Gerd Leonhard spoke at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam – on “A New Music Ecosystem- Future Models for Music Creation, Distribution, Marketing and Selling”. The music industry is changing. Artists and developers everywhere are working on new ways of connecting fans and bands and developing new businesses along the way. In this PICNIC Special, the [...]
The design thinking meme is raging on, now there’s an article in the New York Times called “Design is more than packaging“. It’s good to see it in the Business section (remember 2005? BusinessWeek titled Tomorrow’s B-School? It Might Be A D-School) and I like the nice pragmatic end quote: “It would be overreaching to [...]
Nice image building up: McKinsey and SandHill surveyed the software landscape (Enterprise software customer survey 2008, pdf) and find benefit in the SaaS-model. Nicholas Carr analyzes that Software’s new battle lines are becoming visible, citing from the report: These trends – the growing acceptance of SaaS and SaaS platforms – are likely to create a [...]
Nicht jede Innovation kann aus den eigenen Reihen stammen … sagt auch Yahoo, zuletzt auf dem Open Hack Day 2008. Die Strategie der Öffnung führt schon zum weiteren Ausbau von APIs und Webservices. Gerade für Flickr ist das ja nett, mehr noch würde ich mir das für delicious wünschen. Andere Social Bookmarking Plattformen bieten da [...]
Time again for a design-thinking post – got triggered by the Küchenradio: Simon Blake arbeitet an der D-School am privat finanzierten Hasso-Plattner-Institut der Uni Potsdam. Das “Design Thinking” will für große Probleme schnell praktische Lösungen finden. Wie das geht und was bisher gelöst wurde [...] Here’s the mp3 (yes, german language). Then via Michael Altendorf [...]
