Yves Pigneur

Enregistrement d’une capsule video sur la conception d’une proposition de valeur pour EDUlib, le MOOC de HEC Montréal

EDUlib est une initiative de HEC Montréal qui vise à rendre disponible en accès libre une formation universitaire de qualité en français dans le domaine de la gestion (more).

Le cours concernée est “L’esprit entrepreneurial” (web) monté par Luis Cisneros, Franck Barès et Marie-Ange Masson de l’Institut d’entrepreneuriat (web), sur le métier d’entrepreneur, son profil entrepreneurial et son projet entrepreneurial.

conférence à l’assemblée générale du Groupe E (web), invité par Marco Leutwiler et Dominique Gachoud, CEO

Les objectifs de cette présentation sont de (a) présenter un langage visuel pour décrire, remettre en question et esquisser des modèles d’affaires, (b) explorer le paradigme “Managing as designing” et caractériser le “design thinking” dans la conception de modèles d’affaires, et (c) découvrir l’expérimentation de modèles d’affaires avec les clients.

talk at University of St Gallen (web), invited by Prof. Robert Winter

The talk is based on the following paper, and will explain the research behind the 15-year story of BMGEN:

Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y. (2013) Designing business models and similar strategic objects: the contribution of IS. Journal of AIS, 14(5), 237-244.

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A first 2-day workshop on Business Model Generation (BMGEN) in Oslo this year …

“A rare two-day public workshop by the team behind the groundbreaking and best-selling book, Business Model Generation”

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

see here for details

City Unrulyversity talk on BMGEN to entrepreneurs on the Google Campus London, invited by Caroline Wiertz, City University London (web); organised by meetup (web) as the “Co-Founder Speed Dating & Pitching #9″, nicely guided by Mario Campana and welcome by Robert Fenton “Papa Smurf”.

“City Unrulyversity is a free pop-up university in the heart of Tech City. Its mission is to inform, inspire, and empower the next generation of Tech City entrepreneurs (more).

“Google Campus’s mission is to create an environment that encourages innovation through collaboration, mentorship, and networking (more).

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seminar on BMGEN story to researcher at Cass Business School, City University London (web), invited by Adrian Cheok and Caroline Wiertz and Santi Furnari who coordinates the Research Workshop Series (web), welcomed by Stefan Haefliger

Caroline Wiertz (web) is a Reader in Marketing at Cass Business School. Adrian David Cheok (web) is a chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London. I met him when he was formerly Professor at Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design and in the National University of Singapore.

The seminar aims at resenting the evolution of BMGEN research, visualised by the following picture:

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seminar at University College Cork (web) invited by Prof. Frédéric Adam (web), editor-in-chief of JDS, in the “Graduate School’s interactive research workshop series”

and meeting with Philip O’Reilly (linkedIn), principal investigator of the B-MIDEA research project.

“The B-MIDEA research project is funded by Enterprise Ireland, being developed in UCC and aims at developing the first dedicated Business Modeling Intelligent Design Evaluation Application with predictive and simulation capacity to enable better business decision making. (more)

This seminar aims at presenting the Business Model Canvas for designing, assessing and challenging business models. Business model innovation and industry changes will be illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, SunEdisson, and AirBnB. Design thinking attitude will also be emphasized for exploring and prototyping business models. Finally, the synergy between the business model canvas, lean startup and customer development will be briefly presented for testing business models web

meeting with Prof. Poh Kam Wong (NUS), Prof. Chris Tucci and his team at EPFL on business model innovation.

Poh Kam presented his ideas on how to design social business models, suggesting that for designing good business models one needs to consider other models: stakeholders, financing and social purpose.

The Chris’s team works on several research projects on business model innovation and design:

The principal objective of a (Swiss NSF) Sinergia project is to explore and clarify the nature of the mechanisms and dynamics underlying the emergence and evolution of new and existing Business Models.

A (EU) FutureEnterprise aims at opening new avenues for Internet-based Enterprise innovation by supporting and coordinating the research activities from the perspective as well as for the benefit of enterprises, on the basis of an open mentality to bridge the past (FP7) with the future (Horizon 2020).

The objective of the a MEDiATE (business models for the elderly) project is to develop and test innovative business models that will hopefully facilitate and enhance the uptake of the MEDiATE solution into well developed as well as emerging markets.

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!

master class for the Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) & Singapore Innovation and Productivity Institute (SiPi)

The aims at presenting the Business Model Canvas for designing, assessing and challenging business models. Business model innovation and industry changes will be illustrated with examples, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity will also be emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. Furthermore, business model mechanics, economics and layering will be presented and illustrated. Ground rules and pitfalls in the usage of the Business Model Canvas will be illustrated.

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