Honeycomb sheet and creation method therefor, and application software for honeycomb sheet creation

Abstract

To provide a honeycomb sheet that can have management elements arranged flexibly and extensively, a creation method for the honeycomb sheet, and application software for honeycomb sheet creation.SOLUTION: A honeycomb sheet 1 is formed in a planar honeycomb structure formed by arranging a honeycomb cell in a regular hexagon shape, representing one management element in a management element group consisting of a predetermined number of management elements, as one unit adjacently to other honeycomb cells. The management element group consists of a plurality of systematized management categories. The management categories are divided into management A of business, management B of work, management C of persons, self-management D, and a common category E of core conception common to anyone.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a honeycomb sheet, a method for producing the same, and application software for producing a honeycomb sheet.

Background Art

[0002] Conventionally, as a tool for organizing thoughts, a so-called mandala chart is known, in which a main theme is placed at the center and elements necessary for achieving the main theme are arranged around it, so as to visually derive ideas for solving the main theme.

[0003] For example, Patent Document 1 discloses an innovation matrix sheet that displays an example of a mandala chart on a sheet surface, in which various items necessary for creating those ideas are provided as columns in order to derive business plans and business ideas of companies and the like. This matrix sheet has a 3×3 nine-section layout provided on a rectangular sheet. In the central section, an item column of a "product / service column" to be considered is placed, and in the surrounding eight sections, item columns such as a "target column" and a "channel column" necessary for considering the central "product / service column" are arranged. In addition, bidirectional arrows for relating each of the central section and the surrounding eight sections to each other are provided diagonally.

[0004] According to this matrix sheet, it is possible to think in an order-independent state without particularly considering the creation order starting from the current situation analysis, and without overlooking important items, and it is possible to create a business plan or a business idea. Also, even if something has been decided once, by returning to the origin along the arrows attached to the sheet, the uniformity of the way of thinking can be eliminated, and fresh thinking in any order can be brought about.

Prior Art Documents

Patent Documents

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Patent Document 1

Summary of the Invention

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

[0006] By the way, management is a system of information called concepts. To visually overview how the management elements as concepts are related to other management elements, the matrix sheet of Patent Document 1 cannot be used. That is, in the management system, it is desirable to visually organize information about the relationships between elements and information about the relationships of elements in the whole by arranging a large number of management elements. However, in the matrix sheet of Patent Document 1, the central concept as the main theme is fixed, and the elements arranged around it are limited. Therefore, even if such a conventional matrix sheet is used for visualizing the management system, the information of management elements cannot be increased and expanded.

[0007] Furthermore, in the management system, it is desirable that individual management elements are visually arranged so as to be perceived as equivalent to each other. However, in a conventional matrix sheet, the section representing one element is a rectangle, and the arrangements of the elements are different, such as vertical and horizontal arrangements with a tangent or diagonal arrangements via a contact point. Therefore, such different arrangements of elements evoke different relationships, and the relationships are fixed by the arrows between the elements. Thus, even if such a conventional matrix sheet is used for visualizing the management system, each management element cannot be perceived as equivalent, and the management elements cannot be arranged flexibly.

[0008] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a honeycomb sheet capable of arranging management elements flexibly and expansively, a method for creating the same, and application software for creating a honeycomb sheet.

Means for Solving the Problems

[0009] The honeycomb sheet of the present invention is formed into a planar honeycomb structure in which hexagonal honeycomb cells each displaying one of a group of management elements composed of a predetermined number of management elements are arranged adjacent to other honeycomb cells with one cell as a unit.

[0010] The group of management elements preferably has a plurality of organized management categories.

[0011] The management categories preferably include business management, job management, people management, or self - management.

[0012] The management categories are preferably identified by color - coding.

[0013] Regarding the relationship between the management element of a honeycomb cell and the management elements of other honeycomb cells adjacent thereto, when the adjacent management element corresponds to any one or more of the following concepts: 1) a concept indicating the establishment conditions for the management element to function, 2) a concept indicating the constituent elements of the management element, 3) a concept indicating the essence of the management element, 4) a concept having the same semantic content as the management element, or 5) a concept having a front - back relationship with the management element (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "adjacent requirement"), it is preferable that the other honeycomb cells are arranged adjacent to the honeycomb cell.

[0014] The honeycomb cell may further display a sub - management element indicating a subordinate concept of the management element.

