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 // …

… to build »Communities« around their technologies … had some of this already.

notice this

[…] Open source is having a [highly] productive role in driving innovation, driving down cost”

and this

By commoditizing technology, markets are built up, […] commodity markets are the best markets in the world […] markets such as financial services and telecommunications, where services are commoditized but lots of revenue is generated nonetheless. Commodity produces perpetual demand, […]

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