Alex Osterwalder’s blog on Business Model Design and Innovation shows what a huge lever a blog and the growing community around it is. Alex is creating a visual thinking version of a business strategy book and he offers a pre-release “book chunk project“. He has started a new series on business modell examples (first issue: Google Search). Last but not least, I’ve found the review on Visual Thinking books useful.
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Visual Thinking for Business Model Design
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Work on stuff that matters and that creates value
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Tim O’Reilly brings it to the point in his great presentation for the Web 2.0 Expo Europe: The current crisis is not an investment bubble, but a reality bubble. So, his first robust strategy is “Work on stuff that matters”, i.e. work on the important challenges while making use of one of the deep trends, e.g. harnessing collective intelligence. His second robust strategy is “Create more value than you capture”. His presentation contains a lot of good examples for the application of both strategies and is by far the most interesting contribution of this conference that took place in Berlin last week.
Creativity and Simplicity
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.
A common viewpoint of the participants of a two-day colloquium at Harvard Business School that has been outlined in the article “Creativity and the Role of the Leader” of the Harvard Business Review.
One good point of this article is about “managing the commercialization handoff”, where the participants emphasized on the importance to connect idea originators with commercializers, “rather than trying to teach inventors to spot market opportunities”.
The discussion on the article (e.g. “Can you lead creativity?“) pointed me to the news that John Maeda is now head of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). John’s great inauguration speech is part of his new blog. I appreciate John’s attempt to make us better understand the “Laws of Simplicity” (Nice video on TED).
Be Commited, Build Interactions, Network Effectively
Monday, September 22nd, 2008The topic that Hubert Saint-Onge presented during the SIKM call last week wasn’t brand new. “Collaborative Networks and the New Enterprise” was e.g. already presented during KM World 2007.
Nevertheless, it’s always good to listen to a thought leader with 25 years of experience. There were three points which I’ve particularly appreciated:
- “Collaborative networks require commitment not compliance.”
Yes, to be successful in collaborative networks you need a personal conviction, the ability to build trust in relationships and to deal with risks. Commitment is being willing to do whatever it takes. - “Building interactions that are part of getting work done is more important than building knowledge bases.”
Yes, and please leverage technology to make judicious use of face-to-face meetings. - The fourth chapter of the presentation that outlines principles for effective partnering in collaborative networks:
- focus on the customer
- trust based interactions
- testing assumptions
- well-defined accountabilities
- attention to process
- appropriate elevation
Thank you Hubert for the presentation.
Conference 2.0 – FastForward08
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Thanks to Bill Ives’ blog I came across the FastForward08 blog. As not only Paula Thornton outlined this conference has offered a lot of conference 2.0-like interactions.
I just had a view at John Hagel’s keynote speech. He spoke about the growing pressure for enterprises to move from push programs (treating people as ‘passive consumers’) to pull plattforms (treating people as ‘networked creators’) to address the increasing power of talent and customers.
One of the key for this shift would be to use a new set of performance measures:
1. Return on Attention (e.g. “On the total attention I allocate what’s the productivity I receive?”)
2. Return on Information (e.g. “How much information about myself and how much effort did it require to gain how much value” or “How can we shorten the time between the information collection and value delivery”)
3. Return on Skills (e.g. “Am I able to retain and attract the most powerful contributors to my plattform?”)
So, according to Hagel the future of a company will be determined by the power of its plattform and the returns on attention, information and skills the platform generates for the customers and talents who are part of it.
Blogroll 01: Business Model Design
Saturday, December 30th, 2006Alex Osterwalder writes about Business Model Design and Innovation Management in his blog “Business Model Design and Innovation”. Why do I like his blog? Alex provides firsthand material (e.g. podcasts, illustrations) to outline the topics which are a matter of particular importance to him.
TED presentations available online
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006Jim McGee pointed it out to me, as a reader of his blog, that the presentations of the TED conference are now available to download (audio / video podcasts) under the new category “TEDTalks”. This is an excellent opportunity for those who weren’t able to attend the event itself. The speakers include Kevin Kelly, Burt Rutan, Iqubal Quadir, Steven Levitt, Mena Trott, Al Gore, Hans Rosling, and others.
Industrielle Ideenfertigung “made in Switzerland”
Friday, March 17th, 2006In Ihrem Buch “Die Ideenmaschine” gibt Nadja Schnetzler einen umfassenden Einblick in die Methodik der Industrialisierung der Ideen-Beschaffung, -Verdichtung, -Selektion und des Ideen-Managements. Das Buch ist anschaulich geschrieben. Jedes Kapitel fasst die Kernpunkte zusammen. Ein gelungenes Beispiel für ein
Was die Methodik ausmacht ist:
1) es wird nicht nach dem Motto “jetzt machen wir mal ein Brainstorming und da wird uns schon was einfallen” vorgegangen.
2) es werden durch den Einbezug von Externen tausende von Ideen geschaffen, verdichtet und selektiert.
3) das Beste ist: jeder kann sich selbst davon ein Bild machen, z.B. auf einer sog. “BrainParty” vor Ort in Biel.
Bei nächster Gelegenheit werde ich mir mal die Ideenfabrik vor Ort anschauen.
