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Lean Launch Pad @ NUS

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Talk in the Luda’s Frugal Innovation Lab.

The NUS Faculty of Engineering launched a ’Lean Launch Pad” project (web) and a Frugal Innovation Lab (web) headed by Visiting Professor Luda Kopeikina (web), on the basis of the Lean Launch Pad project by Steve Blank, built on the Business Model/Customer Development stack.

“LaunchPad is a unique action learning project that assembles cross-disciplinary teams of graduate and Ph.D. students from the Faculty of Engineering & School of Business. Each team will work with a selected technology developed at NUS that has a promise to generate a large market impact. The students will learn how to actually start a high-tech company based on a particular technology. …”

“The objective of the Frugal Innovation Lab is to build solutions for specific pre-selected problems in the emerging Asian markets such as India and Indonesia.The intent is to create sustainable companies if a solution can be developed and demonstrated. …” . This semester, the selected projects correspond to potato harvesting, brackish water, post-harvest transfer, cooling materials and fish farming.

The intro to the BMGEN canvas presents the business model canvas (web) for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Cirque du Soleil, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

BMGEN @ ESSEC Asia Pacific

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Talk at ESSEC Asia Pacific (web) in the National Library Board building (web), invited by Prof. Hervé Mathe.

The talk presents the visual business model canvas (web) for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Cirque du Soleil, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

Business model innovation, design and testing are also illustrated with the story of the BMGEN book and software, with Alex, Alan & co …

BMGEN Workshop & Masterclass @ Singapore

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

by Alex & Yves
August 15th & 16th at Red Dot Design Museum

A rare two-day public workshop by the team behind the groundbreaking and best-selling book “Business Model Generation” targeting Senior Executives, Strategists, Innovation Managers, Entrepreneurs, Consultants, and Business Coaches looking for hands-on tools for their business model.

6o participants not only from Singapore but also Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Switzerland …

(web)

2 days sketched by Brenda Tan (web):

At the end of the masterclass, a panel session on BM innovation challenges in Singapore has been given by Scott Anthony. Scott is Managing Director of Innosight Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, he leads Innosight’s Asian operations and venture-capital investing activities and launched Innosight’s business prototyping and piloting practice (Innosight Labs).

The workshop and masterclass had been announced on the swissnex Newsletter:

interview at Channel NewsAsia, AM Live!

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

“Authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur was interviewed on AM Live! this morning to share their insights on how the book could help readers design a new business model. Watch the clip: video

Here’s what CNA’s interview introduction page looks like: web

Channel NewsAsia is a news channel with a regional reach, providing the latest in news and information on global developments with Asian perspectives. Channel NewsAsia is now viewed in more than 20 territories across Asia for an audience of some 29 million households and hotel rooms.

BMGEN @ Ashoka

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

Modèles économiques et innovation à Ashoka & Fondetec
27 juin 2012

Dans le cadre du concours Impact organisé par Ashoka, cet atelier devrait permettre aux participants de (a) découvrir un langage visuel pour décrire, remettre en question et évaluer leur modèle économique social, (b) mieux comprendre certains exemples marquants d’innovation par les modèles économiques, tels que Grameen, Peepoople, Eight19 et d’autres, et (c) illustrer la « design attitude » dans la conception de modèles économiques.

BMGEN @ Rezonance

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Quand l’économie du Libre réinvente mon modèle d’affaires!
Mardi 5 juin 2012 – 17h00 – Paudex

Innovation par les business models?

Comment rêver votre futur en jouant et dessinant son modèle d’affaires ? Comment le langage visuel permet de décrire, remettre en question et évaluer son business model ? Analyser et comprendre certains exemples marquants d’innovation et les apports du “design thinking” dans la conception de modèles d’affaires innovants.

Pour en savoir plus (Rezonance)

BMGEN à la promotion économique de Genève

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Petit déjeuner des PME et des start-up – vendredi 25 mai 2012

Cette présentation permettra de découvrir un langage visuel pour concevoir, remettre en question et évaluer des business models. Plusieurs exemples d’innovation par les business models y seront illustrés et analysés. Les participants sortiront de la présentation avec en mains un outil concret qu’ils pourront mettre en ’uvre dans le design de leurs futurs business models.

Pour en savoir plus (site web)

BMGEN @ IMD

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Dans le cadre d’une semaine animée par Cyril Bouquet et en particulier d’une journée dite “Deep dive”, les objectifs de cet atelier sont de (a) découvrir et d’appliquer le “Business model canvas”, un langage visuel pour décrire, remettre en question et évaluer des business models, (b) mieux comprendre certains exemples marquants d’innovation par les business models, et (c) explorer le paradigme “Managing as designing” et caractériser l’attitude “design” appliquée à la conception de business models.

HEC Lausanne décrypte l’actualité – Facebook : bulle boursière ou business model durable ?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

L’Unil décrypte l’actualité (web):

“Considéré presque comme le 3e plus grand pays du monde avec 900 millions de fans, 250 millions de photos téléchargées et 2.8 milliards de ‘like’ par jour, Facebook est le mastodonte des réseaux sociaux. Mais pour combien de temps encore ?

Le modèle d’affaires de Facebook peut-il durer au-delà de l’engouement de son énorme cotation boursière ? Que se passe-t’il dans les coulisses de l’entreprise de Palo Alto ? Pourquoi Facebook choisit maintenant de faire son entrée en bourse ? Dans ce 5e numéro de la série ‘HEC Lausanne décrypte l’actualité’, Yves Pigneur, Professeur de systèmes d’information, décortique le ‘business model’ de Facebook et apporte une grille de lecture pour mieux comprendre son succès planétaire.”

see
Facebook prospectus , May 2012 (PDF)
a nice slideshow on FB (slideshare) and
an estimation of average time on Facebook (PDF)

BMGEN @ matinale HEC

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Professor Yves Pigneur will give a conference entitled “Business model, innovation et pensée design” on Thursday May 3 at the University of Lausanne.

The ‘Matinales d’HEC Lausanne’ (web) are quarterly meetings organised by the HEC Lausanne Career Center and the HEC Alumni Association in order to facilitate dialogue between business leaders and University researchers. This conference-debate is open to all on May 3 from 8.00 to 10.00 in room 110 of the Extranef building on the campus of the University of Lausanne.