Bas van Oosterhout’s Business Innovation Blog

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As mentioned in the former post this blog focuses on new ways of delivering value. In delivering value there has to be an understanding of what value is and moreover how it is created. On the creation of a generic business model, suitable for discussion on how to innovate it, Alexander Osterwalder PhD has done […]