In addition to my to earlier posts regarding decentralization……I found this valuable resource about “Open Source Leadership”, and other interesting topics related to “design thinking”
I’m thrilled, though I know – of course – that not everything what’s open or decentralized is good 
….but I think it’s a necessary path for most companies to follow , at least to try….
Again, it requires a different mindset.
I think so.
Although I think that “Blue Ocean Strategy” is “old wine on new bottles” they got a major point when saying that you should not look at how you can get a piece of an already existing marketplace – create new ones.
In Europe we’ve seen several examples on how well known market players have lost market share – almost dropped out of the marketplace. One nice example it the aviation-industry where we over the past few years have seen completely new players. And why?
Because the best breed entrepreneurs is looking on the possibilities with completely different eyes. Or what?
Skype is a good example – the technology is “old”, not invented by Skype, but the serviceoffering is new. And their businessmodel is interesting, execution is breathtaking.
I know its old news when saying that disruptive move’s in the valuechain is unpredictable – but I think there are a lot of companies that need to open their eyes and I think design is one of the “tools”
The development in the technological area is an another……..
Found this core77 post on the Design Council’s new campaign Dott07 and its new program director John Thackara. I got to see the behind-the-scenes of this campaign a little ago while at the Design Council during an informal presentation and I think that it is quite clever for them to pick such a respected and media-friendly designer as thy tends to be very anonymous in their campaigns.
The role of the Design Council is also quite interesting as they do not come up with design solutions per se (apart from the RED team for which i worked but which represents a small percentage of the organisation) but rather promote design as a meaningful process that can benefit a number of industries. Promoting the design of public services has always been one of their poster definitions and i often think of how much does service design have to do with our understanding of what services are. It feels like talking about “stuff” and “things” for me sometimes, it sounds pregnant with possibilities and i like the sound of “less-stuff-more-things world” but what could this look like? How much are people willing to give up the “stuff”? Maybe it would be a good idea to start listing the good, and the bad of services we all know so we can discuss and identify areas which might have potential for all the service designers out there…