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 // …

Alexander Osterwalder reminded me that there’s another conference (well, yes, on design thinking et al.) coming up:

Though this is not 100% related to business model design, I believe they promote the kind of tools & techniques that are necessary to come up with sound business models. I very much value their contributions of bringing design thinking to business.

Thomas Vander Wal (vanderwal.net), Jess McMullin (bplusd) and Victor Lombardi (noisebetweenstations) will speak at the Information Architecture conference. It’s a pity I can’t be there (and I can’t be in Cologne, too), as the venue is the HDM (Hochschule der Medien) in Stuttgart, which is only a small trip from here.

So I would be most grateful for any writeups and reports from both conferences.