… not particularly directed towards just managing a corporate or finding a solution or bringing out a new equipment or machinery. Innovation is how you think and how you do the normal thinking and normal work in a different way to get exact results in a lesser time or more results in the same time, [...]
Read this really interesting piece on ITW (Illinois Tool Works), touching points like growing through m&a’s, complexity management of organizational structures and above all the overall business model that guides them in their ways … ITW owes its outsize achievements to an unorthodox business model. Like many old-line outfits, ITW gets most of its growth [...]
Read this online edition of the current Philips magazine as of October 2005 on design leadership, innovation, design as tool and mindset for visualising the future and more … like the tales of ‘wild-cat dreaming’ initiatives that examined possible directions for products, environments and society. Notice also this little gem quote: Thinking about potential future [...]
Ein interessantes Interview mit Cory Doctorow von der EFF. In der Blick, aber dennoch sehr lesenwert. Das Content Protection and Copy Management System (CPCM) soll Bestandteil der nächsten Version des in Europa eingesetzten Digital-TV-Standards DVB werden. Wenn das neue DVB dann in fünf Jahren kommt, wird es den Medienkonzernen möglich sein, digitale Aufnahmen von Fernsehsendungen [...]
Ein einführender Artikel zu Open Access der sowohl die Sicht der Verlage, d.h. der dahinter stehenden Investmenthäuser, als auch die Interessen der Wissenschaft gut darstellt. bedeute “Open Access” nicht nur neue verlegerische Risiken, sondern auch Chancen für neue Geschäftsmodelle Interessant dass auch auf die Möglichkeit neuer Geschäftsmodelle hingewiesen wird – zu oft wird dieser Aspekt [...]
Interesting blog post and article on how the business models at business schools are changing. Notice that what is lacking is a comprehension, a holistic view of the complexities of modern organizations: [...] the task of achieving cross-functional coordination and providing students with a cross-functional perspective on organizations is very difficult indeed. What you get [...]
Interesting piece on the pitfalls of over-featuring and over-diversifying … keep in mind that product complexity is huge Are We Developing New Technologies Faster than Consumers Can Use Them? John Gourville argues that the belief that variety is good “is not always true” [...] sometimes offering too many choices prompts the confused consumer to defer [...]
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