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Stephen Walli replied to Patrick van der Pijl's discussion '10 tips for business model innovation - let's crowd source for more'
I was even considering more carefully the customer's problem. There's the famous old Levitt quote, "A customer doesn't want a 1/4 inch drill; what they want is a 1/4 inch hole." A customer doesn't necessarily want…
Stephen Walli replied to Patrick van der Pijl's discussion '10 tips for business model innovation - let's crowd source for more'
All: I love the 10 steps. The one thing I feel was missing is to remember the customer. I know the customer comes out in the canvas, and maybe this is a caveat instead of a tip. Too often I still see people so caught up in the their own solution…
Stephen Walli replied to Alex Osterwalder's discussion 'Feature Discussion: Business Model Innovation Killers'
Excellent point on not having the patience to stick to the model. A failure of ours in the late nineties was very much in this vein. We tried a number of strategies to get over the "chasm". Our VC laden board would beat up the VP Sales at…
Stephen Walli replied to Alex Osterwalder's discussion 'Feature Discussion: Business Model Innovation Killers'
I spent 1999-2004 in Microsoft. Any thing new was constantly attacked as not relevant compared to the primary cash streams of Windows and Office. This wasn't as simple as "we don't do business that way." This was because the…
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- Why are you passionate about business models and business model innovation?
- I've worked for start-ups that have succeeded (acquired) and failed, as well as companies as large as EDS and Microsoft. I consult with companies as "old school" and threatened as Microsoft as well as brilliant new model start-ups and open source based foundations. It's not the technology that's disruptive, it's the business model.
- How would you best describe your level of expertise when it comes to business models?
- knowledgeable
- What's your URL?
- http://stephesblog.blogs.com
- Who do you work for? What do you do?
- I help software companies and web companies develop their business models and strategy, from start-ups to Microsoft. I'm especially interested in Christensen economics and open source software development and standards development. I've been a developer, a start-up founder and executive, a writer and a consultant.
- What industry do you mainly work in (e.g. financial services, telco, utilities, public sector, academia, pharma...)?
- software development
- What is the size of the organization you work for?
- freelance/independant
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