Posts Tagged ‘strategy’

Innovation for and by multi-core businesses …

The KnowledgeForward blog notes this transcript on Microsofts innovation management practices (this is from a presentation Steve Ballmer gave at the Convergence 2007 conference in March). This talk also has some good thoughts that can be applied in regard to business model design and innovation – just think of the up-sides of being a fast […]

More peeks at innovation

Notes to myself, part II, via Mike Gotta: two articles relevant to those involved in a variety of initiatives related to improving informal learning, collaboration, knowledge management, social computing and innovation Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma by Charles O’Reilly and Michael Tushman: How do organizations survive in the face of change? […]

Eric von Hippel interviewed …

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 […]

BITKOM Studie Digitale Wirtschaft

Via Prof. Menno Harms: Die Studie “Zukunft digitale Wirtschaft” (pdf des Management Summary) von BITKOM und Roland Berger Strategy Consultants: […] untersucht die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der ITK-Wirtschaft, identifiziert aussichtsreiche ITK-Wachstumsfelder und formuliert Empfehlungen an Unternehmen und Politik.

Some strategy books …

… recommended by Sydney Finkelstein in the Wall Street Journal’s Startup Journal. I especially like his take on strategy and adaptivity: a company’s business strategy and management theory should be constantly evolving. “Standing still is the worst strategy of all,” says Mr. Finkelstein The list names also some of my favourites, among them Wikinomics (by […]

On Competitive Advantage

Via Rajesh Jain, an article with a nice human touch on how defining a firm’s capabilities, purpose, and niche (business model issues if you ask me) creates competitive advantage: Is it so different for the leader of a company to ask, “What is this company capable of?” than it is for an individual to wonder, […]

Total vernetzt

Das Handelsblatt mit einem neuen Beitrag in der Web2.0 Serie, das dabei kurzerhand auf Web 3.0 aufgebohrt wird … Rund um den Globus arbeiten Forscher am Internet von übermorgen. Das Web 3.0 wird intelligenter sein, schneller – und auch allgegenwärtig. Inhaltlich geht es u.a. um semantische Technologien, Fragen des ubiquitären Zugangs, Agententechnologien etc. … schön […]