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 // …

schon wieder aus aktuellem Anlaß: Lee Bryant zur Big Society Initiative in UK: “We badly need new ideas and new approaches, especially since the gulf between rising demands on public services and available funding to meet them is growing ever wider. More than anything, we need approaches that go with the grain of human behaviour [...]

aus aktuellem Anlaß:

Today I’m at the OSMB conference and posting and twittering notes, most of those notes will be posted over at my frogpond Enterprise Collaboration blog (see e.g. Open Source Meets Business (OSMB) – Tag 1 and Trendstudie Open Source im Unternehmen, german language alas). Something with a more BMID-twist is the session “Collaboration Contagion – [...]

Via Netzpolitik:Socialcamp – Der Film von Helpedia: Zum einen ergeben sich schöne Einblicke in die Reize von “Graswurzelkonferenzen” für die gemeinsame Entwicklung von Ideen, Konzepten, etc., zum anderen wird auch deutlich dass Web 2.0 für viele Nonprofits noch keine zentrale Rolle spielt – die Potenziale bspw. für die Unterstützung der verteilten Zusammenarbeit werden noch nicht [...]

by Clay Shirky is an “examination of how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill” It’s about how the tools of the web enable people to organize without [...]

An interview with Satish Nambisan in India Knowledge@Wharton: In their quest to harness new sources of creativity, companies are reaching beyond their R&D labs to tap individuals and organizations outside their corporate boundaries. [...] the rise and implications of this network-centric approach to managing innovation. I blogged about The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating [...]

Time for a little weekend reader? With The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster & Smarter in a Networked World Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney want to provide a roadmap for “innovating faster and smarter in a networked world”. Sounds promising, communities of creation, innovation networks, open market innovation and crowdsourcing and more: To [...]