Another podcast nicely suited for a rainy sunday morning is here at TechNation when Moira Gunn speaks with David Weinberger about his new book “Everything is Miscellaneous … The Power of the Digital Disorder”. Here’s the mp3, ca. 21 min. An interesting conversation about internet-boosted information architectures, complexity of “information spaces”, tagging, metadata and classification, […]
Via Experiantia I learned about this interview with Eric von Hippel by Gartner research fellow Tom Austin: […] to discuss his new book: Democratizing Innovation. This seminal book – based on a broad base of academic research – explores how users have been driving the innovation process for centuries. It also discusses opportunities that organizations […]
Endlich ein bisschen Abkühlung und ein bisschen Realismus, es war ja auch nun wirklich zuviel. Thomas Gerteis im Interview in pressetext, sehr schön u.a. das hier: pressetext: Für welche Unternehmen eignet sich Second Life grundsätzlich als Werbeplattform und welche Branchen sollten lieber die Finger davon lassen? Gerteis: Der Knackpunkt ist, dass es momentan noch keine […]
Harvard Business’ IdeaCast (get the mp3) sat down with Adrian Slywotzky discussing: The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs. In the interview, Slywotzky explains how managing strategic threats as forms of risk can not only diminish their impact, but also transform the threats into new growth opportunities. More information on […]
Well, folks, it’s sunday and I thought it’s time to blog about a business maverick and uncommon thinker (yes, even business structures and rules and all): Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia. Here’s an old (2006) conversation (mp3) with him from Social Innovation Conversations. Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard characterizes himself as a reluctant business man. […] […]
Just a short reminder that CNBC is continuing to air their five-part Business of Innovation special as I’ve reported here. Episode two was particularly interesting from a business model innovation point of view, observing that even in the same business ecosystem, i.e. industry, there are companies that seem to get it while others (with similar […]
