Economies
Economies

Compete by understanding the scale of scope

Seth Godin wrote an interesting entry called ‘Economies of small’ a few days ago. I have a view on the challenge of how people reason …

Reshaping open innovation for service industries

Services companies require different approaches to open innovation due to the different inherit models of sharing information during and after the creation of new service …

Towards a metaphor for innovation

Being in a position where I’m fortunate enough to work with students who are interested in studying the subject of innovation; metaphors are used to …

The London Effect and other perceptive influencers

Fear is universal. Fear of the unknown is universal. Fear does not know boundaries. Fear alters the behavior of humans. Humans are fearful. Humans are …

Feedback on the Product Line Practice Conference 2008 in Limerick, Ireland

Limerick is a great city that is filled with history and Irish pride and is the host to the 2008 SPLC Conference. I came here …

An emergent view on Design Oriented Innovation

The “design oriented innovation” approach impacts innovative organizations in many ways. Design by definition refers to the process of creating new artefacts, processes, organizations and …

The influence of socio-spill on social networks

I just arrived in Liverpool, UK from Madrid, Spain – it is the ultimate in language and cultural difference. I’ m still surprised by the …

Cycles of convergence and divergence

There are cycles of convergence and divergence in the computer, consumer electronics, media and other industries that are confusing the general understanding of “convergence”. Convergence …

Case of Standard Bank: social media news on the go

Standard Bank has created a social news platform for their Pro20 series. It has the works; video, photos and the ability to make comments. Check …

Business Model Emergence and the Open Source World

We are running the SystemicLogic Open Source Open Day event today. I’m reminder once again that the focus of Open Source Software is fragmented and …