On two mass customization business models of the next generation, one of them also peddling user generated content to other users … an interesting business model Zazzle has there … Zazzle allows customers to combine and change many of the images offered. while CafePress plays more by the traditional rules … CafePress acts as a [...]
Ein interessanter Artikel über die Strukturen von Print- und Online-Zeitungen, angesprochen werden auch Spielräume und Möglichkeiten für Geschäftsmodellinnovationen … Von Rekord-Auflagenverlusten geschockt, trimmen die US-Tageszeitungen ihre Redaktionen für das Internet: Die Mauer zwischen Print und Online fällt. [...] [Den] Großredaktionen in den US-Medienzentren [ist es allerdings] oft noch ein Gräuel: die Symbiose von Online- und [...]
Found a good review of the current business models in online music stores … well, pricing models at least, noting some of the problems that are keeping them busy, like (shop) software complexity, procurement pricing and gaping holes in song catalogs. a lot has changed in the online music business since Apple opened its wildly [...]
An old text, still worthwhile … noting the dangers of commoditization and the role of bold innovation … holding that [consumer/retail] manufacturers are too much concentrating on plain “vanilla” products, well, innovative products are losing vs. incremental enhancements. one little gem: “I think it comes down to people being chicken,” [...] “In a way everyone [...]
Modders are threatening the business model of selling underpriced consoles and breaking even with high-cost content (i.e. games). A U.K. court has convicted a UK resident, sending a message to gamers to quit tinkering with Microsoft’s console. The man sold Xbox consoles fitted with a 200 GB hard drive and 80 pre-installed games on his [...]
Update on an old blogpost of mine on new ways of making money for musicians … concerts and everything related is gaining importance as sales of physical media decline. Ex-Dire Straits Mark Knopfler is planning to offer performances from his 2005 world tour right the next day … This is a smart move, playing along [...]
An interesting take on the move towards co-production by Salesforce.com that want to let customers build their own systems. The company, seen as a leader in the movement toward so-called software as a service applications, is making a bet on a new development system–called Multiforce–that lets partners and customers custom-tailor the software and build their [...]
