Archive for April, 2007

Web 2.0 is About Controlling Data

Read this interview with Tim O’Reilly in Wired published just before Web 2.0 Expo. He knows his stuff in and out, so this interview makes for excellent reading – even on a sunny sunday morning … Take this excerpt as proof, on platforms and network effects: [Wired News]: So you think that (control of data) [...]

Coopetition in “as a service”: Enterprise Content Management …

Mike Gotta thinks that Salesforce’s Koral move (Apex Content) puts them in competition with Cisco that recently acquired WebEx: At some point, Salesforce needed to respond to the productivity, content and collaboration platform Cisco can exploit given WebEx WebOffice and WebEx Connect. I would add that Salesforce clearly moves to take a stance against other [...]

Some strategy books …

… recommended by Sydney Finkelstein in the Wall Street Journal’s Startup Journal. I especially like his take on strategy and adaptivity: a company’s business strategy and management theory should be constantly evolving. “Standing still is the worst strategy of all,” says Mr. Finkelstein The list names also some of my favourites, among them Wikinomics (by [...]

Serendipidity in business innovations

Business Week has a nice article on the need for adaptive business design, i.e. business models, citing examples like Iridium, Friendster or the Segway. Yes, some innovations don’t take off as intended at first, but can be repurposed in creative new ways (sometimes even accidentally). Here, identifying new markets is one alternative, as Henry Chesbroughs [...]

Future …

The Future is Already Here, it’s Just Unevenly Distributed. William Gibson

Facharbeit zu Google

Via Bernd Röthlingshöfer bin ich auf Christoph Hörls Facharbeit zu Google aufmerksam geworden. Er schreibt: Wer in gut verständlicher und knapper Form mal wissen möchte, wer hinter Google steckt, was der Page Rank ist oder was es mit der 20-Prozent-Klausel auf sich hat, dem ist die Lektüre sehr zu empfehlen. Stimmt, vor allem der erste [...]

Die Kunst des Kontrollverlusts …

… ist der Titel des Eintrags in dem Mark Pohlmann dankenswerterweise (natürlich auch ans Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut!) seinen Beitrag für das aktuelle Heft von GDI-Impuls zur Verfügung (pdf) stellt: Im Internet haben die Unternehmen längst die Meinungshoheit über ihre Marken verloren. Wollen sie diese wiedergewinnen, benötigen sie «Mavens», eine Mischung aus Experten und Meinungsführern. Die [...]