[0015] The method for creating a honeycomb sheet according to the present invention includes a first step of selectively arranging honeycomb cells that display any management element from among a group of management elements composed of a predetermined number of management elements, a second step of selectively arranging, adjacent to the selectively arranged honeycomb cells, honeycomb cells that satisfy a predetermined adjacency requirement from among the group of management elements, and a third step of selectively arranging, adjacent to the honeycomb cells in the first step or the honeycomb cells in the second step, honeycomb cells that satisfy a predetermined adjacency requirement from among the group of management elements. By repeating any one or more of the first to third steps, a plurality of honeycomb cells are arranged.

[0016] The predetermined adjacency requirement preferably corresponds to any one or more of the following relationships between the management element of the honeycomb cell to be adjacently arranged and the management element of the honeycomb cell to be adjacently arranged thereto: 1) a concept indicating the establishment conditions for the management element to be adjacently arranged to function, 2) a concept indicating the constituent elements of the management element to be adjacently arranged, 3) a concept indicating the essence of the management element to be adjacently arranged, 4) a concept having the same semantic content as the management element to be adjacently arranged, or 5) a concept having a front-back relationship with the management element to be adjacently arranged.

[0017] The application software for creating a honeycomb sheet according to the present invention causes a hardware to execute an element group display step, an element selection step, and a honeycomb cell display step. The element group display step causes the display unit of the hardware to display a group of management elements composed of a predetermined number of management elements. The element selection step causes an arbitrary management element to be selected by a selection unit from among the group of management elements displayed on the display unit in the element group display step. The honeycomb cell display step causes a honeycomb cell indicating the management element selected in the element selection step to be displayed at an arbitrary position on the display unit, and when a honeycomb cell is already displayed on the display unit, the selected honeycomb cell is displayed at a position adjacent to that honeycomb cell.

[0018] The hardware may be further caused to execute an element addition step of adding a new management element to the management element group.

[0019] The hardware may be further caused to execute an element editing step of editing the management elements of the management element group.

Effect of the Invention

[0020] According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a honeycomb sheet in which management elements can be arranged flexibly and expandably, a method for creating the same, and application software for creating the same.

Brief Description of the Drawings

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Mode for Carrying Out the Invention

[0022] The inventor is one of the researchers, Peter Drucker. In particular, as a result of intensive research on the fact that management is a system of information called concepts (management elements), by incorporating the semiotic idea that words are not substantial concepts but relational concepts, in the management system, it was found that the value of individual management elements is generated only by their relevance to the whole and their interrelationships with other management elements, and a tool that can show the relationships between management elements with a sense of distance and depth was found, leading to the present invention.

[0023] The honeycomb sheet according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. As shown in FIG. 1, the honeycomb sheet 1 of the present embodiment is a sheet in which a plurality of regular hexagonal cells (hereinafter referred to as honeycomb cells) are displayed on one sheet surface. The plurality of honeycomb cells are of the same size as each other, and are arranged without gaps and without overlapping, so as to regularly partition the sheet surface, which is a plane, into a so-called honeycomb structure. The honeycomb sheet 1 is formed in a planar honeycomb structure in which regular hexagonal honeycomb cells each displaying one of the management elements in a management element group composed of a predetermined number of management elements are arranged adjacent to other honeycomb cells with one honeycomb cell as a unit. The creator can create the honeycomb sheet 1 by describing each management element on a sheet composed of blanks. However, among the plurality of honeycomb cells, there may be cells in which the management elements are described from the beginning. For example, "results", which is a goal in organizational management, may be described in advance, and a part or all of each management element may be described as a configuration for assisting thinking in the creation process. Also, the honeycomb sheet 1 may be formed by arbitrarily arranging a plurality of honeycomb cells in which the management elements to be described are predetermined. In this example, for each of the predetermined number of honeycomb cells in which the management elements to be described are predetermined, they are positioned on the sheet surface. By visually recognizing the relationships between the management elements and the relationships of the management elements as a whole from an overhead view and using them for information organization, as a result, the information is organized while being expanded.

[0024] In the case of the present embodiment, from the viewpoint of arranging the honeycomb cells in an isotropic and aligned manner without gaps, the honeycomb cells are preferably regular hexagonal. The hexagonal honeycomb cells are in contact with a maximum of six other honeycomb cells equally, so that the consideration of the relationships between the management elements is not overly restricted by the form of the cell shape, and the honeycomb cells can be arranged flexibly.

