Archive for the ‘books’ Category

Growth engine inside big corporations

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Fruitful discussion on growth engine inside big corporations with Alex and Rita Gunther McGrath, Prof. at Columbia, a globally recognized expert on strategy, innovation, and growth with an emphasis on corporate entrepreneurship (more)

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BMGEN/VPDesign masterclass at London

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

A two-day public masterclass at London with Alex, presenting the newest concepts and the freshest thinking, and with the nice sketches by Holger Nils Pohl (web)

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After this workshop you will have:

  • Learned about and applied a practical visual language and innovation process to describe, challenge, and design strategy and business models.
  • Appreciated powerful examples of business model innovation, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and social entrepreneurship ventures.
  • Explored and prototyped business models using design thinking, customer development, and lean start-up methods to boost future growth

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BMGEN in good company on amazon

Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

BMGEN in good company on amazon.com with “Blue Ocean Strategy” and Lean Startup …

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VPDesign translations

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

More translations of Value Proposition Design coming …

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and over 40 translations for BMGEN

Nilofer Merchant’s Required Reading

Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

As reported by Strategy+Business, Nilofer Merchant (web) puts “Business Model Generation” on her short required reading list on value creation

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“Nilofer Merchant has had a hand in launching more than 100 products that have netted a combined US$18 billion in sales — first in stints at Apple and Autodesk, and later as an advisor to technology companies such as Logitech, Symantec, and HP …

VPDesign video

Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

Our new video explaining the Value Proposition Canvas video is under construction by Daniela Neuebig, who already produced the BMGEN video (2 millions+ views)

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the big pad of BMC and VPC

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

A notebook of Business Model Canvases and Value Proposition Canvases by Wiley …

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BMGEN masterclass at Berlin

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

A two-day public masterclass on BMGEN/VPDesign at Berlin with Alex, with the nice sketches by Holger Nils Pohl (web)

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After this workshop you will have:

  • Learned about and applied a practical visual language and innovation process to describe, challenge, and design strategy and business models.
  • Appreciated powerful examples of business model innovation, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and social entrepreneurship ventures.
  • Explored and prototyped business models using design thinking, customer development, and lean start-up methods to boost future growth

Design a better business

Friday, September 9th, 2016

A new book “Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation by our friends Patrick, Justin and Lisa

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This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before, guiding readers (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business (more)

BMGEN à Hydro Québec

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Séminaire sur business model innovation pour le centre de recherche IREQ de Hydro Québec, invité par son Naouf Naggar, chef du développement stratégique.

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Les objectifs de cet exposé sont de (a) découvrir le Business Model Canvas et le Value Proposition Canvas, des outils visuels pour décrire des modèles d’affaires et leurs propositions de valeur, (b) mieux comprendre certains exemples marquants d’innovation par les modèles d’affaires, et (c) évoquer certaines approches de “design thinking” et “lean startup” appliquées à la conception de business models.