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 // …

Experience Themes: An Element of Story Applied to Design View more presentations from Cindy Chastain. via contagious ideas

Massimo Vignelli from John Madere on Vimeo.

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not as a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover “what it wants.” Kelly […]

Nette Idee, Kleider machen Leute Professionals, oder? […] wir kommen eines morgens in das betahaus und dort sitzen Leute mit schwarzen Anzügen und glänzenden Lackschuhen an ihren Laptops Gleich morgen testen?

Video via Erwin Fielt Seizing the white space and the importance of business model innovation, earmarked one more time after downloading (while not yet reading) a range of articles from a – freely available – special issue of Long Range Planning on business model innovation. Patrick is not exactly happy about academic practices et al.: […]

Designing for peopleView more presentations from whatidiscover. Earmarked for inspirational methods.

Via Anders Sundelin: In his recent article in Long Range Planning, Business Models as Models, Charles explores the question “Are Business Models useful?” where he points out that they act as various forms of model: “to provide means to describe and classify businesses; to operate as sites for scientific investigation; and to act as recipes […]