Author: juhohyvarinen

  • Future of the book – workshop

    by Juho Hyvärinen My course fellow Anu. K. Nousiainen arranged a year ago a workshop regarding her thesis. The idea was to create ideas in order to help her to get material for the thesis and help with the research part. Anu only had a one problem: She needed qualified facilitators to keep the discussion flowing…

  • Service Design Breakfast: Integration of Service Design and Elearning

    by Juho Hyvärinen Thursday 29 November Facebook alerted me that I had enrolled for the Service Design Breakfast at Otaniemi. So, it was time to print out the tickets and head for the Aalto University, formerly known as TKK campus at Espoo. I arrived at Aalto University’s Start Up Sauna and after a freebie breakfast it…

  • Design Meets Business

    Posted by Juho Hyvärinen I had an honor to participate in a design seminar in Helsinki City Hall on Thursday 18.11. Although having lived my whole life in Helsinki I think this was the first time I actually visited the city hall inside. The surroundings were grand and in my opinion proper setting for afternoon…

  • Doctoral Dissertation of Anna Salonen

    Posted by Juho Hyvärinen I had an honor of participating in Doctoral Dissertation of Anna Salonen in wonderful settings of Runeberginkatu 22-24. The title of dissertation was “Essays on globalization and evolving competitive strategies of Finnish MNEs: Transitioning from products to services and solutions”. As opponents were Professor, PhD Kazuhiro Asakawa from Keio University and…