business models

Beyond Entrepreneurship

by Brian on 08-07-2010

in business,creativity,web

A few years ago I started developing what I call the “open conceptual enterprise.” The idea is that we need to rethink our basic assumptions about business not just in the context of different kinds of businesses but in the context of all types of human enterprise. By “enterprise” I mean the general impulse to [...]

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An Inverted Perspective on Publishing

by Brian on 03-15-2009

in media

Two good pieces in the last couple of days: one by Clay Shirky and the other by Steven Johnson. They both make the same basic point: much of the supposed innovation in recent decades meant to perpetuate the old business models rather than actually come to terms with emerging realities. Here’s Shirky: Revolutions create a curious [...]

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