Category Archives: filter
twitter and the blog
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filtering when you’re small
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In a strange confluence of events, yesterday I: wrote a post about filtering and connecting when you’re a small enterprise; then Clay Shirky wrote about almost exactly the same subject in a post on algorithmic authority; then I ended up talking about the same topic with Paul Moynagh from the innovation consulting group Tough Problem. […]
implementation
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I just saw this on Merlin Mann’s twitter feed: The guy who worries people will “steal” his idea might better ponder why nobody “steals” his implementation. As I keep saying – ideas are cheap, and implementations are valuable. We need to find better ways to cycle through ideas rapidly. This reminds me of a post […]
Henry Chesbrough on business models
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Stefan Lindegaard has a post with links to a lot of good innovation related material, including an interview with Henry Chesbrough. The Chesbrough interview is terrific. He is best known for his research on open innovation, but a central part of that has been his work on business model innovation, which is the focus of […]
more on open education
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open education
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the future is in filtering
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Yesterday we had evidence of the importance of connecting, and today we’ve got some for filtering. Dominic Basulto points to a great graphic commissioned by Wired magazine and made by Density Design on his terrific Endless Innovation blog. Here’s the small unreadable version: And you can see the full version here. The map is based […]
splitting and lumping
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It’s hard for birders to see albatrosses. You have to a book a boat trip, they take all day (or longer!), and there are long periods of boredom punctuated by frenzied excitement when you run across birds – which you really hope you don’t miss seeing! And even if you’re not prone to seasickness, inevitably […]
news business model summary
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business models summary
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With all this recent talk of business models, it is probably useful to clarify what I mean by it – business model is yet another phrase that ends up meaning different things to everyone. I use the Henry Chesbrough definition, which splits the business model into six key issues (the summary is from quickmba.com): Value […]