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Toshiyuki YASUI

Toshiyuki YASUI, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Graduate School of SDM, Keio University

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Biography

Toshiyuki Yasui is a Guest Professor of the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University. Whereas his distinguished public services for the Japanese Government for 35 years, he earned his PhD in the International Christian University in 2011. His research topics are innovation design theories and social system methodologies. He was awarded twice the Best Paper Award of the Year from the Japan Society of Competitive Intelligence respectively. He has published more than 40 academic articles and 13 books, including articles in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure, Systems Engineering Journal, and Systems Research and Behavioral Science.

Research Interests

Public policy systems, Socio-critical systems, particularly Systems of Finance, and Currency, financial intelligence, and competitive intelligence

Major Publications/Awards

Books

  • Nishimori, M., Kanke, M., Tsutsuki, A., Kohtake, N., Shirasaka, S., Yasui, T. 'Optimal Policy Design for Disaster-Hit Area of Japan: Bottom-Up System Analysis of Special Zone for Reconstruction by the ISDM', Gheorge, A.V., Masera, M., Katina, P.F. (eds.) (2013) Infranomics: Sustainability, Engineering Design and Governance, New York: Springer ISBN978-3319024929
  • Toshiyuki Yasui, Seiko Shirasaka, and Takashi Maeno, 'Chapter 6: Methodology of Workshop-Based Innovative System Design Grounded in Systems Engineering and Design Thinking', pp.79-89, Takashi Maeno, Seiko Shirasaka, and Toshiyuki Yasui, 'Chapter 7: Wants Chain Analysis: Analysis and Design Methods of Social Systems Taking into Consideration the Diversity of People's Needs', pp.91-105, Kwan, Stephen K., Spohrer, James C., Sawatani, Yuriko (Eds.)(2016) Global Perspectives on Service Science: Japan, New York: Springer, ISBN 978-1-4939-3594-9
  • Toshiyuki Yasui, Takashi Maeno, Seiko Shirasaka, Yoshikazu Tomita and kanenori Ishibashi, 'Workshop-based Policy Platform for Public-Private Partnership (WP5): Designing Co-Creative Policy-Making Platform for Regional Development of Nagano', pp.281-301, and Kazuto Imazeki, Toshiyuki Yasui and Takashi Maeno, 'An Evaluation Method of a Service Business Model Using Wants Chain Analysis', pp.539-550, Takashi Maeno, Yuriko Sawatani and Tatsunori Hara (eds.) (2016) Serviceology for Designing the Future: Selected and Edited Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Serviceology, New York: Springer, ISBN 978-4-431-55861-3

Papers

  • Toshiyuki Yasui, 'A New Systems-Engineering Approach for a Socio-Critical System: A Case Study of Claims-Payment Failures of the Japan's Insurance Industry ', International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), *Systems Engineering Journal * Vol.14 No.4, 2011, pp.349-363
  • Ockie J.H. Bosch, Nam C Nguyen, Takashi Maeno, Toshiyuki Yasui, 'Managing Complex Issues through Evolutionary Learning Laboratories', *Systems Research and Behavioral Science* Volume 30, Issue 2, pp.116-135, March/April 2013
  • Toshiyuki Yasui, Seiko Shirasaka, Takashi Maeno, 'Designing Critical Policy Infrastructures by Participatory Systems Analysis: The Case of Fukushima's Reconstruction', *International Journal of Critical Infrastructures*, Vol.10 Nos.3/4, 2014, pp.334-346

Academic Affiliations

  • INCOSE
  • Japan Society of Monetary Economics (JSME)
  • Japan Society of Household Economics
  • Japanese Association of Risk,. Insurance and Pensions (JARIP)
  • Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR)
  • Japan Association for Social and Economic Systems Studies (JASESS)
  • Japanese Society for Public
  • Administration Public Policy Studies Association Japan (PPSAJ)
  • Japan Society of International Economics
  • Japan Society for Urbanology
  • Japan Society of Competitive Intelligence (CI)
  • Japan Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (JSCEA)
  • Network for Policy Analysis
  • American Society for Public Administration
  • Project Management Institute
  • Project Management Association of Japan

Research Groups

  • Socio-Critical system Laboratory
  • Next Generation Contents Laboratory
  • VERSTA Laboratory
  • Social Life System Laboratory
  • Local Resource Utilization Laboratory
  • Agricultural laboratory
  • Symbiotic System Design Laboratory