Yves Pigneur

La créativité entrepreneuriale expliquée aux nouveaux talents par Eric Favre, inventor of the Nespresso capsules and first CEO of Nespresso.

Eric Favre asks if it is possible to innovate in a large corporations and suggests these companies could benefit from encouraging entrepreneurs, these entrepreneurs within a company, who invent, create and develop innovative concepts (more)

Skype chat with Boris who has almost finished preparing his thesis manuscript, entitled “Computer Aided Business Model Design”, which will be defended in June

The objective of his thesis is to identify the needed functions of a computer-aided design (CAD) tool in a strategic context, specifically in the design of business models. The research question is: How can computer-aided design help in designing and assessing strategic business objects, such as business models? in eliciting ideas? in assessing ideas? and in managing the evolution of ideas?

last days of my visit at NUS bschool this year: warm welcome, fruitful meetings, great workshops, interests in BMGEN, … Thanks Thompson, Poh Kam, Chang Chieh, Luda, Dorothy … marvellous stay!

invited by Serguei Netessine (web), at INSEAD, on business model innovation and BMGEN.

Serguei is soon publishing a book on his recent research interest. In “The Risk-Driven Business Model”, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine introduce a toolkit to help innovators better conceive the disruptive business models that create wealth and revolutionize industries.

meeting at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), invited by Kian Teik BEH, International Director for Europe – fan of BMGEN (having already participated to a BMGEN workshop in Berlin), with Sze Ling, Lim, Deputy Director, and Kwee Eng Thien, Managing Director

“EDB’s ’Home’ strategy articulates how we are positioning Singapore for the future. It is about extending Singapore’s value proposition to businesses not just to help them improve their bottom line, but also to help them grow their top line through establishing and deepening strategic activities in Singapore to drive their business, innovation and talent objectives in Asia and globally (more)

meeting with Ted Tschang and Rick Smith, at SMU b-school (web), about the new capstone course they are preparing on business model design, based on BMGEN … 1’000 students per year: 25 cohorts of 40 students!

InnovFest conference with keynotes, meet ups, exhibition and awards, organised by NUS Enterprise, invited by Prof. Poh Kam Wong

“InnovFest convenes leading thought-leaders, groundbreaking companies and emerging technologies to provide a holistic and comprehensive glimpse of the innovation & enterprise landscape in Asia. (more). 4 themes this year: Urbanisation & Future Cities, Aging & the Silver Industry, Technologies Enabling Education, and Bottom-of-Pyramid Technologies

Winning Pirate3D team

Several awards have been given during the gala diner to recognise leading innovators and promising start-ups; the winner of Promising NUS start-up award was Pirate3D (see previous post here).

presenting BMGEN and related development at the Singapore A*Star ETPL, invited by Kaspar Chong, Vice-President, with other Senior and Executive Vice Presidents

“ETPL is the technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. Our charter is to support A*STAR in delivering economic growth to Singapore through commercializing promising technologies from its research institutes (more)

The ETPL team already uses BMGEN in its product conceptualisation, design thinking and business model design processes …

a short visual evolution of BMGEN

fruitful meeting Hock-Hai Teo (web), head of the department of IS at the School of Computing, NUS

“Established in conjunction with NUS School of Computing, Department of Information Systems is internationally renowned for being the home to 25 faculty members who are serving on editorial boards of major journals and program committees of major conferences in the field. Besides its doctoral and masters programs, the Department also offers undergraduate programs with majors in information systems, electronic commerce, and business analytics (in cooperation with the B-school). Its strong link with the industry can be seen from its leadership roles in the Strategic Technology Management Institute and the Centre for Health Informatics.