Yves Pigneur

communication aux alumni HEC de Singapore, au Swiss club de Singapour, organisé par Véronique Salvi, stagiaire swissnex (web)

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.

During my visit at INSEAD, Prof. Virginia Cha made me aware of the so-called “shanzhai innovation”, based on her original research on Shanzhai innovation and relating to the recent Silicon Valley phenomenon on”Growth Hacking”.

“Shanzhai innovation” is the Chinese phenomenon where a core technology like cell telephony is copied and rapidly iterated to suit local needs.

More on Shanzhai innovation in the Rainer Wessler’s and Virginia Cha’s slideshare decks:

See the videos, by TVB, the popular television broadcaster in Hong Kong,

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See also the launch event of the Xiaomi Phone 2 …

A couple of other references: (Booz) (wikipedia) (Druid) (Le Monde) …

talk and discussion on techno-entrepreneurship, at INSEAD MBA, invited by Dr Virgin Cha (web)

The talk will present a visual canvas for designing and assessing business models. Business model innovation and industry changes are illustrated with examples such as Nespresso, Circus of the Sun, and SunEdisson. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models.

Keynote for ideas.inc, at Sentosa, on September 22

“… an opportunity for you to learn more about entrepreneurship and get introduced to ideas.inc. Challenge. The ideas.inc. StartingUp is a conference where you learn from the pros, network with the experts in the ecosystem and meet like-minded individuals!”

The talk presents the visual business model canvas for designing and assessing business models. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity is also emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. The suggestion to the entrepreneurs will be to “burn their business plans but design, test, and iterate their business models”. As Steve Blank tells it: “no business plan survives the first contact with customers” …

sketching by Tim Hamons (web)

(see also a blog post by Martin Pasquier)

Call for Papers
21st European Conference on Information Systems – June 5-8, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Important Dates

Submissions open: October 1, 2012
Submission deadline: December 7, 2012 (strict and only deadline!)
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2013

Beyond Borders
It is our honor and pleasure to bring the IS community back to the Netherlands, nearly 20 years after the 2nd ECIS-conference was held in the Netherlands in 1994. In 2013, the conference is organized in Utrecht where we will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht, signed in 1713. The Treaty of Utrecht also inspired the proposed conference theme: Beyond Borders. ECIS2013 features a topical, diverse and exciting set of conference tracks. Track chairs and associate editors represent a wide range of countries and topics. Read the rest of this entry »

February 11-12, 2013, Paris (call for papers)

The ’Digital Enterprise Design & Management (DED&M)’ conference aims at becoming a key place for international debates, meetings and exchanges on the Enterprise Architecture dimension of the digital business.

More on DED&M web site (web)

seminar at the NUS Business School, Department of Decision Sciences, on September 19, 3:00pm, BIZ 1, Seminar Room 02-04

The talk will present the business model canvas for designing, assessing and challenging business models. Design thinking attitude and customer centricity will also be emphasized for exploring, prototyping and testing business models. The talk will also describe the research conducted to develop the business model canvas, for which a design science paradigm has been adopted. Three research areas and artifacts have been explored. The first one concerns the formalization and visualization of the core constructs related to business models. The second area corresponds to the exploration of how design techniques might contribute to improving the generation and evaluation of multiple business models. The third one is the research of computer-aided design assisting in the process of designing strategic objects such as business models.

Inspiring talk by and nice panel discussion with Kia Silverbrook, the 2012 Distinguished Technopreneur Speaker, hosted by A*STAR (ETPL), SIngapore.

“Kia Silverbrook is an Australian inventor, scientist and entrepreneur. He has more than 4,400 granted patents and more than 9,700 patents or patent applications internationally. Kia Silverbrook has founded companies and developed products in a wide range of disciplines, including computer graphics, video and audio production, scientific computing, factory automation, digital printing, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), molecular electronics, internet software, content management, genetic analysis, MEMS devices, security inks, photovoltaic solar cells, and interactive paper.” (wikipedia)

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Kia SIlverbrook has spoken on the innovation success rate in the 20th century and some major technologies that will shape the next half of the century. Among them, he selected and explained six ones: artificial intelligence, bio tech, solar tech, 3D printing, robotics and intelligent cars.

talk and discussion on techno-entrepreneurship, at NUS Institute of Systems Science (web), invited by Dr Virgin Cha

“The Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore is known for its broad-based advanced professional continuing education in Information Technology specialising in Software Technology and Engineering Practice and provides industry with Strategic IT Management, e-Business and Knowledge Management expertise.”

The intro to the BMGEN canvas presents the business model canvas 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.

Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y. (2012) Designing business models and similar strategic objects: the contribution of IS (accepted JAIS)

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we argue that information systems (IS) research has the potential to contribute to improving strategic planning, just like it has substantially contributed to improving decision making and its support in organizations in the past. Based on our work and experience in the field of business models, we outline how IS research can help strategic management researchers study the design of business models and other similar strategic notions. The paper suggests that the current research focus in strategic management could be improved and enlightened by some of the more conceptual and design-oriented research in IS. We highlight three areas in particular’in which IS research has excelled’that could inform research in strategic management. The first concerns the identification, formalization, and visualization of the core constructs and models of interest related to the design and analysis of strategic business issues. The second area corresponds to the exploration of how design techniques and tools might contribute to improving the design of answers and alternatives to strategic business questions. The third area addresses the research in computer-aided design assisting the process of designing strategic management objects such as business models.

(a revision of a previous paper – see here)