‘English posts’ Archive

Business model innovation

Fast-moving competition, technology trend reversals, changing customer expectations? Business model innovation can unlock new competitive advantages Hidden away in long-established and even seemingly stagnant industries, they are clearly still there: the innovative concepts, revolutionary inventions and forward-thinking business models that have the potential to make billions. And the secret of such success? Ideas that enable […]

Warming up ‘da engines

In a week of frenzy (last days of Google Reader as we know it, RSS being killed for the uptiemth time etc.) … and looking back to what’s happened to dear services like Wave, buzz, delicious and more … it’s a good idea to have a cozy little place all for oneself. Warming up it […]

Back to mixing things up …

I want to reanimate my social blogging life (the story about how hard it is when you’re stuck and tangled up in NDA-ed consulting stuff will be told sometime …) – but during this perfect geek night it’s easy. Sitting in the shack, listening to extended Google IO keynotes and sessions noting that Google Music […]

Linux, ebooks and DRM (and CC-ed content), a short note

One of the reasons for 20 years of goodness – people collaborating to produce outstanding CC-ed content. See e.g. the PCLinuxOS magazine and – specifically for the Ubuntu Linux community – Full Circle magazine. Time to shout out it is for me, especially as they’re highlighting Calibre and other ebook software this time. Calibre is […]

20 years of goodness

20 years of goodness distilled into three minutes … cool as it can be: I remember making my first baby steps with Linux in the early nineties, thanks to a friend and early evangelist who showed me the sensation … and after some Xenteded Pause I reclimbed the wagon around Hoary times. No regrets, no.

Upcoming: Moddi @ Manufaktur

Ja, Moddi lives by the river … und meine Work-Life-Balance dreht wieder ins Positive, morgen abend in der Manufaktur, Schorndorf. Danke an Spreeblick für die Tickets!

Agile, yes – but really really Agile Management

Ah, feedback loops, emergence of patterns (of organizational pathologies), the need for mindfulness, systems-thinking-enabled and -aware managers people who work systems and really master complex responsive processes – literally all this and more in one presentation by Jürgen Appelo: Agile Management – Complexity Thinking View more presentations from Jurgen Appelo.