There are always two parties, the party of the past and the party of the future; the establishment and the movement.
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business model Archive
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Momentum for heirloom products
Posted on July 30, 2010 | View CommentsAs is often the case with good ideas, they tend to pop up at several places at once, fed by trends and circumstance. To me this signals there is fertile ground for the idea, if pursued it can gain real momentum. So after I wrote... -
A BMG case study
Posted on March 3, 2010 | View CommentsBoth Robbert-Jan and I have been highly enthusiastic of Alex Osterwalder’s book Business Model Generation, the idea of which we discussed a few times before. In case you’re interested in seeing the method of BMG at work, Mr. Osterwalder has made a nice little case study here:... -
Music industry revolution illustrated
Posted on March 2, 2010 | View CommentsOne of the industries in which the fight between the ‘old world’ and the new is the most apparent, is the music industry. While record labels are suing the pants off of filesharing sites and iTunes isn’t making a ton of money even though everyone... -
The dynamics of innovation
Posted on January 6, 2010 | View CommentsI’ve been riffing for a few years now that creative firms should adopt a different business model. I don’t think billing by the hour is a very good way of sharing risk/reward. And I don’t think that splitting up innovation between engineers, designers and marketers...