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 // …

Charlene Li of Forrester Research develops some very interesting thoughts on the things (aka business model innovations …) Google might have in mind with their coming online payment system … one of them is paying for subscriptions and for new kinds of content created by individuals …

well yes, this may turn out to be another very smart move of Google, optimizing the business model of PayPal being only the start, then pushing entirely new applications … weighing in its good standing in search (for goods, aka Froogle), micro-publishing (Blogger), AdSense stuff and more