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 // …

Another addition to my collection of writings on creative working spaces and the future of work (and how to design for it) – video from Stanford’s d.school: 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 […]

Via Ton Zijlstra at FabLab.nl and interdependent thoughts: This 14 minute film was made by Elmine Wijna, based on 2 days of filming in 2 FabLabs, and doing interviews with both visitors and staff of the labs.

Ok, this is more of a pathetic test post to make a point. Posterous seemingly has broken various implicit contracts with me and other users, and while I normally would have used their services for my little video earmarking and microblogging I thought it’s an idea to see if a regular blog post can do […]

Morgen fängt sie an, die re:publica (und mein Mitmach-Programm ist geplant) – und mitmachen ist wichtig: Aber letztlich sind wir Teil eines sich entwickelnden neuen Systems. Und wir können uns entscheiden, ob wir nur zusehen wollen, was passiert, wie andere entscheiden. Oder aber wir entscheiden uns, selbst an dieses sich neu bildende System mit Hand […]

No, this isn’t about “taking joy in Microsoft’s struggles” – why would I? Their products determine the working environment and corporate daily life of billions of people (Sharepoint, Word, Excel et al. ). But this is instructive for innovation managers, people thinking about the innovation of organizational systems and processes, and consultants alike. Dick Brass, […]

Patrick Whitney explains the value of design for business and innovation–in under four minutes (from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo …). Not exactly an MBA style approach – which makes it so inspirational, yes.