Monthly Archives: November 2009

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news business model summary

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The purpose of this particular post is to pull together links to all of the posts that I’ve done on the topic of new business models for journalism so that they are a bit easier to find. This is an important issue for news, but it illustrates a broader point. The key to adapting to […]

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the hardest part of innovation

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I was thinking about my talk from yesterday, and one bit that I just spontaneously threw in is probably worth expanding on. I spent a lot of this week marking assignments from my MBA students (who were an exceptionally good bunch this year). For the major assignment this year, I had them analyse their own […]

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What is an Innovation Culture?

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Here are the slides + audio from the talk I gave this morning for the UQ Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology‘s planning day. One of the things that they were working on was thinking about what they want their innovation culture to be, so Phil asked me along to give some thoughts on that. […]

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Cooperative strategy

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I’m buried in work at the moment, but I ran across this today via Venessa Miemis‘ twitter feed and thought I should share it – Towards a New Literacy in Cooperation in Business, put out by the Institute for the Future. The summary paragraph on the page that I’ve linked to doesn’t do the report […]

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If we were starting today, would we do this?

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If we were starting today, would we do this? A perfect question to ask for business model innovation from journalist Jason Fry in a recent post (hat tip to Mark Coddington). Fry looks at some of the issues facing newspapers these days, and decides that the entire model needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I […]

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Picking winning innovations

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Tim has written a bit on Charles Darwin so I thought I would follow along this them with another idea. As Tim says, the first big test of Darwin’s radical ideas on the formation of new species was a presentation to the Linnean society. Darwin’s supporters chose the Linnean society because of its preeminence in […]

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innovative shadow art

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I can’t think of a good innovation story to tell here, I just think this is really cool: Be sure to watch the last part with the piece that is simultaneously an eagle, a dragon and a lion. It’s shadow art by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly at Stanford. The page that explains this video […]

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the best solution to Search Engine Optimisation

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One of the ideas that I really liked in Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith is that to be successful on the web, you need to ‘change the game’ (my full review of the book is here). The idea here is that you need to create an entirely new category for whatever it […]

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focus on process, not tools

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I’m reading Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante at the moment, which is very good. It includes a number of pieces on culture, many originally from Village Voice or the New York Review of Books. Sante is a fantastic writer and there are a number of great lines throughout the book, but one just […]

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Jeff Jarvis on new business models for news

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I’ve talked a fair bit about business models for journalism, but Jeff Jarvis has thought about it a whole lot more than I have. Here is a video of Jarvis talking about the new ecosystem for news, and how to build successful, money-making news organisations: Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from […]

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the importance of executing ideas

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I’ve always been a fan of Charles Darwin. I think that he was a great scientist – a careful observer and deep thinker. But I still agree with many of Richard Lewontin’s points from his recent article about Darwin in the New York Review of Books. The main point that Lewontin makes in the first […]

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barriers to innovation?

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Here’s a question for today – what are your biggest barriers to innovation? The one that I run up against the most myself is institutional inertia. Risk aversion is probably the biggest barrier that I’ve run into in my consulting and research. But I’m interested in hearing about yours in the comments! (picture from flickr/reinvented […]

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