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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? Magretta, 2002). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002).

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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy

mjvinnovation

In 2002, in his book Celebrating the Third Place , Oldenburg classified the “popular coffee shop chain” as a facsimile of a third space, citing its “high volume and fast turnover operations that present an institutional environment at an intimate level.”. Then customers started asking for places to sit and more food options.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Let's talk Rethink the future Digital Transformation Programs are one of the main triggers why large enterprises contact us. You need a geek for great tech. Smart business model. Be empathic and keep the end user in mind. Traditional (industrial) corporates feel the pressure to rethink their business models.

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Why Resilient Companies Embrace Strategic Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

According to the American Enterprise Institute , 89% of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 in 1955 are no longer on the list. Why Resilient Companies Embrace Strategic Innovation. Dec 15, 2014 | Anthony Mills. Many no longer exist. Of those 500 companies, only 61 still remain.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. It’s tools support enterprise transactions in all currencies, including emerging bitcoin, and even provides international financial transactions as well as working capital for businesses. So eBay bought fledgling PayPal for $1.5B And it worked marvelously.