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 // …

Short article by Kevin Werbach on behalf of BusinessWeek on, well, kind of user-centered innovation: Want a sneak peek of tomorrow’s technology? Look to generals, gamers, and fashionistas, where the real innovations will come from Interesting how he views the big and huge organization military as kind of hothouse and testbed for innovation, I do [...]

… if you like lists, ranking and ranting companies … you’ll like this … They’re masters of technology and innovation. They’re global thinkers driven by strategic vision. They’re nimbler than Martha Stewart’s PR team. They’re The Wired 40 … … and there’s only one german company on the list, of course its SAP … and, [...]

Interesting news from Deloitte … on the future of TV networks, [...] threatened with extinction if they don’t evolve quickly into something else: Not so long ago, the business model for television networks around the world was simple: produce programs, broadcast them across a national network of owned and affiliated stations to a mass audience, [...]

Microsoft wird mit Samsung bei der neuen Xbox kooperieren, aktuelle Nachricht von Golem.de Wieso die Ankündigung aber großspurig sein soll weiss ich nicht. Ich finde eher, dass Microsoft hier wieder einmal vieles richtig macht, die Einbindung von Partnern war ja auch schon beim Einstieg in den Spielkonsolenmarkt mit der Xbox 1 recht erfolgreich … Meine [...]

Interesting article (and quote) by James Surowiecki on how organizational cultures can come in the way of innovation … leading to misery … Remember the misled attempt of Sony to establish its very own format for compressed music … ignoring the established standard mp3 … at least they have stopped this folly … but apparently [...]

Found this interesting paper on the effects of p2p technology … by the Digital Media Project team at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. New digital technologies and the online environment pose significant challenges to the traditional business models of the music and film industries. The digital era threatens current [...]

Forrester Research is warning IT departments of Greasemonkey … oh boy, granted, Javascript extensions can be harmful … but the cat is out of the bag already, as eager (may I say power) users have downloaded FF and the most clever ones have also detected Greasemonkey and its benefits … [they started] using it to [...]