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 // …

Nice treat on a sunday morning – Lee has done a great job again (as always), good to see as well that the freemium model is paying out (ad supported free videos, ad-free hi-res versions for sale …)

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I am reading Cryptonomicon in my little spare time currently, so this video of Neal Stephenson speaking at Google is interesting (via Moonwatcher):

Gerd Leonhard spoke at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam – on “A New Music Ecosystem- Future Models for Music Creation, Distribution, Marketing and Selling”. The music industry is changing. Artists and developers everywhere are working on new ways of connecting fans and bands and developing new businesses along the way. In this PICNIC Special, the […]

Time again for a design-thinking post – got triggered by the Küchenradio: Simon Blake arbeitet an der D-School am privat finanzierten Hasso-Plattner-Institut der Uni Potsdam. Das “Design Thinking” will für große Probleme schnell praktische Lösungen finden. Wie das geht und was bisher gelöst wurde […] Here’s the mp3 (yes, german language). Then via Michael Altendorf […]

Via Paul Williams I learned that CNBC is doing another series on innovation, it’s aimed at C-level and I welcome this quite a lot as it stresses the importance (yet, Paul has some criticisms too). But these episodes are worthwhile anyway, and I appreciate the effort (btw, back then I wrote some posts about their […]

Now, I am more of a Bloglines person (no, that’s not me there), but still the newest work by Saachi and Lee of Commoncraft is nice: