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 // …

Via Steve Wunker c/o Innoblog: “Business Model Innovation in Wal-Mart’s approach to banking” This is an interesting case of applied business model innovation (perfectly fitted for a coming consulting and coaching assignment I am currently preparing for), that shows many traits of disruptiveness (for the banking incumbents, that is): Wal-Mart is pushing new banking offerings, [...]

I’ve had enough spam in the last two days, that Akismet didn’t bother to filter out, so now I’ve pulled the plug and installed the reCAPTCHA wordpress plugin. Looks great and works as desired, nice work by the recaptcha folks.

Everything’s connected, especially in this little world of business model design thinking. Both Ralf Beuker and Alex Osterwalder pointed me to this video interview with Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman Business School (publishing a fine journal as well, see e.g. here, for BMID-design-coverage see more here or here). … where he talks about innovation, [...]

Frank Hamm hat nach deutschen Enterprise 2.0 Inhalten gesucht und nur wenig gefunden. Das liegt u.a. auch daran, dass viele der deutschen Akteure sich als Teil einer (internationalen, englischsprachigen) Community verstehen und deshalb ihr Blog nicht in der (geliebten) Muttersprache schreiben. Wie mein frogpond-Blog wird auch BMID als hybrides, d.h. gemischt deutsch-englisches Blog geführt. Manchmal [...]

Via Bob Sutton: BusinessWeek starts off another blog called Management IQ. Please, no shallow jokes about oxymorons and the like, I’ve had enough “business intelligence, har har” chatter for a lifetime. Read their mission statement and decide for yourself if you want to follow (RSS): How can you manage smarter? BusinessWeek writers Diane Brady, Michelle [...]

Ralf Beuker hat mich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass meine Blogroll zu gut versteckt ist, und wo er Recht hat, da hat er Recht … Ursprünglich war die Einrichtung der Blogroll-Seite anstelle der (klassichen) Unterbringung in der Sidebar eine Entscheidung für ein aufgeräumtes Erscheinungsbild der Blog-Startseite. Mir mißfiel die ellenlange Liste von Blogs, die durch Bloglines [...]

Good news, Renee Hopkins Callahan of IdeaFlow has added this little blog of mine to her blogroll, so this one goes out to the new readers that may come in here via IdeaFlow: Welcome.