CrowdSpring’s Contractual Model
Interesting new company, CrowdSpring, profiled here in Forbes. They want to create a new business model for graphic design. This story offers several lessons about the contractual component of business models.
The Economics of Video Game Production
Very cool chart here showing the economics of producing the best selling video game, Call of Duty: Finest Hour. This profile shows the economics of "real options" ….
Bud Selig, A-Rod, & the Moral Dimension of Business Models
According to USA Today, Major League Baseball Commisioner is agonizing about whether to suspend Alex Rodriguez for use of banned performance enhancing drugs. What does this have to do with business models? This case gets at the moral dimension of business models …
The “good enough” netbooks
The Economist notes here that Moore's Law is getting flipped upside down as customers choose "good enough" technology. Instead of buying new notebooks or desktops packed with more computing power, they are choosing "netbooks" with much less capability.
Got Business Acumen?
I heard a great talk a few years ago from one of the highest ranking executives at a major company. She advised the audience to think of the three words or phrases that you would want people to use to describe you when you are not in the room. Why when you are “not in…
