… narrowcasting and extended (mass) personalization of media delivery are only one step away. The intersections of communication, business models and media are an interesting hotbed for business model innovations. Some of these will ultimately evolve around some archetypic forms of communication, like individual communication (IM, face-to-face meetings, email conversations), broadcasting, i.e. a wide shotgun [...]
Der Managementvordenker ist am Freitag im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben. Viele wichtige Managementideen und -konzepte sind durch ihn geprägt worden, einige davon (und auch Einblicke in eine faszinierende Persönlickeit) sammelt Erick Schonfeld in seinem Business 2.0 Blogeintrag, mehr u.a. bei der NY Times.
Oh well, this is so right on point … Stephen Baker in BusinessWeek on the miseries of jargon (add this to the big list where nih-syndrome, group think, and a bunch of other organizational pathologies reside). Notice also that innovation is hindered by jargon: Why so? Breakthroughs occur at the borders between discliplines and cultures. [...]
Ein lesenswerter Artikel in der Zeit von Gunhild Lütge, aber IMHO und aus Sicht von Innovationsmanagement und -politik mit zweifelhaften Argumentationslinien und Folgerungen. Es geht u.a. um den (Regulierungs-)Schutz den sich die Telekom von der Politik wünscht wünscht, um profitabel Breitband-DSL der nächsten Generation (in einigen großen deutschen Städten) anzubieten. Zitat: Die Telekom braucht jetzt [...]
In the November 2005 Harvard Business Review there is an article on Innovation versus Complexity by Keith Aspinall and Mark Gottfredson: Innovation Versus Complexity: What Is Too Much of a Good Thing? Full text access must be payed, have a look at the abstract for a start: What’s the number of product or service offerings [...]
Fine interview with Sam Lucente, Hewlett-Packard’s director of design and brand experience, in BusinessWeek on Innovation and Design at HP, noting IMHO the importance of (a) a wider perspective on innovation and (b) orchestration in spite of organizing, i.e. organizational work to drive innovation: Orchestration of many players in business ecosystems, i.e. value nets that [...]
Interesting piece on MySpace.com, noting its role in business model innovation for the music industry. Facilitating community interaction leads eventually to viabe commerce … [...] the first serious business model for music in the post-Napster era. [...] MySpace bands [...] keep production and promotion costs as low as possible. They give away their best two [...]
