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 // …

Now this only serves as link to an excellent article by Idris Motee, on the roles of middle-managers in corporate innovation, interesting comments as well. Recommended.

In Innovation Networks: Looking for Ideas Outside the Company, an interview of Knowledge@Wharton with Ex-Procter & Gamble vice president of knowledge and innovation Larry Huston explains the deeper rationale behind innovation networks: [...] future competitive advantage will depend on “innovation networks” – individuals and organizations outside a company that can help it solve problems and [...]

Via Armin Karge wurde ich schon vor einiger Zeit auf diese IBM-Studie aufmerksam, und weil ich zur Zeit an einem kleinen Paper rund um Change Management mit Social Software schreibe, ein paar Notizen zu “Erfolgsfaktoren für die Einführung von Innovationen” von IBM Global Business Services. Die Unternehmensberatung befragte in ihrer Studie “Making Change Work” über [...]

Note to myself, check it out, via Management IQ: Introducing the first edition of Deloitte Review: As a resource, Deloitte’s journal is pretty much what you’d expect: A few interesting and potentially useful bits of research, a reminder of basic tenets you likely already know, and enough management speak to make even the most hardened [...]

Listened to the new FT.com digital business podcast, interesting mix and I just love the english accents: Randy Mott on streamlining the technology at Hewlett Packard; John Roese, Nortel’s CTO discusses hyperconnectivity; Ade McCormack explains the IT concept of Agility; and the head of GeekSquad tells us why his agents wear white shirts and black [...]

Tonight I participated in a book presentation by Rod A. Beckström on The Starfish and the Spider (side event at the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin). He started off with his motivation for writing this book, 9/11. Yes, Al-Quaida is an archetypical network, and mapping this decentralized network is quite a task. Social Network Analysis shows [...]

Some notes from Tim O’Reillys keynote at Web20Expo Berlin … In the future, we’re going to see contextual-sensitive applications, for e.g. on the phone. This is also the world where things think, and it will be full of (RFID-)sensors. Jaiku is hopefully going to be an integral part of Googles phone strategy. Not much new, [...]