Our upcoming book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (25% pre-purchase discount) is literally on the way to the printing press – time to summarize t...
Last Monday I gave a three hour lecture on Business Models Beyond Profit at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. It was in the context of impACT, a pan-European student competition in social entrepren...
I always love seeing young and interesting companies adopt the Business Model Canvas. So I was very happy when renowned Dutch music upstart SellaBand used the Canvas to visualize their Business Model...
In this blogpost I explore the close relationship between business model and business plan. A business plan’s main role is to plan, outline and communicate a business (or not-for-profit) project and ...
Business models are designed and operated in a specific environment. Developing a good understanding of this environment helps you conceive better, more informed and likely more competitive business ...
Business Model Innovation is a hot topic these days. I thought I'd post a note about some of my fellow bloggers who focus on the topic and who are friends or colleagues...Anders Sundelin who launched...
Together with my former PhD supervisor Professor Yves Pigneur (and now my co-author), I have long advocated the utility of some kind of computer aided business model design tool (see here) – in fact ...
No, the book is not finished yet, but we launched a 200-print unfinished limited edition for the Business Model Knowledge Fair in Amsterdam last Friday. The limited edition, which was messed up by th...
As many of you know, I am a big fan of design thinking applied to business. I believe there is a lot we can learn from designers and their tools to improve the way we innovate and manage in companies...
Interesting interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails about the music industry, notably about business model innovation (hat tip to Peter Froberg of Freemium.eu). They've done business model inn...
I'm excited to announce the Business Model Knowledge Fair and Book Launch Party on June 19 2009 in Amsterdam (register now for early-bird rate). Though we still have some path to go to finish the bus...
At each of my workshops we usually discuss what the obstacles to business model innovation are in companies. I thought it could be interesting to open up this discussion to the Web through my blog. P...
Currently I am working our upcoming book "Business Model Generation" on a section about ideation: the art of generating innovative business model ideas. While working on this section I realized that ...
I am currently keeping my blogposts to a minimum, because I am focusing on book writing and delivering a small number of keynotes and workshops. However, I haven't stopped experimenting. During the l...
Book publishers, I think your business model is expiring! If you don't update it now, you will suffer the same fate as the music industry: "cluelessness" of what to do to fight steeply declining reve...
A couple of posts back I wrote about a simple, fun, but silly exercise to think out of the box when it comes to business model innovation: the silly cow exercise. I asked people to submit their own s...
Many of you have seen my presentation "business models matter", which shows how the music industry has been slow to react to a changing industry landscape. Here a video explanation by Mike Masnick fr...
Innovating during an economic downturn might seem counter intuitive at first sight. However, it is precisely the right moment to do so, as long as you already prepared your company for survival durin...
Last Friday I was part of the committee for a Masters Thesis defense on business model design at the HEC Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Boris Fritscher, whom I previously mentioned on this...
In MaySeptember 2009 Yves Pigneur and I will bring a new management book to the market, which will be a beautiful manual for entrepreneurs and executives about business model innovation.The interest ...
The cow exercise is something I regularly do at my keynote speeches and workshops to trigger business model innovation thinking. It so far away from the audience's daily business concerns that it eas...
There are a lot of good management books out there and I'm looking up to many of the leading authors. I particularly admire thinkers like C.K. Prahalad (Bottom of the Pyramid), Gary Hamel (Future of ...
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, recently made a plead-for-donations for his extremely successful website (hat tip to Victor Lombardi). Dear Jimmy Wales, this looks really desperate and I think it's t...
This week I was in Madrid to work together with XPLANE, the leading company when it comes to visual thinking in strategy & business. XPLANE will help me with the visuals for some examples and process...
Boris Fritscher, a brilliant masters student of HEC business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, has picked up on using software to sketch out business models under the guidance of my co-author, Profess...
Innovation regarding the way we run and manage our companies will be a key requirement to foster business model innovation. Financial Times management writer, Stefan Stern, and Peter Marsh wrote an e...
I have two public workshops coming up, besides my work for companies and conferences. It would be a pleasure to meet you there! There is an attractive "early bird rate" until December 19.Public works...
Have you ever "sold" a business project to your management or a venture to a financier? Did you ever happen to use PowerPoint or a similar presentation tool? Probably yes. Well, how much time did you...
John Gapper wrote a very interesting opinion piece about Detroit’s car industry in the FT this week ("Detroit tries to fool them again" on FT.com). He clearly outlines why he thinks the bailout of th...
I don’t have a book, let alone a bestseller, and I am not faculty at a prestigious business school. Still, my approach to business model innovation is spreading around the world. People are intereste...
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