Posts Tagged ‘organizational-design’

Business Model Innovation: Seizing the white space

Video via Erwin Fielt Seizing the white space and the importance of business model innovation, earmarked one more time after downloading (while not yet reading) a range of articles from a – freely available – special issue of Long Range Planning on business model innovation. Patrick is not exactly happy about academic practices et al.: […]

Stumbled upon: Design for Innovation (Management) Success

James Todhunter collects critical success factors of corporate innovation management, i.e. the things that make a difference, Peter-Anthony Glick added another one in the comments: – Executive Leadership – Skill Development – Innovation Infrastructure – Network for Innovation Mentoring & Facilitation – Internal Promotion – Recognition & Reward for innovation Nice list but let me […]

4th Design Management Conference, Cologne

Via Ralf Beuker: 4th Design Management Conference, Cologne. Would love to be there but can’t. Next week is stuffed with web 2.0 goodies … Anyway some of the questions that are going to be discussed in Cologne look really interesting, I would love to read some conference write-ups. Design as an Initiator of New Business […]

Doing a Workshop in Bangkok for APO

Little posting activity right now, sorry about that. Anyway, it’s an really interesting project I’m on right now, and I will surely report some of the learnings. I am attending a workshop on business model innovation and design and knowledge management organized by Asian Productivity Organization (APO) together with the Thailand Productivity Institute (FTPI) in […]

Designing for Flexibility

Jeffrey Phillips calls for more adaptive structures ready for business model innovation … [we need to] create a corporate culture and bureaucracy that enables reorganization rather than inhibits or constricts it […] if it seems likely that rapid change and tough competition are likely, why not create an organization that is more nimble and can […]

Facharbeit zu Google

Via Bernd Röthlingshöfer bin ich auf Christoph Hörls Facharbeit zu Google aufmerksam geworden. Er schreibt: Wer in gut verständlicher und knapper Form mal wissen möchte, wer hinter Google steckt, was der Page Rank ist oder was es mit der 20-Prozent-Klausel auf sich hat, dem ist die Lektüre sehr zu empfehlen. Stimmt, vor allem der erste […]

Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren …

ist das bekannteste Zitat von Paul Watzlawick (hier der Eintrag in Wikipedia), der am 31. März in Palo Alto gestorben ist. Er war Kommunikationswissenschaftler, Philosoph, Psychologe und Soziologe und machte die Muster, Bedingungen und Störungen (ja, auch Abgründe) der zwischenmenschlichen Kommunikation zu seinem zentralen Thema … sein Werk ist elementare Grundlage für alle “Strukturgestalter” und […]