For the first time since the pandemic, I had a chance to travel back-to-back to Seoul and London. It was wonderful to be travel again to meet family and friends, to visit new places and enjoy local food and drinks. Below is a short video from my stay in London.
I am flying in an Airbus 330 of US Airways, back from Barcelona. Just like any other flights, as soon as I settled down, a flight attendance came to me offering a newspaper. Since I was reading my New York Times on my iPad, I politely declined her offer. Then, about 10 minutes later, a … Read more
Currently I am in Chicago to attend 2009 Academy of Management Meeting. I will try to tweet using #AOM2009 while I am there. I have two panels that I am being part of. The first panel tomorrow is on digital convergence and the emergence of new firms. I will be talking about the new innovation … Read more
I travel a lot and I enjoy it. It is important to travel with right gadgets so that I can continue to work. Recently, I started traveling with my MacBook Air and iPod touch. They are absolutely wonderful travel companions that allow me to continue to write while I am traveling no matter where I … Read more
Today, we visited SAP Design Services Team. We start the day by me giving a talk on my work on organization designing. The talk was a bit rough as I had to deal with audience in Germany and the session started about 30 minutes later than scheduled. At any rate, I hope I conveyed the … Read more
Yesterday, I finished my visits to Gehry Partners, Randall Staut Architects and Grant Architecture — all in LA. They were very rewarding visits. Today, I spend sometime at DeSimone Engineering who collaborate with Gehry and Staut. Now, the first part of the trip is over. I am now waiting for the Design Study Tour to … Read more
From May 19-22, I am taking 18 Fox MBA students to San Francisco area to visit a number of design studios. It is a part of a new course that called, Design & Innovation.
I was in Goteborg, Sweden for a week last week. It was a time well spent as I was working with my colleagues at Viktoria Institute. I always enjoy working with them. It was particularly nice to be there with Jeeyoun. I did not charge my camera battery, so the camera died on me only … Read more
I am currently visiting Viktoria Institute. I am here from Monday through Friday as a part of OPND project led by Ola Henfdrisson. I am enjoying the interactions with people here who are mostly working on automotive related projects.
I was in San Francisco earlier this week for the NSF project on distributed innovation that I am working on. My flight arrived late on Sunday night. I arrived at the Club Quarters almost around midnight. The following is what happened. Me: Hi, I have a reservation. CQ: Sure. What’s your last name? Me: Yoo. … Read more
I am in Helsinki to give a talk at the Center of Knowledge and Innovation Research at the Helsinki School of Economics. The theme of the conference is open innovation. I always enjoy being in Scandinavian countries. There is something special about them — modest, understated, pragmatic, and innovative.
More pictures can be seen here.