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 // …

Forgive me the pun, but it’s so obvious, Google as role model again, now for innovation, Marissa Mayer explains it along 9 principles: * innovation, not instant perfection * ideas come from everywhere * a license to pursue your dreams * morph projects don’t kill them * share as much information as you can * [...]

Via Beu blog and Philipp come insights into how Google manages projects and communication internally, with a twist on Googles intranet and the applications employed, characterized by all kinds of collaboration and web 2.0 features. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company, explaining the many tools he’s [...]

Via LukeW: Guiding Principles of Googley Design: 1. Useful: focus on people -their lives, their work, their dreams. 2. Fast: every millisecond counts 3. Simple: simplicity is powerful. 4. Engaging: engage beginners an attract experts. 5. Innovative: dare to be innovative. 6. Universal: design for the world. 7. Profitable: plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business. [...]

Just one of the reasons why I dig Twitter and its surrounding (sense-making) ecosystem, it is mindful and laconic:

I don’t know, at first sight this seems like just another buzzword bingo event, but at close sight “Identity Management – Recognition replaces attention” offers several interesting speakers. Keynote speaker will be Richard Florida, while the accompanying site collects interviews with people like Mark Vanderbeeken of Experientia or Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of frog design [...]

OK, ich bin dabei – wie ich finde eine weise Entscheidung nachdem ich das BarCamp Offenburg leider komplett versäumen werde. Das Thema Netzmusik und Netzlabel ist ja zudem – anders als mein tägliches Brot – bereits seit längerem eine spannende Arena für Geschäftsmodellinnovationen (ja, ein immerwiederkehrendes Thema). Und da ich am Samstag ohnehin bereits in [...]

Das Open Source Jahrbuch 2008 der Technischen Universität Berlin hat einen interessanten Untertitel: “Zwischen freier Software und Gesellschaftsmodell”. Verspricht ein aktueller Einblick in die Gedankenwelt der OpenSource-Community zu werden, die ja für viel mehr als für quelloffene Software steht. Ein paar “Anspieltips”, die zumindest ich mir zuerst anschauen werde: In Kapitel 2 “Von der Innovation [...]