business model innovation design we're on a road to nowhere // on a quest to analyze and explore the design of business model innovations, i.e. 'hideous and hidden things' like organizational structures and capabilities, corporate strategies and all things related // on a yellow brick road with a girl, a lion and a straw-man wasting our time // …

a nice commentary that hit my soft spot … Think back to the heyday of Napster, when a befuddled music industry was confronted for the first time with massive file sharing. It was a crisis. Since then, the tech market has responded with all sorts of innovations: Selling songs online, subscriptions, packaging music with video, [...]

Intel and Bertelsmann plan to cooperate in developing technology for downloading and sharing films, music clips and games from the Internet. This report is positioning this move in the wider context of the digital home, something that I will write more on later on. Well, to me this smells a lot like the infamous “trusted [...]

Update zu MGM vs. Grokster … a ruling isn’t expected until July, so don’t hold your breath. No matter what the outcome though, one thing is for certain – the high court’s decision will directly affect how people use entertainment and share information for years to come. [...] it is entirely possible that the entertainment [...]

… in der Medienindustrie … und die Gefahren der Verlinkung. Nicht mehr allein die Musik- und Filmindustrie ist bedroht, sondern auch Informationshändler wie Presseagenturen: It is the architecture of the web itself that gives the recording industry and motion picture industry fits, and the same structure is now apparently exposing media empires to risk. Der [...]

… man darf gespannt sein wie das Urteil ausgeht, hoffen wir auf die Einsicht in den Betamax-Präzedenzfall – oder? morgen früh ist es jedenfalls soweit … zu den Hintergründen und zur Bedeutung für Innovation, innovative Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle ein weiterer kleiner Artikel, diesmal von BusinessWeek, nicht viel neues, aber die Kommentatorin Lorraine Woellert trifft im [...]

  … and don’t you dare to use any other MP3-Players …  

Ein kleiner Text in der neuen Ausgabe von Wired zur Konkurrenz zwischen Blu-Ray und HD-DVD … gut beobachtet ist dass der Kampf wohl umsonst sein wird weil online distribution beide obsolet machen wird: [...] Blu-ray and HD-DVD, and the powerful coalitions that aim to bring them to market. With Sony and other device manufacturers on [...]