[0025] The management element group consists of a plurality of organized management categories. The management categories are divided into a common category E of core concepts common to any of management A of the business, management B of work, management C of people, and self - management D. These management categories are system areas organized by the inventor. By making the management categories into four system areas of management A of the business, management B of work, management C of people, or self - management D, the inter - relatedness among the four management categories is pursued, and management is understood systematically. The management categories A - E are color - coded for easy identification. For example, management A of the business is dark blue (dark blue relative to the color of management B of work), management B of work is blue, management C of people is red, self - management D is yellow, and common category E is light blue or bright red, etc. As long as at least those four management categories are identified by color - coding, the inter - relatedness among the management categories can be visually grasped. Thus, since color - coding is for visually grasping the inter - relatedness among management categories, it suffices to be color - coded by at least any one of hue, saturation, and lightness.

[0026] Note that in FIG. 1, the color - coding of management categories A - E is represented by the difference in the hatching patterns within the honeycomb cells, and the boundaries between the management categories are made clearer by using double lines. However, since the boundaries between the management categories are visually recognized by color - coding, it is not necessarily required to indicate them by line types such as double lines or the thickness of the lines as in this example.

[0027] As described above, management A of business, management B of work, management C of people, and self - management D are four system areas systematized by the inventor as management categories. And a predetermined number of management elements are allocated to any one of management categories A to D, or to common category E. Here, the predetermined number is generally about 50 to 100. However, in the case of this embodiment, those embodying management concepts (management elements) are extracted from the index of Drucker's books, etc., and the number thereof is 67.

[0028] Each management element is determined to belong to a particular management category. For example, as shown in Fig. 1, the management element "Innovation" 21 belongs to business management A, and the management element "Work productivity" 22 belongs to work management B. Conversely, business management A includes management elements such as "Business", "Mission", "Value", etc.; work management B includes management elements such as "Work", "Work design", "Goal", etc.; people management C includes management elements such as "Team", "Talent cultivation", "Followership", etc.; and self-management D includes management elements such as "Personality", "Concentration", "Self-actualization", etc. In this example, all management elements are predetermined, and each individual management element belongs to one of the management categories A to E. Therefore, the number of management elements that make up the multiple management categories A to E is determined. For example, for the management elements that make up management category A, there are 22 such as "Innovation" 21, "Environment", "Resources", etc.; for the management elements that make up management category B, there are 5 such as "Work design", "Work productivity", etc.; for the management elements that make up management category C, there are 14 such as "Leadership", "Organizational culture", etc.; for the management elements that make up management category D, there are 14 such as "Time management", "Self-actualization", etc.; and for the management elements that make up management category E, there are 11 such as "Culture", "Organizational society", etc. The honeycomb sheet 1 is arranged on the sheet surface by the positioning of the honeycomb cells, with each of the multiple management elements that are associated (corresponded) with the management categories and prepared in advance as the items to be described in the honeycomb cells. That is, since the positioning of the honeycomb cells is made according to the management elements planned to be described in the corresponding honeycomb cells, the honeycomb sheet 1 can be obtained with different shapes (the outer peripheral shapes of each management category) and positional relationships of the multiple management categories A to E depending on the arrangement pattern of each individual honeycomb cell.Regarding the management element "results", it may belong to any management category or may not belong to any management category.

[0029] Figure 2 shows an enlarged view of the business management A in Figure 1, and using this Figure 2, the adjacency requirements between management elements will be explained. The adjacency requirements mean that for the management elements arranged adjacent to each other, the adjacent management element must meet one or more of the following for the management element to which it is adjacent: 1) a concept indicating the establishment conditions for functioning, 2) a concept indicating components, 3) a concept indicating the essence, 4) a concept having the same semantic content, 5) a concept in a front-back relationship. The requirements are defined for the relationship between a honeycomb cell and other honeycomb cells arranged adjacent to it, and by making the requirements for such adjacent arrangement into multi-faceted requirements such as establishment conditions and components, a sense of distance is given between management elements, and even on a plane, a three-dimensional representation is achieved by weighting to give depth.

[0030] As shown in Figure 2, for the "business" 23 of the management element on the adjacent arrangement side, since the concepts indicating the establishment conditions for the "business" to function are "mission", "environment", etc., the management elements "mission" 24 and "environment" 25 meet the adjacency requirement 1) and are arranged adjacent to the "business" 23. Also, since the management element "business" 23 is a component (subordinate concept) of the "organization" 26, it meets the adjacency requirement 2) and is arranged adjacent to the "organization" 26.

[0031] The adjacency requirements are not limited to the above 1) to 5), and for the management element on the adjacent arrangement side, concepts explaining itself or concepts indicating superordinate concepts may be used. Also, the adjacency requirements do not prevent the adjacent arrangement with management elements belonging to other management categories. In other words, it is the relationship between concepts that is not captured by the comprehensive concept regarding the area of the management category.

