Archive for December, 2007

Paying lip service to innovation

I’ve said it before, here’s another take, go and read the whole piece by Jeffrey Phillips: Will it require a dire situation in every company before they remake themselves to provide the products, services and business models people actually want? Why is most management action taken in periods of desperation rather than the result of [...]

AAL im Speaker’s Corner?

Hehe, Open/Mass Inovation und AAL-Prinzip bei Robert Basic – ob das wohl allseits wachsame Distanzgutachter (TRM) auf den Plan ruft? Also mal sehen, was hab ich dann so als E-Content-Distributionskanäle: – Blogs 1, 2, 3, 4 – Microblogs (Twitter, Jaiku, …) – und natürlich das ein oder andere öffentliche und halböffentliche Wiki Und nun auch [...]

Big company innovation …

… well, “is it possible and why doesn’t it happen more often?” – that’s the topic of this podcast (mp3) with Bill Taylor, co-author of “Mavericks at Work” and writer of the “Game Changer” blog at HBS. They are discussing his post on cross-boundary disruption, asking why big, successful companies, with vast technological and financial [...]

Discussing the long tail …

with futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard, get the mp3. In his book, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, states that “our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of “hits” (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward [...]

Software for business innovation

Umair adds another perspective on the Sexy Enterprise 2.0 debate: Enterprise software is lame because it offers little potential for revolutionizing anything – market space, value propositions, industry economics, strategies, etc. That’s why software players are able to create less and less value – the marginal gains to software are shrinking because “enterprise software” only [...]

Future jobs, now, today!

I like this, not only from a e-learning 2.0 perspective – but also from a more general future knowledge work perspective: [...] what jobs, specializations, and careers we may eventually discover or are even starting to evolve in organizations. My exposure tells me that these general functions are starting to surface. Although the jobs are [...]

Food for your ears … and the thing in between

Well, I said “not on a regular basis“, thus I may put out big posts from time to time. Here’s one of them, a collection of podcasts that somehow catched my eye: Starting off with Episode 082 of the Project Management Podcast, called Monkey Management for Project Teams: Wait… what’s that on your back? Could [...]