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 // …

I am not alone then … BW columnists Jack & Suzy Welch say that there isn’t a good manager in the world who doesn’t have a daily panic attack about the load of stuff he doesn’t know but should, the confounding challenges ahead, and the sheer impossibility of getting it all done … but it’s [...]

Via Euan Semple this quote by Dave Snowden: The only way to manage a complex environment is to apply simple rules. If you apply complex rules to a complex environment you end up with a mess.

Catchy title, huh? Via Dominic Basulto: a rant by Bruce Nussbaum on designers, citing this little gem: Innovation, design, eco-imagination, just call it whatever they want to call it and do your design thing. That’s the spirit … of business model innovators and designers, doing the design thingy.

Just a short reminder that CNBC is continuing to air their five-part Business of Innovation special as I’ve reported here. Episode two was particularly interesting from a business model innovation point of view, observing that even in the same business ecosystem, i.e. industry, there are companies that seem to get it while others (with similar [...]

Disorganizational Behavior Exploring why people and organizations act the way they do Interesting blog by Travis A. Sinquefield. Yes, I will follow his endeavours, if only because I suspect that many interesting organizations show pathological traits – even when they’re not dead yet. And employing and exploring innovative metaphors in organizational settings can give food [...]