[0032] Using FIG. 3, the sub - management elements of the honeycomb cell of this embodiment will be described. In the honeycomb cell displaying the "Business" 23 of the management element, a plurality of triangular sub - cells are inscribed. In these sub - cells, "Business Analysis", "Life Cycle", "Resource Investment", etc., which are sub - management elements indicating the subordinate concepts of "Business", are displayed respectively. Similarly, in the sub - cells of the "Innovation" 21 of the management element, "Test", "Idea - based", etc., which are sub - management elements indicating the subordinate concepts, are displayed respectively.

[0033] The sub - management element is for deepening the understanding of the management element which is its upper concept. By displaying the sub - management element as the subordinate concept of the management element, a deeper consideration about the recognition of the management element itself and its relationship with other management elements becomes possible. The sub - management element may be prepared in advance, or at least a part of it may be generated when arranging the honeycomb cells as something for understanding the management element corresponding to the upper concept.

[0034] Next, the application software for creating the honeycomb sheet of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 301 according to this embodiment. The information processing apparatus 301 includes a CPU 302, a memory 303, a management unit 304, a user interface (UI) unit 305, a communication control unit 306, an image processing unit 307, and a display unit 308. Each functional unit provided in the information processing apparatus 301 is communicably connected to each other via a system bus 109.

[0035] The CPU 302 is the control unit of the information processing apparatus 301, and manages the files stored in the memory 303 by controlling the management unit 304. In the memory 303, a plurality of management data in which a management category and a management element are associated are stored. In this example, 67 pieces of management data regarding 67 management elements, which are the same as those in the first embodiment, are stored. The CPU 302 can execute an OS (Operating System), a driver, an application, or the like. The memory 303 is a storage area and includes a ROM that stores a system program and an application, and a RAM that reads out data in the ROM for execution by the CPU 302. The UI unit 305 acquires user input via a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, or the like (not shown). The communication control unit 306 communicates with the outside via a network such as the cloud and performs data transmission and reception.

[0036] The image processing unit 307 performs encoding processing and decoding processing of an image. The image processing unit 307 performs encoding and decoding processing of an image such as JPEG, for example. The image to be processed may be stored in advance, or an imaging unit (not shown) may be provided to acquire an image, or an image may be acquired from an external device. Further, an encoded image may be acquired from an external device, and the encoding process by the image processing unit 307 may be omitted. Any known process may be used for the encoding process and the decoding process of the image.

[0037] The display unit 308 is a screen that displays, for example, a liquid crystal display, the processing result by the information processing apparatus 301, and the like. Although details will be described later, the display unit 308 can display an image in a display format determined by the CPU 302 according to a group. The display unit 308 may include, for example, a screen touch sensor and enable application operations by a user via a GUI.

[0038] FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of a process for creating a honeycomb sheet. In step S501, the CPU 302 causes a display unit 308 to display a management element group composed of a predetermined number of management elements based on an external instruction (element group display step). For each of the management categories A to E included in the management element group, the management elements included therein are displayed on the display unit 308. For example, in the case of the work management category B, "work", "work design", "work productivity", etc. are displayed. In this step, for a specific management element, a sub-management element may be further displayed. For each of the management categories A to E, the color coding shown in the first embodiment may be performed on the management elements included therein.

[0039] In step S502, an arbitrary management element is selected from among the displayed management elements for each of the management categories A to E (element selection step). When selecting an adjacent honeycomb cell for a honeycomb cell that is already displayed, the selectable elements may be restricted so that only the honeycomb cells of the management elements that satisfy the above-described adjacency requirements are selected. The input unit such as the mouse or touch panel described above is used as a selection unit, and a management element is selected according to a user's selection operation on the input unit.

[0040] In step S503, the honeycomb cell indicating the management element selected in the element selection step (step S502) is arranged and displayed on the display unit 308 at any one of 1) an arbitrary position (first step), 2) a position adjacent to the honeycomb cell arranged in the first step (second step), and 3) a position adjacent to the honeycomb cell arranged in the first step or the second step (element display step). It may be possible to change the arrangement of the elements arranged on the screen while taking into account the adjacency requirements. That is, it may be possible to visually assist the user in devising which arrangement is more preferable while moving the arrangement of a predetermined management element.

[0041] If there is an instruction to obtain a further element arrangement in step S504, the process returns to step S501 to select management elements. If the desired element group arrangement is completed and an end instruction is input, this process ends.

