Making Sense: One of the Components of Achieving Holistic Management.

Can You Make Sense of the Enterprise One of many reasons for why many enterprises experiences that organizational change projects fail and their respective leaders and managers only discovers that there are significant problems with the way the members of … Continue reading

A week in Tweets: 2-8 January 2011

Another collection of Tweets and links from a cold, wet summer in Australia: usual categories, of course, after the usual ‘Read more…’ break:

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and suchlike:

greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Six: Strengths and weaknesses http://wp.me/p7ejN-8d <interesting #entarch series – an adaptation of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’
vernaallee: RT @profhamel: […]

Quirky – Socially Developed Products

A Socially Developed Product™

Quirky-infographic

Inventors pay $99 to submit their idea to the this co-creation platform.  Then the community of designers with co-design and improve the product.  Then Quirky helps the inventor sell the product and if enough people buy it – then it will go into production.  Revenues from the “e-shop” are shared with the community of influencers.

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Pay with a Tweet – A social payment system

Sell your products for a tweet.

In today’s world the value of people talking about your product is sometimes higher than the money you would get for it. ‘Pay with a Tweet’ is the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social network.

It’s simple, every time somebody pays with a tweet, he or she tells all their friends about the product. Boom.


Click here to create your download button.

I really like this business model.   It seems really obvious too.   Content producers or coupon creators could promote their other products and business by charging people with a tweet.  You can create a “sell” button that will allow tweeters to download content – but I would like to see this model extended to other things.

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People, assets, relationships and responsibility

A great meetup yesterday with Shawn Callahan (@unorder) and Kevin Bishop (@kevinbishop) of Australian consultancy Anecdote, and their upcoming launch of Zahmoo – a new web-based tool to manage stories and narrative-knowledge, for organisations, communities and families.
Over lunch the conversation wandered onto my work on enterprise-architecture and the Enterprise Canvas, and my latest book Mapping […]