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A recent Alex’s post on the HBR Bog Network …
The business model canvas — as opposed to the traditional, intricate business plan — helps organizations conduct structured, tangible, and strategic conversations around new businesses or existing ones … (more)
Nice and fruitful retreat at Schlossgut Gross Schwansee in Mecklenburg, (so well organised by Peter), with Alex, Alan, Trish and Greg for preparing and designing the new booklet on Value Proposition Canvas.
The VPC is a plug-in canvas that complement the Business Model Canvas (see previous post here). The tool has now been presented, experienced and tested many times during lectures and workshops. Last time, during the Business Design Summit (BDSummit) in Berlin
Business Design Summit, an exclusive event for 250 visionary leaders, executives,entrepreneurs, and consultants at Classic Remise (web) Berlin on April 19-20, 2013 … Great event! Great logistics! Great venue!
WHY IS THIS EVENT HAPPENING?
“Whether building new businesses or re-inventing existing ones, all leaders need practical strategies to navigate today’s ruthless business environment. You need tools, not talk.
A few authors, visionaries and world-class entrepreneurs recognize this. They are creating a new business toolbox and playbook to help you meet the demands of your market. They are developing tools that radically reduce your risk, increase your teams performance, clarify your strategy, boost your innovation efforts, discover what your customers really want, and more. … (more)
with great authors and speakers
Steve Blank (The startup-owner manual)
Henry Chesbrough (Open innovation)
Dave Gray (Gamestorming)
Rita Gunther McGrath (The end of competitive advantage)
Luke Hohmann (Innovation games)
Mark Johnson (Seizing the white space)
Lisa Kay Salomon (Moments of impact)
Stefano Mastrogiacomo (The lords of management)
David Sibbet (Visual meetings) and
Alex, Alan, Pat, Tim and Yves (Business model generation)
And several workshops, with great sketchers …
Wrap-up of the first day (by Christian Rangen) …
A blog post by Paul Hobcraft on the summit.
A recap by Mike …
BMGEN canvas in HBR via Steve Blank …
see the Steve’s blog post When Hell Froze Over (post) and his HBR article …
For the next month, The Harvard Business Review is providing free access to the cover story article, “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything. …
Nespresso example in HBR with ALex’s narrated version on Web:
The Portuguese edition for Brazil of “Business Model You” (web) is released today.
A nice photo of the Brazilian team who worked on the book …
a last interview prepared for a Samsung broadcasting company, managed by one of its casting manager Antony Kim, and conducted at NUS Enterprise Centre.
His team is preparing a documentary film about business models, scheduled to broadcast on March 20. The interview concerned sustainable management strategies of business models, the importance of developing new business models, and how to diffuse innovative pioneer spirit inside the company. The conversation was mainly divided into three parts: (a) successful patterns of business models, (b) strategies of innovative business models, and (c) approaches for developing new business models successfully.
sharing, discussion and thoughts on the research conducted by Natacha Hanshaw with Alex on the use of BMGEN
Both a qualitative and quantitative studies have been conducted: (1) Case Study Research, based on interviews in companies having adopted BMGEN; and (2) Online Survey Research of Hub and Workshop users, with a lot of statistics.
