CoreToon: How Design Can Save the World - Core77
yay, futuriffic eco-utopias :)
The Packers are the only team in the league that is owned by the community at large. Instead of one small controlling group, or one individual owner, Green Bay and the surrounding community have bought shares in the organization. Every member receives voting rights and no member can have a controlling interest. Furthermore, they operate under non-profit status while releasing their balance sheet to the greater public. This has kept the fan base from feeling shut out--at a time when many teams have gone by the wayside or moved across country at the whim of spiteful owners.
"what a community can do when it gets behind something they believe in" ... way more than stubborn cheese-head stick-to-your-traditions - actually a lot of business model innovation thinking at play here.
And remind me to write a review of the Grateful Dead business book I have somewhere in my stacks ...
Snip "Her thesis is simple: the ONLY source of competitive advantage a company can have is its business model. A winning business model is proactive and changes with time. The consequence (rather than the business model) are great products and services."
As more businesses move online and more jobs come into existence based upon these moves, it's not a surprise that the number of people working from their home office is rising. Brick-and-mortar retail, office space facilities, and social network enthusiasts may not like it, but online and at home seems to be the place to be. Will it last?
Earmarked open enterprise, collaboration, opensource, organizational innovation, heterarchy, transparency, ...
Great presentation by Mark Fidelman - combining visual stunningness with "think-about-it"-hooks (or what else does systemic and holistic design of human systems do to you ...?)
via the wrap-up blog post of Thought Farmer's Social Intranet Summit (which actually collided with the Entereprise 2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt, somebody invent either cloning, time-travel or teleportation soon ...).
Insights on implementation strategies and paths worth to be taken in designing internal social business platforms.
The guy top right made me fall off the chair ;)
Earmarked #pathologies and #myheadhurts
earmarked methods / visualization and "finding pain points and / or businessmodel innovation arenas"