Geneva-Kurisaki Market Intelligence Lab

Toyota’s large scale recall issue has been in spotlight in the past weeks, but this may have brought a valuable lesson to a CEO of a major car manufacturing company. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, I have picked up interesting thoughts from an interview with Mr. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan; We don’t consider [...]

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I visited the 80th International Motor Show held Geneva, 4-14 March 2010. I observed an increased response by car manufacturers to the environment concern. Compared with my last visit of the show in 2007, it is a remarkable change all the major companies exhibited hybrid cars. In 2007, only Honda exhibited a hybrid car already [...]

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I worked at WEF (World Economic Forum) held in Davos. My role was to help a Japanese TV crew as a coordinator, mainly to make appointments with those people whom the journalists wish to interview. One of the people I coordinated was Dr. Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International. The interview was inspiring. I almost jumped [...]

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I’m just back from Davos, the 40th World Economic Forum. Though my work was always behind the scenes, I met stimulating people and enjoyed many stimulating thoughts. What’s nice is that WEF posts most of the sessions on the web. Please share with me, thanks to technology, the session “Technology for Society” (29 Jan, 2010): [...]

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Airlines say that self-service is the way to go.　It makes customers travel easy. Customers want it. Is it true? May be, but with limits. Automated systems, such as online booking  and self-serve checking-in, are programmed based on a set of assumptions, based on a hypothesis that all the things go well throughout a travel. Travel however is [...]

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I’ve registered in Lift conference to be held on 5-7 May, 2010. Before registering, I thought if I would wish to attend it again. I have participated in the conference three times in the past, 2007, 2008 and 2009. I organised a workshop in 2009, as I have wished to benefit from unique mix of [...]

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“The Gift from Beate” is a documentary film that describes a series of facts of women’s fights to establish human rights since the end of the WWII. Helping its screening in Switzerland and all over Europe and beyond has become my passion since 2005. In 2010, School of Orientall and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. [...]

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I know many people are not necessarily high on YouTube. It violates Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), it has thousands of silly video clips jut to kill time, etc. These were my perception of  YouTube in the past, too. I’m changed. I think YouTube is Prometheus in our century. It is true that the site has [...]

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