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 // …

Irving Wladawsky-Berger has an interesting post that relates complex organizational systems, innovation management (processes) and the use of social software in the enterprise (you know why I find this interesting …): [...] the opportunities to leverage the huge advances in technologies, standards and communications to enable us to look at a whole organization – an [...]

Another interesting podcast, here on IT Conversations an interview with Scott Berkun (“The Myths of Innovation”), get the mp3: How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead [...]

This looks like an interesting podcast interview by the Knowledge@Wharton team with WebEx’s Diane Davidson (mp3). When Google bought YouTube recently for $1.65 billion, the world of business sat up to take serious notice of social networks. Today, many companies are looking into how they can tap into — or develop — communities as a [...]

Introducing Bits, a new blog by the New York Times. You know me, I will definitely follow this kind of twisted business-technology stuff:

Nachdem die letzte Betaversion von Freemind doch noch ziemlich buggy war (und dadurch bei mir für einiges Haareraufen sorgte, und ja, ich weiß – ich sollte keine Betaversionen testen), haben die Entwickler schnell nachgelegt und die Beta 12 vorgelegt. Mein erster Eindruck ist nun recht positiv: Größere Fehler sind mir bisher nicht aufgefallen, da ich [...]

Chuck Frey on a new study on ‘innovation champions’ in corporations and research facilities, who claim that their biggest trouble is to find time to work on their ideas (anyone thinking about Googles 70/20/10-rule now? or about innovative ways to enhance knowledge worker productivity?).

Organizations that expect change to be a disruption of the status quo are going to be overcome by those organizations built to take advantage of constant change. Well, yes … hopefully. I am busy “evangelizing” and building bridges across the chasm (for social software in the enterprise …)