[0042] Note that the management element group displayed in step S501 is not limited to the pre-defined element groups, and it may be configured such that new management elements can be edited and added by an external input (element editing process). Specifically, by an external input via the UI unit 305, new management elements can be added to the existing management categories A to E, or a new management category and the management elements included therein can be added.

[0043] According to this embodiment, by using application software, a honeycomb sheet can be easily and automatically created. The output of the honeycomb sheet created by the application software can be printing on the sheet surface of a sheet (paper, plastic film, etc.) or display on the screen of the display unit 308 (see FIG. 4).

[0044] Also, according to this embodiment, the addition and editing of management elements are enabled by the element addition process 11 and the element editing process 12, and it can also support new management theories.

[0045] Note that in the above first and second embodiments, when organizing the management elements (concepts) displayed in the honeycomb cells, the "intension" and "extension" of the philosophical method may be used.

Explanation of Reference Numerals

[0046] 1 Honeycomb sheet 21 "Innovation" 22 "Work productivity" 23 "Business" 24 "Mission" 25 "Environment" 26 "Organization" 301 Information Processing Device 302 CPU 303 Memory 304 Management Unit 305 User Interface (UI) Unit 306 Communication Control Unit 307 Image Processing Unit 308 Display Unit Management of Business A Management of Work B Management of People C Self-Management D

Claims

1. A honeycomb sheet formed in a planar honeycomb structure in which hexagonal honeycomb cells each displaying one management element among a group of management elements composed of a predetermined number of management elements are arranged adjacent to other honeycomb cells with one cell as a unit.

2. The honeycomb sheet according to Claim 1, wherein the group of management elements has a plurality of organized management categories.

3. The honeycomb sheet according to Claim 2, wherein the management categories include business management, work management, people management, or self-management.

4. The honeycomb sheet according to Claim 3, wherein the management categories are identified by color coding.

5. Regarding the relationship between the management element of the honeycomb cell and the management element of the other adjacent honeycomb cell, when the adjacent management element corresponds to any one or more of 1) a concept indicating the establishment conditions for the management element to function, 2) a concept indicating the components of the management element, 3) a concept indicating the essence of the management element, 4) a concept having the same semantic content as the management element, or 5) a concept having a front-back relationship with the management element, the other honeycomb cell is arranged adjacent to the honeycomb cell. The honeycomb sheet according to any one of Claims 1 to 4.

6. The honeycomb sheet according to Claim 5, wherein the honeycomb cell further displays a sub-management element indicating a subordinate concept of the management element.

7. A first step of selectively arranging a honeycomb cell that displays an arbitrary management element from among a group of management elements composed of a predetermined number of management elements; A second step of selectively arranging, adjacent to the selectively arranged honeycomb cell, a honeycomb cell that satisfies a predetermined adjacency requirement from among the group of management elements; A third step of selectively arranging, adjacent to the honeycomb cell in the first step or the honeycomb cell in the second step, a honeycomb cell that satisfies a predetermined adjacency requirement from among the group of management elements, and A method for creating a honeycomb sheet in which a plurality of honeycomb cells are arranged by repeating any one or more of the first step to the third step.

8. The method for creating a honeycomb sheet according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined adjacent requirement is such that, regarding the relationship between the management element of the honeycomb cell to be adjacently arranged and the management element of the honeycomb cell adjacently arranged thereto, the management element to be adjacently arranged corresponds to any one or more of: 1) a concept indicating the establishment condition for the management element to be adjacently arranged to function; 2) a concept indicating the constituent elements of the management element to be adjacently arranged; 3) a concept indicating the essence of the management element to be adjacently arranged; 4) a concept having the same semantic content as the management element to be adjacently arranged; or 5) a concept having a front-back relationship with the management element to be adjacently arranged.

9. An element group display step of causing a display unit of hardware to display a management element group composed of a predetermined number of management elements; An element selection step of causing any management element to be selected from among the management element group displayed on the display unit in the element group display step; A honeycomb cell display step of causing a honeycomb cell indicating the management element selected in the element selection step to be displayed at an arbitrary position on the display unit to be executed by the hardware, wherein the honeycomb cell display step is application software for creating a honeycomb sheet that causes the selected honeycomb cell to be displayed at a position adjacent to the honeycomb cell already displayed on the display unit when a honeycomb cell is already displayed on the display unit.

10. The application software for creating a honeycomb sheet according to claim 9, further causing the hardware to execute an element addition step of adding a new management element to the management element group.

11. The application software for creating a honeycomb sheet according to claim 10, further causing the hardware to execute an element editing step of editing the management elements of the management element group.

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