Comments for Bas van Oosterhout's Business Innovation Blog

Comment on Business Model 2.0: Manage your Value Chain by Dirk

Dirk — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:24:44 +0000

Bas, after our contact earlier this year i have been very busy with my study.

With this comment i want to say that i have used your presentation about business model innovation & value chains on our blog. It is a blog which is used by us to keep eachother posted about developments in the field and interesting things.

I hope you do not mind. If so, please let me know and i will delete it.

Greetings,

Dirk

Comment on How to succesfully manage your innovation portfolio? by Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:11:09 +0000

Beste Bas,

Vandaag heb ik voor het eerst een bezoek gebracht aan je website via futurelab.net. Met veel plezier en interesse heb ik verschillende posts van je gelezen. Vanaf September ga ik de master in imagineering volgen. Deze studie houdt zich bezig met de vragen waar jij je op je blog over uitweidt. De studie gaat hand in hand met het uitvoeren van onderzoek voor een bedrijf met als resultaat een Business Transformatie Plan. Ik vroeg me af of jij nog een hint/een idee/een tip hebt voor mijn zoektocht naar een goed bedrijf?

Met vriendelijke groet,

Dirk Hens

ps. Meer informatie is te vinden op http://www.nhtv.nl –> imagineering of http://www.imagineering.nl

Comment on Business Model 2.0: Manage your Value Chain by Bas van Oosterhout

Bas van Oosterhout — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:32:33 +0000

Florain,

Thanks for noticing the link did not work properly. Actually it should have linked to value-chains.org. I have changed it.

Regards, Bas

Comment on Business Model 2.0: Manage your Value Chain by Florian Hollender

Florian Hollender — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:40:55 +0000

Bas,

thanks for your insightful article! Being aware of one’s position in the value network up and down the value chain and creating new opportunities through taking a perspective that takes the whole business model into considerations sure is the way to go.
By the way, you maybe want to fix the link, I guess it’s supposed to go to value-chain.org.
Regards
Florian

Comment on The Importance of Business Model Innovation by John Bushelle

John Bushelle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:14:49 +0000

Business combinations, merger, acquisition, and joint venture are not easy to execute and they most often don’t live up to their expectations. There have been several studies done on mergers and acquisitions announced in the last 20 years and in well over 60% of the cases the synergy was not realized. When synergy doesn’t materialize the acquiring company ends up damaging shareholder value because premiums paid to take a significant equity stake in a target company are not recouped. However, by understanding a company’s motives for buying, selling, or partnering a business, how the decision fits in with their overall corporate strategy, and the careful identification of the characteristics of an ideal target, the chances of success can be greatly increased. effective post merger integration is a big key to success.

Comment on How to succesfully manage your innovation portfolio? by Franchise Whale

Franchise Whale — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:13:47 +0000

Really enjoyed it, I wanted to click out and
you kept pulling me back in! Many thanks
and keep up the great work!

Comment on If you can’t beat them, BUY them! by Bas van Oosterhout

Bas van Oosterhout — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:21:42 +0000

@Bas

I think that Google is great in creating a really specific offer to their client, but also to their employees.
If you have a look at a previous post with a generic business model you will see that this is central, and key for innovating within the business model. This is what generates the Google experience.
Of course each of the companies acquired needs confirm to Google’s business model; that is is most cases generating traffic for Adwords. This same way of generating earning creates similar energie, or cultures. A business model in this context is used as a lever to transform an organization.

Comment on If you can’t beat them, BUY them! by Evolvingwheel

Evolvingwheel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:15:16 +0000

Great perspective and good post.

Few things I would like to say briefly here. In global M&A activities, the challenge is not often limited to cultural/regional backgrounds. The post-merger shockwave varies on the flavor of the merged companies. If a corp. buys a startup then the absorption is different from when a startup acquires another startup. The stakeholder wights control PMI successes and the strategic vision of leadership defines to what extent the perturbation will be cushioned. When a French Pharmaceutical company buys a Filipino accupuncture unit that is extremely successful in a Filipino regional segment with an intention to bring that science to the western hemisphere, the flow of intellectual capital (East-to-West) has maximum impact on internal operations and knowledge flow TO the French company. If the same science is moving from East-to-East, then the PMI effort is easier and the strategic initiative concentrates on local market value development and more so on regional integration.

My two cents.

http://innovech.wordpress.com

Comment on If you can’t beat them, BUY them! by Bas van Raaij

Bas van Raaij — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:50:38 +0000

Interesting article… I’m wondering what’s your opinion about Google and their PMI strategy?

They are a real acquisition-monster at the moment. Their latest acquisition: http://www.grandcentral.com. All those companies have to be integrated in the existing organisation.

Do they have a special approach for PMI?

Comment on Cradle to cradle: a new ways of thinking about design by Rik

Rik — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:47:26 +0000

Checkout the VPRO-Tegenlicht documentary (in dutch only) about cradle to cradle @
http://snipurl.com/1wjre

and the 2nd documentary (made 1 year after the first one)@
http://snipurl.com/1wjrh

Gr, R>