発想支援イベント「アイデアスロン」の実施と評価-オフィスでのコミュニケーション活性化の実践

摘要

This paper reports the result of the "Ideathlon", an idea generation support project in the NEC C & C Innovation Research Laboratories held between Nov. and Dec. 2008. Ideathlon is a coined term combining "idea" and "athlon". Participants of Ideathlon generated and shared ideas via Email. This trial had two purposes: (l)to encourage participants' idea generation; and (2) to promote informal communication among them. As a result, nineteen participants successfully generated and shared 2840 ideas. After the trial, we conducted the follow-up questionnaire and found some remarkable effects of the Ideathlon. We confirmed that the Ideathlon is also beneficial for encouraging informal communication among the participants. For instance, twelve respondents answered that the Ideathlon promoted their mutual understanding among the participants. Moreover, fourteen respondents said that the Ideathlon promoted their communication in the office.%本稿では，発想支援イベント「アイデアスロン」を通して，オフィス内のコミュニケーション活性化が実現できたことを報告した．特に，発想支援とコミュニケーション支援の「相乗効果」を生み出すことができたことは，大きな成功であったといえる．楽しみながら他の参加者のアイデアを読んで相互理解を深める中で，新たなアイデアを生み出していた．