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Table of Contents. This Blog Linked From Here Saturday, April 11, 2009 Table of Contents Below are the posts, videos, book reviews/summaries, articles and reports relating to business models and business model innovation, so far published on this blog.Posts Videos Book reviews/summaries ArticlesReports ShareThis 1 comment: AdelaJune 3, 2011 at 5:32 PMDear Anders,I am very interested in the way a manufacturing company rethinks its business model and starts presenting itself to the customers as a service provider.

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Load more... Newer PostOlder PostHome Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Anders Sundelin. 10 Business Models That Rocked 2010. Eight Models of Business Models, & Why They're Important. The term Business Model is one that gets thrown around a lot these days.

Eight Models of Business Models, & Why They're Important

Even though it might sound like a buzzword to you, it’s important to understand what a business model is, and how they are useful. One of the confusing things about the business model concept is that there are a wide variety of models of business models, and it seems as though everyone that talks about them makes up a new one. This can be frustrating if you are trying to figure out how to use the concept. Business Model Studios: 1.1: Business Modeling. Business model design. A business model describes the value an organization offers to its customers. It illustrates the capabilities and resources required to create, market and deliver this value, and to generate profitable, sustainable revenue streams.

Identifying and implementing a sustainable business model is one of the major steps towards creating a business. The process of identifying the business model should be preceded by that of developing a clear and succinct value proposition. A framework that has gained increasing popularity in the world of entrepreneurship is “Business Model Generation” by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. This article describes the building blocks of Osterwalder’s business model canvas, which is illustrated by the figure below. Source: Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. (2009). The steps below will help understand how to describe your business model using Osterwalder’s framework. Part I: The Offering Value proposition: Start by formulating your value proposition.

Part IV: The Finances. How to: Business Model Blocks. 16 blocks to visualize your business model All our business model examples are visualized with this set of 16 building blocks.

How to: Business Model Blocks

To give more insight in how this works, we give a brief overview of the different building blocks. Using a common, visual language enables you to easily communicate business models to different audiences, to learn from successful models in other industries, and to quickly generate new variations and business models of the future. Once you grasp the building blocks below, check out our business model tools to design your own business model in seconds. Share the results in your organization and let us know what you think about this method. Part I: Six players 1.

Defining Your Business Model. A business model isn't something you build from the ground up.

Defining Your Business Model

When management-types ask about a business model — as in, "So what's your business model? " — they really want an answer to a much more direct and basic question: "How do you plan to make money? " Behind that question is a lineup of other questions: Who's your target customer? What customer problem or challenge do you solve? During the 1990s, when the business world was buzzing with talk about a new economy and new business rules, people — even business gurus — seemed to forget the part about making money, and businesspeople sidelined the use of business models.

Staying in the black Sooner rather than later in the business-planning process, you need to invest a good chunk of time delving into the nitty-gritty details of your company's finances — your income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, budgeting, and all the details that can make or break your company's future. The Great Repeatable Business Model. Idea in Brief Really successful companies build their strategies on a few vivid and hardy forms of differentiation that act as a system and reinforce one another.

The Great Repeatable Business Model

They grow in ways that exploit their core differentiators by replicating them in new contexts. And they turn the sources of their differentiation into routines, behaviors, and activity systems that everyone in the organization can understand and follow. Powerful differentiations deliver enduring profits only when they are supported by simple, nonnegotiable principles and robust learning systems that drive constant improvement across the business. Differentiation is the essence of strategy, the prime source of competitive advantage. The sharper your differentiation, the greater your advantage. Strategy. October 26, 2011 Harvard Business Review By Chris Zook and James Allen The sharper your differentiation, the greater your advantage.

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Consider Tetra Pak, a company that in 2010 sold more than 150 billion packages in 170 markets around the world. Tetra Pak’s carton packages extend the shelf life of products and eliminate the need for refrigeration. The shapes they take—squares and pyramids, for example—stack more efficiently in trucks and on shelves than most cans or bottles. The packaging machines that use the company’s unique laminated material lend themselves to high-volume dairy operations. In studying companies that sustained a high level of performance over many years, we found that more than 80% of them had this kind of well-defined and easily understood differentiation at the center of their strategy.

You can find high performers like these in most industries. But differentiation tends to wear with age, and not just because competitors try hard to undermine or replicate it. LaunchPad Central Blog. LaunchPad Central Overview for Faculty & Mentors. Business Model Fiddle - Tour. Strategyzer: Your Business Model Toolbox. Strategyzer: Your Business Model Toolbox. Business Model Generation. Business Model Canvas Explained. Business Model Canvas Set to Explode. I’d just finished a workshop on Business Model Canvas about gaining clarity in large organizations, when suddenly the flood gates seem to have opened up a day or so later, for me to see beyond and piece more of it together in my mind.

Business Model Canvas Set to Explode

After swirling around in this maelstrom of articles, tweets, new publishing, advanced announcements I had to gain some high ground to recover my breath and think a little more. Catching my breath, here is my clarity take and prediction for the BMC. Ignoring lots of early warning signs Maybe I should have seen this coming earlier but sometimes you hear a distant rumble but you simply shrug your shoulders and get on with your own work. This week it hit me so I spent some time piecing together different aspects around the shifts taking place on the Business model canvas that have been going on in different parts of the world for my prediction: 2012 is the BMC tipping point year Firstly the Macro events- those outside our own control but happening now. Tools for Business Model Generation. Business Model Fiddle - Tour. Business Models Inc.