business model innovation design we're on a road to nowhere // on a quest to analyze and explore the design of business model innovations, i.e. 'hideous and hidden things' like organizational structures and capabilities, corporate strategies and all things related // on a yellow brick road with a girl, a lion and a straw-man wasting our time // …

In Ergänzung zu meinem Ikea-Eintrag noch eine kleine Ergänzung: Ikea-Gründer Ingvar Kamprad im Interview mit der Wirtschaftswoche.

Hehe, sehr schön und sehr wahr:Helden der Arbeit: Sie sind krank? Gehen Sie arbeiten. Dort wimmelt es von Leidesgenossen.

This is the reason why my two ventures, frogpond and BMID, exist: Via this post from Headshift I followed up these referenced videos of the latest NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) event: Collaborate to Innovate: the rise of social networks. [...] creativity as a function of a situation and not of [...]

Seems like podcast day again … huh? Read and/or listen to this podcast with Peter Fader @ Knowledge@Wharton, talking about business model implications of Apples iPhone move, product innovation and design, whether these products are delivering features that consumers really want and upcoming disruptions in the media industries, i.e. home entertainment stuff (and business model [...]

Over at IT Conversations Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Strategy at Yahoo! speaks about how Yahoo! is leveraging open innovation, e.g. by opening its gates to the community with their API for open-ended projects such as Flickr, MyWeb, Delicious and Upcoming. Then, he discusses the concepts and visions of social search, while the program was [...]

Der Väter-Blog weist auf ein Interview mit dem Schlafmediziner Charles Czeisler in der Wirtschaftswoche hin: „Die meisten Entscheidungsträger erkennen nicht einmal, dass Schlafmangel ihre Leistungsfähigkeit reduziert. Weil ihre Produktivität dadurch sinkt, arbeiten sie noch länger und bekommen so wiederum weniger Schlaf. Das ist ein gefährlicher Teufelskreis und die Antithese zu intelligentem Management”

Via Dave Pollard, a quote by one of my favourite novelists, Thomas Pynchon: “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”