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Another work session with Sam Schneider for refining and clarifying “The Innovation Playground Canvas”

rencontre et discussion très intéressante avec Sébastien Tondeur, CEO de MCI (web) et membre de Entrepreneurs’ Organization (web). Succès impressionnant de MCI, bien présenté dans un article récent de Bilan:

Training at HEC Montreal and pitch to judges for the Social Business Creation competition (web), animated by Prof. Mai Thai, with the participation of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus.

A short video presenting best practices in business model design (video)

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

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)

short trip to Lugano for BMGEN/VPDesign and visit to friends Prof. Erik Larsen (web) and Giovanni Camponovo (web), at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)

Work sessions with Sam Schneider for refining “The Innovation Playground Canvas”

Working sessions with Alex preparing the agenda for the @strategyzer coaching bootcamp in August (web)

An intense 5-day bootcamp for business coaches who want to get to the next level in business model/value proposition design and Lean Startup … more

A Strategyzer blog post on “Why Companies Fail & How To Prevent It” (post):

As suggested by IDEO, “When you sketch out a business model with the Business Model Canvas you actually make assumptions about desirability, feasibility, and viability:

Feasibility is about the assumptions that you chose the right infrastructure to execute your business model well (risk: poor execution).

Desirability is about the assumptions that will actually create customer value (risk: solving an irrelevant customer job).

Viability is about the financial assumptions that will earn you more money than you spend (risk: flawed business model).

Adaptability is about the assumptions that you chose the right business model within the context of external factors, like competition, technology change, or regulation (risk: external threats).

“Once you have defined all those assumptions related to feasibility, desirability, and viability, and adaptability, you can apply customer development and lean startup to test them.

4 ou 5ème rencontre et discussion avec Louis-Félix Binette, créateur de f. & co et Renaud Margairaz (gradué Unil) dans leurs nouveaux locaux

f. & co o pense que “dans notre économie en constante transformation, la collaboration est plus que jamais nécessaire. C’est pour rendre cette collaboration concrète et productive que f. & co déploie ses services conseils en management stratégique sous forme de méthodologies robustes et de services adaptés aux réalités d’affaires de ses clients (more)

Ils ont récemment lancé Eminence, un Parcours de branding personnel adapté au monde des affaires … (web).

PhD Oral defence by Alexandre Joyce, at Concordia University, presenting “A Proposal for a Design Approach to more Sustainable Business Models: Tools, process and outcomes to imagine the future of organisations”

“Stories of organizations transforming their business model is nothing new. At some point in time, any organization, big or small, reaches a crossroad where strategic thinking points towards reinvention. However, we argue that most business model changes are not specifically designed for environmental or social benefits but predominantly economic gain … (more)