http://www.basvanoosterhout.com Business Model Innovation, Business Innovation, Management Innovation, Strategy, Value Configuration, Proposition, Open Innovation, Execution, Organization, Growth Boost, Financial Performance Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:58:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to thought leaders within INSEAD customers are really in the driver's seat when it comes to making or breaking a brand. Also different consumer trends indicate the same, such as Trendwatching.com for example. In the past people could be earmarked to fit within a certain stereotype, e.g. punkers during ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/the-brand-is-the-business Working on different client innovation projects and reshaping their Business Models it is often the case that a new project explicits a need to move into a different part of the current value chain. With Value Chains in this case I mean different organizations and enitities, consisting of resources and ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/business-model-20-manage-your-value-chain Many people are interested in how a new Value Proposition is created. Of course, understanding this process and being able to execute it, provides a basis for continuously staying ahead of competitors; it would be the Holy Grail of business. In workshops I have used various methods such as Blue ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/creation-process-breakdown Recently Business Models and Business Model Innovation received increased attention. The term devaluated during the high rise of the Internet Bubble, when all you needed to get venture capital was a new type of Business Model, without any sanity check. Now in an era of ever increasing competition from emerging markets, ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/how-to-succesfully-manage-your-innovation-portfolio Recently HBR published an article about the difference in competition between the US and Europe and emerging markets, China in the article. Where in the US and Europe most customers demand excellent quality in China the largest segment is the "good enough" segment (62% share of market in 2005). The ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/innovasion-competing-in-the-chinese-good-enough-market During the Internet Bubble Business Model was one of the buzz words. Companies did not need a real strategy, a special competence, or even customers. The only thing needed was a web-based Business Model making vague promisses about wild profits in a distant future (source Joan Magretta, HBR, 2002). Not ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/the-importance-of-business-model-innovation Many of the people following the Business Innovation topic online already know TED. TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is an online platform which is used to spread ideas. Basically talks, such as presentations are made available to the public, for free. The main goals is to inspire others to start ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/co-creation/ben-kaufmans-approach-to-creating-a-big-product-in-72-hours Last week news spread that Ryanair's profit could be halved due to ever risen fuel cost and a weaker UK pound. Last quarter 2007 net profit dropped with as much as 27%. This is not news that is typical for Ryanair. Applying the Southwest business model it is well know ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/ryan-airs-perfect-storm-a-business-model-defeated-by-oil-prices Recently I stumbled upon an interesting article which states that we should not focus on the things we are good at, but concentrate on the areas we are not so great at. The theory behind it is based on researching to-be chess masters. Of course this differs 180 degrees from ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/the-practice-of-leadership Growth is something which can be realized in many different ways: operational excellence with Six Sigma trajectories; product or technology innovation, either incremental or radical; business model innovation; or plain old mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Of course calling it plain old does no justice to the complexity of these kinds ... http://www.basvanoosterhout.com/business-model-innovation/if-you-cant-beat-them-buy-them