Yves Pigneur

Suggested readings …
(with links to Amazon.com)

Business model innovation

Testing business models and customer development

Strategic thinking for innovation

Design thinking, idea generation and innovation

Visual workshop and meetings

Visual thinking and presentations

and …

The list of books (PDF)

interesting meeting with Kevin TEO, COO, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (avpn) on social business models, patterns and layers.

Kevin manages the ACSEP SE Patterns project (web), which catalog known social entreprises along a set of attributes and attempt to identify common patterns among them. He wrote: “These Patterns will subsequently be used for teaching purposes, as well as to help budding social entrepreneurs leapfrog their start-up process by being aware of the key challenge and success factors in each Pattern.”

We quickly sketched the business model of A-Changin (web) and its “Alteration initiative”.

“A-changin Private Limited is a social enterprise with a social mission to provide training and employment opportunities to work-capable women in need, especially single mothers. Our first work-integration initiative, appropriately named Alteration Initiative, aims to equip disadvantaged women with garment alteration skills to achieve adequate source of income and better quality of life; integrating them into mainstream society. By concentrating on sewing quality, computerised processes, modern settings and friendly service; we aim to modernise and corporatise the business of apparel alteration in Singapore.”

More on this pattern.

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:

“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.

A one-week “workation” with Alex and Alan on the “Customer Value Map”, a plug-in that complement the Business Model Canvas BMGEN (see Alex’s post here).

Nice business proposals presented by students in the Jan Ondrus’s course on e-business at ESSEC/Pacific Asia:

“B-Belah” is a mobile app. for Singaporean shopaholics that aggregates your reward cards and offers further advantages making shopping more exciting and rewarding.

For mothers in Singapore who are willing to organize a party to celebrate the birth of their baby, “Babyboo” is an online service that offers them to create a gift list, to send invitation cards and to find advice and tips for the party.

“Backpackers in Singapore” targets travelers that is particularly keen on meeting other people while traveling.

“Donating for kids” is a platform to make expatriates and Singaporean low-income families meet so that the first ones can donate items that used to belong to their kids to the second ones through a very simple process.

“EP” provide patients mainly elderly people with an electronic device that could monitor their medication and warn them if there is any misuse.

“Foodlovers” aims at offering new experiences to highly demanding customers for high-end food discovery for members who are willing to pay a premium for exclusivity.

“HOS” offers a safe, rich and user-friendly Smartphone application aiming at encouraging interactions between the diverse Singaporean student bodies.

“MyLittleHome” proposes a box delivered monthly which offers expatriates living in Singapore a little touch from their homeland.

August 2nd, 2012
Message from the Department of Decision Sciences (web) at National University of Singapore (NUS):

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Please join Decision Sciences in welcoming Professor Yves Pigneur (University of Lausanne), who is here as Visiting Professor from 1 August 2012 ’ 23 February 2013. His office is at BIZ 1 MRB #8-1, office no.6516 3074 or bizyajp@nus.edu.sg/ yves.pigneur@unil.ch.

[...]

July 30th, 2012

“ANYONE who has tried a hand at starting a high-tech business’seeking to turn a clever research idea into something customers will pay good money for’quickly learns that everything taught in business school is next to useless. The mistake is to think of start-ups as just smaller versions of established businesses. They are nothing of the sort.

[...]

As the architect of the I-Corps programme, Mr Blank’s blueprint draws on two complementary techniques’’business-model design’ and ’customer-development process’. The first uses a technique pioneered by the authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur in their book ’Business Model Generation’. This provides a handy graphical template (called a “canvas”) that helps fledgling start-up teams envisage their most likely customers. With the canvas’ nine separate blocks covering such things as resources, value propositions, customer relations, cost structure and revenue streams, it captures the complete essence of a business plan. By filling in the individual blocks, the hopeful entrepreneurs are forced into the sort of business brainstorming many are unfamiliar with.

Customer-development process, meanwhile, provides a real-world way of testing the business plan’s various hypotheses, as written in the canvas’ nine blocks. The testing is done by getting potential customers, suppliers, partners and channel operators to challenge the assumptions. If invalidated, the I-Corps team has to pivot, and revise the entry in that particular block of the canvas. The process is repeated until all reiterations, in all nine blocks, are finally exhausted and the business plan emerges robust enough to be realistic.

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See the article here

’Find out how Alex turned a doctoral thesis on a niche topic like business models into a runaway bestseller and a highly rewarding career as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and consultant to some of the greatest companies on the planet.’

“He and co-author Yves Pigneur share the vision that if they could just experiment and ’do creative stuff’, they could create a book so unique that people would come and buy it before it was even published (thereby financing the publication).”

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