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Business Model Innovation

Business Model Innovation

Business Model Alchemist What is core in your Business Model? Focusing on what a business does best, is often argued the easiest and most efficient way for companies to grow and be profitable. In the 1980s Tom Peters and Robert Waterman referred to this as "sticking to your knitting" in their classic book In Search of Excellence, a decade later Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad described the concept as focusing on "core competencies" in the Harvard Business Review article The Core Competence of the Corporation. The core is not only unique competences For me working primarily in intellectual asset and intellectual property management, the core is very often a set of innovations, unique technology, patents or developed software. Increasing levels of collaboration The trends in many industries are that markets show high dynamics in rapid development of new products, rapid commoditization of products and high price erosion. Questions to find the core Identifying what is core and what is not, is a great starting point for business model innovation. Also:

Innovation Leadership Network Ralph Ohr revisits the key issues today in innovation management. When we have a great new idea, we want to move fast with it. But we also want impact, and to get that, we need to make sure that we don’t accelerate before we’ve gotten the idea nailed first. When starting a lean startup process, our first hypotheses are often too precise. When we’re in discovery mode, we actually need to have pretty vague hypotheses to start – here’s how to build them. People often use tools as a substitute for the underlying skills that you need to be good at something. According to Tom Peters, whoever tries the most stuff wins. Wile E. Theaster Gates is an artist, and these days he is revitalising neighbourhoods through an artistic process. There is randomness and uncertainty in innovation. One of the goals of lean startup is to find your early adopters – here are some practical ideas for doing that. If we wait for something to be perfect before we launch it, we’ll never launch.

SaaS Metrics - A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters | This blog post looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal is to provide a detailed look at what management must focus on to drive a successful SaaS business. For each metric, we will also look at what is actionable. There is an updated (re-written) version of this post available here: SaaS Metrics 2.0. Before going any further, I would like to thank the management team at HubSpot, and Gail Goodman of Constant Contact, who sits on the HubSpot board. Let’s start by looking at the high level goals, and then drill down from there: Key SaaS Goals Profitability: needs no further explanation. Two Key Guidelines for SaaS startups The above guidelines are not hard and fast rules. In the next sections, we will drill down on the high level SaaS Goals to get to the components that drive each of these. Three ways to look at Profitability Other Metrics

Startup Biz Model BeyeNETWORK: The Future Role of Business Intelligence within the Depending on who you ask, there are 195 countries in the world today. While the majority of economic resources are controlled by a small, yet very powerful subset of global corporations and sovereign nations, the impact of their actions is felt by the entire world community. That the recent economic crisis was triggered by a variety of factors including faulty assumptions, greed, malfeasance, ineptitude, lack of oversight and a host of other causes is not surprising in retrospect. One of the most important revelations is how interconnected our world has become in the past 50 years. In his speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on March 10, 2009, FRB Chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted the significance of managing the systemic risk of the global financial system. If the global financial system were characterized as a living organism, the recent crisis would be depicted as a series of rapidly forming blood clots that disrupted the life force and risked the mortality of the patient.

Are you destroying shareholder value? - Rusk O'Brien Gido + Partners, LLC Most small businesses destroy shareholder value, rather than create it. This was the conclusion of a study by a well-respected business professor I recently heard lecture on the subject of small to mid-size business capital markets. The premise is simple. If your business cannot provide a return on investment equal to or greater than its cost of capital, it is destroying shareholder value. Is this value destruction true of most A/E and environmental consulting firms? To answer the first question, we need to define the cost of capital, specifically the cost of equity capital that would apply to the typical small businesses in the A/E and environmental consulting industry. Now the test… If a company has a fair market equity value of $10 million, it would need to generate a return of over $1.8 million each year to theoretically “create shareholder value.” The table below illustrates three examples. Third Annual Growth & Ownership Strategies Conference Set for November 6th – 8th

BI, Analytics, Reporting Center of Excellence (CoE) | Business Analytics 3.0 Data is moving from something you use outside the workstream (support-mode) to becoming a part of the business app itself. The growing challenge in corporations is how to organize for “data as a platform.” What is the right organizational structure that will help monetize data? John Wanamaker, considered a pioneer in modern advertising, said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the problem is I don’t know which half.” Today, we can say the same of enterprise investment in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and big data. Even after doing their best for over 20 years to build centralized, scalable information architecture, I found that only a small percentage of organizations’ data is actually converted to useful information in time to leverage it for better insight and decisions. The other challenge facing leadership is the rapid evolution of the data platform (see below.) Leadership Challenge How do you become a world-class data-driven firm? CoE elements include: Summary

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