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 // …

Fine interview with Sam Lucente, Hewlett-Packard’s director of design and brand experience, in BusinessWeek on Innovation and Design at HP, noting IMHO the importance of (a) a wider perspective on innovation and (b) orchestration in spite of organizing, i.e. organizational work to drive innovation: Orchestration of many players in business ecosystems, i.e. value nets that […]

Read this online edition of the current Philips magazine as of October 2005 on design leadership, innovation, design as tool and mindset for visualising the future and more … like the tales of ‘wild-cat dreaming’ initiatives that examined possible directions for products, environments and society. Notice also this little gem quote: Thinking about potential future […]

David Weinberger is putting together some lightly written notes on the state of the telecom industry and the emerging (technology) trends … he’s been listening to AT&T’s CTO at Harvard. Lesebefehl!

Nicholas Carr’s thoughts on the Oracle/Peoplesoft Merger are interesting, questioning the popular notion that mergers of software firms are horribly difficult, if not inherently doomed. Mainstream thinking holds that because the value of software makers lies in the creativity of their “human assets,” […] you couldn’t apply tough management discipline in quickly consolidating two organizations […]

and may I add that this may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory at best … read some of the reasons at BusinessWeek for one: It was no accident that Grokster and StreamCast were the defendants in this case — they were handpicked by Hollywood because they made the content industry’s case so easy […]