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 // …

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 Fields?
Jens Krause from the Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology of the Leeds University (Great Britain) will clarify what we can learn from current research on social network architecture with animals and humans and apply this to restructure organizations.