Here the slides for the talk I am giving at an event organized by Enterprise Ireland. I am quite honored to speak together with Prof Henry Chesbrough, author of Open Business Models... He is opening the conference with his talk, while I am concluding.
Text of Describe and Improve your Business Model
How to Describe and Improve your Business Model Openinnovation, Dublin, 24 Oct 2007 Arvetica, September 2007
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IBM Global CEO Survey Business model innovation matters and it is a top priority of CEOs
How Do We Describe Business Models Today?
Going to War without a Map Karl von Clausewitz (~1800)
Insufficiently Well Here CEOs 10 Managers 60 Here Staff 360 Ok
The Result
Could it Be Different?
It Exists in Business Process Modeling
A Management Toolbox for Business Model Design and Innovation
A Template to Describe Business Models 42941 downloads
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Multis Example REVENUES COSTS KEY ISSUES TO SOLVE ACTIVITIES PARTNERS RELATIONS OFFER CLIENTS CHANNELS total remanufacturing solutions of high end IT platforms manufacturing long term deep integration brand manufacturers customers base manufacturing IT brand manufacturers sales commission re-marketing inventory management systems knowledge manage secondary supply chain reverse logistics manufacturing inventory sales team brand manufacturers of high end IT platforms flat fee
The Process
find a way to play poker to unlock these models Prof Henry Chesbrough, Berkeley
5 Steps to Business Model Design & Renewal
describe existing business model
assess strengths and weaknesses
brainstorm on improvements & opportunities
turn new model into a project roadmap
1 2 4 3 VISUALIZE ASSESS RENEW PLAN 5 IMPLEMENT
implement project roadmap
Visualize
Visualizing
Visualizing Amazon.com
REVENUES COSTS KEY ISSUES TO SOLVE ACTIVITIES PARTNERS RELATIONS OFFER CLIENTS CHANNELS selling stuff on the Web IT infra automatized relationships mass customer data services Amazon.com data grid partners selling stuff Amazon.com warehousing & distribution distribution content management product selection product search marketing affiliates
Assess, Design & Renew
good ideas are widely distributed, nobody has a monopoly on innovation Prof Henry Chesbrough, Berkeley
Assessing Amazon.com
where are some of Amazon.coms highest costs located?
what are some of Amazon.coms core competencies ?
how could they leverage these competencies ?
how could they leverage investments ?
REVENUES COSTS KEY ISSUES TO SOLVE ACTIVITIES PARTNERS RELATIONS OFFER CLIENTS CHANNELS selling stuff on the Web IT infra automatized relationships mass customer data services Amazon.com data grid partners selling stuff Amazon.com warehousing & distribution distribution content management product selection product search marketing affiliates
Leveraging IT at Amazon.com
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Before joining Arvetica Alex founded Business Model Design, a consulting boutique specialized in business model innovation. Besides consulting the private sector he was also involved in building up a globally active NGO based in Thailand in the field of knowledge management, HIV/AIDS and malaria. Prior to consulting, Alex worked at the University of Lausanne, as an entrepreneur in the banking sector and as an online journalist for the major Swiss business magazine BILANZ. He holds a PhD and Masters degree of the HEC Business School of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Alex is an active member of the IMD based Open World Initiative (OWI).
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