Bas van Oosterhout’s Business Innovation Blog

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 knowledge stream, all involved in […]

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 Ocean and TRIZ. These methods […]

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, re-thinking your Business Model seems […]

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 good enough segment is defined […]

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 strange that the term itself […]

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 thinking differently, as Apple will […]

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 our common sense.
Applying this line […]

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 of transitions. But fact is […]

Back from the Austrian slopes there was the news that China has introduced its first commercial passenger jet, the ARJ21 (Advanced Regional Jet). Not really strange; China is evolving its industrial capababilities is almost every business segment so why not commercial jets. China Aviation Industry Corporation start in the 70-90 passenger segment, in […]