Online White Board for Design

Here is another interesting tool, an Emerging Tool for Real-Time Business Model Design and Exploration that Alex Osterwalde posted and demonstrates on his blog, Business Model Design and Innovation. His blog links “strategy with design thinking through examples and concepts of strategic design, business models, environmental scanning and business innovation.” The post shows the beauty of video blogging for marketing promotion.

I have seen a number of semi-intelligent white boards but this extends the concept. Thanks to Tomoaki Sawada for pointing this out.

Comments

[Tomoaki Sawada]

Bill, thanks for referencing my comment, will keep your informed whenever I find interesting articles. I have been reading latest Systems Journal of IBM on activity-centric computing that covers Model Driven Business Transformation research

IBM is aggressively pursuing now with the project name called VIOLA at IBM research)

VIOLA means "Value-Centric, Model-Drive Business Transformation", that ties business modeling (in Real business model, (not business process modeling)

You can see description of VIOLA at
www.research.ibm.com/jam/violapaper.pdf
with more details on Modeling Approach at
domino.watson.ibm.com/library/CyberDig.nsf/papers/BB26C4AA0EA84ECC85257184005240A7/$File/rj10381.pdf
and its impact at
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/444/cherbakov.pdf

Referenced systems journal also covers activiti-centric computing paradigm. As you know well, Activity Explorer that are enhanced with the announcement of Lotus Notes V7 is the precursor for Activity Centric Paradigm.

My simple formula to summarize these trens in activity centric computing arena looks like below

BPMS (in SOA) = improve and automate Pre-determind process and provide realtime capability of
creating new process and changing business ruels in responding to market changes)
+
Activity (UAM supported by Activity Eplorer combined with Social Software on Wiki Based system to improve Artful Process )

BPMS contibutes to increase the efficiency in 40 percent of time spent by Professionals ( namely “transactinal work” activity ) and “Activity” enhance productivity of “innovation process” in the remaing 60 percent of time (”Tacit knowledge work” and Transformational work (collect and transform teh data into the “meaning”. Combined capability of above quation witin the enterprise is the source of Oraganizational (Enterprise level) productivity.

I have no doubt that People side of the equation is more important than the other.

I am looking for the way to unite these two side of activities into one. In this respect, I am expecting “Guided procedue” concept , from BPMS side that incorporate “People intiated process = activity” to make INTEGRATED PROCESS. Swashup (Semantic Web services mashups) project led by E.M.Maximilien of UAM team is to represnt semantice of “Human activities in “every day process” that can be exposed as “business services” to others making it to be easily identified automatically on the net and can be plugged into “my activity folders” automatically and re-used as best practice.

I recommend you to read latest systems journal at your earliest convenience.

In addition, I think you may be interested in reading following 2 presentations that IBM is pomoting internally to accelerate “process of innovation” using social networking for social sharing.

Innovation Trends and Levers
www-5.ibm.com/be/pdf/en/events/nextlevel/nextlevel_innovation_management_ginzburg.pdf

Applying Innovations
www-5.ibm.com/be/pdf/en/events/nextlevel/nextlevel_applyinginnovation_harris.pdf

Appreciate your patience with reading very lengthy comments. Best regards