promote self-awareness and awareness of others in business contexts.

Value Design Method for Digital Innovation

2025-01-20T21:59:02+00:00

With the evolution of digital technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence), opportunities for digital innovation are expanding for all companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises and non-IT companies. However, while many companies can engage in “defensive digital transformation (DX)” by using digital technologies to improve their daily operations, achieving “offensive DX” to create new value in products and services through digital technologies is not easy. We have been developing the “Digital Innovation Design Method” to support offensive DX. This paper presents a new method to further concretize the “value design” of Digital Innovation Design Method. Specifically, while the original value design used the Value Proposition Canvas, the Value Proposition Canvas is generic and difficult for companies unfamiliar with digital technologies to utilize for offensive DX. The method proposed in this paper supports value design considering the characteristics of digital innovation utilizing “Value Graph” and “Digital Value Patterns” in addition to “Value Proposition Canvas” and evaluates its effectiveness through a descriptive experiment with 32 participants.

The Influence of Body Usage on Creative Drawing: A Comparison of Calisthenics and Meditation in Junior High School Students

2025-01-14T16:13:50+00:00

This study investigates the influence of body usage on creativity drawing. We examined the effects of physical exercise and meditation on creativity in second-year junior high school students (N=97) through a within-subjects experiment. Participants performed three-minute sessions of calisthenics and meditation before drawing, and their artworks were analyzed for differences in area, color usage, and the presence of warm/cold colors. The results showed that 1) drawings after meditation tended to have larger areas, while those after calisthenics showed an increased use of warm colors; 2) In the questionnaire, the students who felt that calisthenics activated their creative drawing often commented on body image, while other students who felt that meditation activated them commented on thinking and feeling.

A Novel Balanced Reporting Innovation with Data Governance Evolution (BRIDGE) Method

2025-01-26T09:36:41+00:00

The era of Society 5.0 demands both creativity and systematic knowledge implementation in organizational settings. However, there exists a significant gap between understanding new knowledge and its practical application. This paper proposes the Balanced Reporting Innovation with Data Governance Evolution (BRIDGE) method as a novel approach to facilitate the transition from intellectual understanding to unconscious competence in implementing new knowledge. Through the lens of Eduinformatics, we demonstrate how the BRIDGE method effectively integrates abductive reasoning for innovation while ensuring organizational acceptance. Using a case study from institutional research practices, we show how the method provides a structured transition period where traditional and innovative approaches coexist, enabling organizations to maintain operational continuity while implementing new methodologies. The BRIDGE method addresses the fundamental challenge of knowledge acceptance by acknowledging that while creativity and abduction are essential for generating new knowledge, successful implementation requires careful consideration of organizational dynamics. Our findings suggest that this method can be adapted for various organizational contexts where new knowledge needs to be effectively implemented and accepted, providing a practical framework for bridging the gap between innovation and adoption.

Proposal of a Haiku Evaluation Method Using Large Language Model and Prompt Engineering

2025-01-20T05:55:02+00:00

In this paper we describe the development of a haiku evaluation system using Large Language Model (LLM). We propose several prompting methods for haiku evaluation and selection, and verify the performance of the proposed methods using an automatically evaluable haiku dataset. We also performed haiku evaluation and selection on a large haiku database containing over 100 million verses using the proposed methods and validated their effectiveness through a questionnaire survey of haiku poets. The main contributions of this paper are as follows. First, we investigated the effectiveness of the procedures for demonstrating the validity of a number of haiku rating systems, including the creation of rating datasets and the results of subjective ratings through questionnaires. Second, we investigated methods for conducting haiku evaluation using LLM and prompt engineering.