Chris Anderson, editor of Wired is presenting some of the ideas that are due in his fortcoming new book on the concept of “free” in the old and new economies. There’s a long excerpt from the book, a video and sidebars about the economics of giving away, overall a nice read: [...] this business model [...]
Via Interessante Zeiten: ein Porträt von Tom Peters (der übrigens hier bloggt bzw. bloggen lässt) in Spiegel Online: “Chaos-Guru im Maßanzug“. Treffendes Porträt, das auch die Schattenseiten dieses Charismatikers nicht ausspart: Worin seine Kernthesen genau liegen, ist nicht immer leicht auszumachen – der große Systematiker ist Peters nicht. Nun ja, ich habe seine Bücher trotzdem [...]
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired (now that’s a cool job description) has written an intriguing essay called “Better Than Free“, where he probes the question of how thoughts, ideas and words that can be so easily copied can still have economic value: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super [...]
Ad Emergenz in Technology Review: Was ist eine ausgereifte technische Lösung? Anstatt jedes aufregend blinkende Klötzchen in die Hand zu nehmen und zu schauen, was man daraus noch alles bauen könnte, könnten sich Infrastrukturplaner und Technikentwickler ja auch überlegen, mit welchen Klötzchen sich ein bestimmtes Problem am elegantesten lösen lässt. Aus abgefahrenen Gelenkbausteinen allein konnte [...]
Didn’t blog that much from BarCamp Mitteldeutschland, some posts on frogpond, where I will also publish my very own wiki-session-slides, but now one highlight: Tina Pickhardt, Robert Basic und Cem Basman live on stage – interesting topic: life-work balance for web workers: “Investing in the start-up vs. investing in family time” Tina: even VCs don’t [...]
An interview with Satish Nambisan in India Knowledge@Wharton: In their quest to harness new sources of creativity, companies are reaching beyond their R&D labs to tap individuals and organizations outside their corporate boundaries. [...] the rise and implications of this network-centric approach to managing innovation. I blogged about The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating [...]
Next up in my little series on inovation, Mike Neiss hits the nail on the head too, citing from a Center for Creative Leadership survey and report (pdf) that holds: “Senior executives face increasingly complex challenges that involve organizational changes, market dynamics and talent shortages. One popular response to increasing complexity is to lean on [...]
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