Thought I’d better put on the warning lights … there will be less posts for the next couple of days as I am kicking in some job searching activities … in the meantime have a look at this fantastic article by Jason Kottke … lots of business model innovation stuff he touches there … over [...]
This seems like a pretty bad business model innovation idea … who cares which label an artist is signed on to, so I don’t know what they hope for really: Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi Universal, becomes the latest to get into the affinity phone business, joining the likes of ESPN and Walt Disney [...]
Just a little sunday evening pointer (to myself as well) … Paul Graham on the implications of open source and what businesses can learn from this approch … hitting some common organizational pathologies by the way. But the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about [...]
the taz reports on an Internet-only film series … hitting another high pitched tone in my user-generated-content-eager ears, notice only this post of late … read on, behold german text: bspw. Filesharing-Börsen [haben] die Industrie davon abgehalten, die Möglichkeiten dieses unglaublich effektiven, neuen Vertriebswegs zu nutzen. [...] ein Medienangebot zu machen, welches das Potenzial von [...]
… reports the Guardian: A new form of film-making mashes traditional storytelling with video game animation. [...] [used] by artists, film-makers and scriptwriters [and geeks as well]. Even small studios have emerged and the movie industry employs video game engines to pre-visualize their big-budget blockbusters. Well, this is offering (business model) threats and chances to [...]
Great post over at BusinessWeek’s Tech Beat on the business model innovation issues Apple is facing. Well put, but there is more to it: even as Apple concentrates on the sell-the-hardware-model of old, enhanced by iTMS it still needs alternative paths. This is all about strategic flexibility and adaptivity in a marketspace that is complex. [...]
More on the idea of consumer participation … updating these posts on mass customization businesses like Zazzle post of late: Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil This will without doubt offer [...]
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