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

The BMI Lab Blog

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004). The object of innovation 2.

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Business cases are, necessarily, usually focused on successful efforts, researched after the fact and written from a management perspective. Changes in technology, consumer behavior and the actions of your competitors make that a near certainty.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com. How do Chinese innovators work?