Archive for April, 2007

BMID … Whose Job Is It Anyway?

Julie Fleischer c/o Innovation Ecosystem points out a big problem in corporate business model innovation, namely that it has no real homebase in organizations: Whose Job Is It Anyway? Referring to an article by Henry Chesbrough in the WSJ she collects some of the reasons companies are unable to create new business models: they have [...]

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Adaptivity and Change

Via Nimmy: “Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.” Tao Te Ching

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The Power of Networks

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RSS in plain english

Lee LeFever of Common Craft has made a little fun video explaining RSS, syndication and all in plain english (and it’s fun too, I like the way he switches slides Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who [...]

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Social Innovation Conversations: Yvon Chouinard

Well, folks, it’s sunday and I thought it’s time to blog about a business maverick and uncommon thinker (yes, even business structures and rules and all): Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia. Here’s an old (2006) conversation (mp3) with him from Social Innovation Conversations. Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard characterizes himself as a reluctant business man. [...] [...]

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Google business ecosystem

Gerade zurück vom Google Abend auf arte, da fällt mir noch dieser kleine Podcast auf, eineinhalb Minuten von CBS Inside Business (mp3). Few companies can do everything well, so they encourage others to grow up around them and fill in the gaps. Geoff Colvin reports that Google is building precisely this type of ecosystem. Nette [...]

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Die neuen Herren der Welt – ARTE Themenabend heute abend …

Auf ARTE heute abend: Google, Apple, Microsoft … Die neuen Herren der Welt 22.15 Uhr: Wer hat Angst vor Google? Die Dokumentation lässt Erfinder, Fans und Kritiker von Google zu Wort kommen. 23.45 Uhr: Die Silicon Valley Story Der Fernsehfilm beschreibt die Anfänge des Zeitalters der Personal Computer und thematisiert die Rivalität zwischen Apple-Computer-Chef Steve [...]

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