Interesting little article on how musicians are increasingly bypassing big labels by utilizing platforms like MySpace.com, noting also the high up-front costs of going with a major label, By making their recordings available for free and allowing people to share them with each other, bands are able to get themselves heard without having to spend [...]
I had to think of this smart little quote of C.K.Prahalad when reading this article on the emerging business of WiMax connectivity: Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. (Spectrum) resources are always limited for upstarts, partly due to incumbents hoarding them (and because of government reserved space like in this case [...]
This looks like a great workshop at Case Western, organized amongst others by Richard Boland. The conference seeks to facilitate dialogue among the disciplines involved in design and organizational action, including organization theory, information systems, management, strategy, accounting, education, architecture, industrial design, and others. Some resources are noted, look out for additional proceedings.
Neckermann.de soll zur offenen Vertriebsplattform für externe Partner ausgebaut werden… Künftig bietet neckermann.de externen Partnern auf Provisionsbasis den Zugang zu einer Vielzahl von Nutzern. neckermann.de wickelt dabei den Bestellprozess ab und leitet den Auftrag an den Partner weiter. Vergleichbare Dienste bietet Amazon bereits seit längerem Anbietern an, die auf der Plattform der US-Firma bereits gelistete [...]
A survey in Strategy + Business magazine (a publication of consultancy BoozAllenHamilton) detects the sources of organizational dysfunction and finds that two thirds of all businesses are ‘unhealthy’, or as I would say they exhibit pathologies (and neuroses) and that these make them basically incapable of responding effectively and flexibly to economic events and changing [...]
I have been updating and tweaking my sites off lately, now I’m closing in, one last thing: I am switching this blogs address, no BIG changes for the folks that are subscribed via Feedburner (i.e. http://feeds.feedburner.com/BMID), everything remains the same on the syndication front. Only people who are subscribed via the WordPress-Feed (i.e. http://www.martin-koser.de/wp_1/wp-rss2.php) need [...]
AOL und TimeWarner planen mit In2TV ein webbasiertes Fernsehangebot. Nachdem Nutzer bestimmen wann Sendungen starten, oder sich sogar mit TiVo über Werbepausen hinwegzappen ist das ein logischer Schritt, zumal breitbandiges Internet (und mobile Player wie der iPod video) den Trand verstärken. “Der On-Demand-Markt ist für alle Medienkonzerne ein Muss, und was Time Warner macht, ist [...]
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