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 // …
You don’t have to watch it all the way through as it is pretty long, but after about 10 minutes you can tell that their definition of Design Thinking is, for lack of a better phrase, all over the place. It is clear that the panel members all have different opinions, influenced by their background and motivations, of what Design Thinking is.
Video and snippet found in DesignSojourn, whose critique hasn’t turned me off – but rather by asking good questions reminded me about how fascinating this topic can be. (Proposed) solutions included too:
So How Can We Fix the Problems of Design Thinking? [...]
1) Teach Design Thinking with Design Doing.
2) Anchor Design Thinking as part of a larger holistic process.
3) Leave Design Thinking and managing the design process to the experts. Accept that, just like accounting, not everyone can do it.
4) Finally, call Design Thinking something else.
I am not sure if naming is important, as the object of the discussion is moving and evolving so quickly it may be fine with having a common language and “mental shortcut” to design thinking, whatever it may be?
After a day of collaborative prototyping exploring a new post-operative medical sensor, MBA students from Said Business School, University of Oxford, and students taking the MDes from London College of Communication reflect on their work together. The discussion ranges from the detail of some of the ideas the teams came up with, as well as the value of early prototyping in a complex project such as this.
The new space, which is intended to be a longer-term home, draws on five years of prototyping concepts for how collaborative teams might work together in four very different buildings.
“A few years ago (in the Sweet Hall days) we were trying to design our spaces to encourage students to move and change things,” Scott Witthoft said. “Now we find that those lessons have been learned – d.schoolers do all kinds of crazy things with the tools we give them – and we have had to design in a few more constraints to make Buiding 550 work well.”
Sounds very interesting – creativity needing bounds to flourish? And what frameworks (that structure the complex social settings of people collaborating) make sense? Can they be designed or do they emerge over time? Looks like some basic rules and defined infrastructure emerged as smart ways to go in the design of their new offices creativity spaces …
... another home on the internets for Martin Koser.
He's an independent enterprise collaboration consultant with frogpond most of his time, yet he's written more than 1.000 posts here since 2004.
Petersilie gefällig? podcast mp3 anbei (auch für Nicht-Süddeutsche verständlich ;)
Der Kultur-, bzw. Kunstbegriff ist brüchig geworden: Die Ökonomisierung der Kultur und die Kulturalisierung der Ökonomie hebeln die konventionellen Wertevorstellungen aus. Die Kunst verliert ihre Aura und die Kultur scheint mit den Erwartungen, die an sie gerichtet werden, überfordert zu sein.
Über diese Entwicklungen diskutieren die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Gesa Ziemer und der Soziologe Dirk Baecker.
reading @doctorow at the #guardian and the comments make my day, e.g. on iPad and stuff:
"It doesn't matter if a technology is a standard or not - the user is denied the choice to run software on a device they bought. It's not limited to Flash either (though Flash has been at the forefront of discussions). The way the terms and conditions apply, that's no Silverlight, no Java, and any other browser-based plug-ins and frameworks that can be conjured up. It also means developers cannot so easily choose frameworks they may prefer."
Diplomarbeit: Wissensmanagement Reloaded - Ein Ordnungsrahmen für den systemischen Umgang mit Wissen im Enterprise 2.0
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Konstruktion eines Ordnungsrahmens für den systemischen Umgang mit Wissen im Enterprise 2.0. Dieser Ordnungsrahmen zeigt Einsatzpotentiale und Handlungsfelder des Enterprise 2.0-Konzepts für Wissensmanagement systematisch auf und vermittelt ein Verständnis über die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Gestaltungsdimensionen Mensch, Organisation und Technologie im speziellen Fall des Enterprise 2.0.
Ergänzend zu den theoretisch erarbeiteten Aspekten wird der konzipierte Ordnungsrahmen verwendet, um die Eignung eines realen Enterprise 2.0-Ansatzes (Wiki-Plattform) für Wissensmanagement zu bewerten
re: #facebook 4 #twitter 2 // and I think this is spot on
"With low customer satisfaction, Facebook is vulnerable to the next great idea, the next social networking tool that provides a better, more unique experience that allows people to manage their social networks much like they do in the real world, with subtlety and nuance. Facebook has the incumbent's advantage, and the power and resources to make some needed changes, so it may continue to dominate. But I don't think Facebook dominance is a given by any means."
Great post and comments on business model models and visualizations, many quotes - here's only one from a commenter:
"[...] all models/frameworks simplify reality. So true. He also reminds us of the essence of what the business model canvas is after.
I believe one way we maintain integrity in the use of the model/framework is done just the way you have tackled this issue: precise definitions of terms. The “customer” is the one who pays. Yes, their may be many other users or beneficiaries of an organization’s offerings, but they are something other than customers."
Somehow there's no information about data plans for #denmark - somebody in the know knwo more (I better ask #twitter about this too)
Snip
"This wiki aims to collect information about pay as you go mobile phone plans from all over the world. Not just any plans though, they must include decent data rates, perfect for iPhone and Android smart phone travellers."
"Where do you think we are headed as far as information being leaked and disseminated?
To somebody concerned with keeping secrets, I guess my message would be that it could always get worse.
If we were to see some effective attack on WikiLeaks, either legal or technological, it’s entirely likely that this [document leaking] would kind of mirror what we’ve seen in the copyright wars over popular music and entertainment — in other words what you’ll see will be even more distributed systems for leaking. You can get to a place where there’s nobody to talk to, nobody to reason with. Stuff just gets out there."
Granted, some information (guess what?) does need to be private but I so like the interplay of #opendata and #technology
