Three weeks from now, on June 5, 6, and 7 in Amsterdam, game developers, businesses and business model experts are going to work on the ultimate game for the Business Model Canvas. We are getting ready for it: the game developer teams have been selected, the industry themes have been decided on and the speakers are being briefed. 

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According to some Analysts, Google Glass – which currently is a prototype of a wearable (head-mounted) computer – could earn Google about $10 billion in 3 years, that is, over $3 billion a year! Buzz about Google Glass has dominated the technosphere and social media over the past few weeks. However, the Google-Glass Startup has not yet answered the Billion Dollar Question (BDQ): Will customers MASSIVELY adopt or reject Google Glass?

Opinions are split…

A Lean Startup Project for an FM Radio Station in Sierra Leone, West Africa

*** Trickle-up Development is being practiced in Sierra Leone, a small country in West Africa that was ravaged by years of a brutal civil war. Once recognized by its brand in Leonardo di Caprio’s film, “Blood Diamonds,” Sierra Leone is increasingly being noted for prodigious inventions by high school students taking part in the “Innovate Salone” program. …

 A Universal Problem Solving (UPS) Worksheet for Lean Startup, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and Business Model ReInvention Projects

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The Lean Six Sigma Methodology is one of the most used and useful tools in business. Based on a combination of the Six Sigma methodology and Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma focuses on continuously increasing quality (Six Sigma) while continuously reducing waste (Lean Thinking). 



Lean…

Use the Business Model Canvas as a Universal Problem Solving (UPS) Tool

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“The Proficiency Pyramid for the Business Model Canvas has Bronze, Silver, and Gold Levels: respectively Business Model Innovation Level, Supply Chain Management Level, and Universal Problem Solving Level. Ninety-nine percent of practitioners including consultants remain at the Bronze (Business Model Innovation) Level. Why?” 



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Simply Audit, Improve, and Design Your Business Model Using 10 Blocks of Best-practice Outcomes and Goals

Organizations, which survive and prosper, increasingly display the attributes of the ideal organization. Organizations, which underperform or fail, widely depart from the outcomes, goals and business model of the ideal organization. But, what is an ideal organization?



The ideal organization is a theoretical concept and does not…

Every now and then, entrepreneurs in the “LeanStartupSphere” pop a question the essence of which is as follows: “Business Model Canvas (BMC) vs. Lean Canvas (LC): Which tool do you prefer to document, test, present, and manage your business model?” 



According to Ash Maurya, who adapted Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, to produce the Lean Canvas, his goal was to make the Business Model Canvas “as actionable as possible…

Wake up, wake up, wake up! The way, which many individuals and organizations solve problems, is way too slow. 



There’s a tsunami about to hit organizations, from startups through mid-size organizations to behemoths. It’s a universal approach for rapidly solving problems in organizations especially those under conditions of great uncertainty. The approach is being heralded by a strong integration of Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model…

 Adaptively Discover, Grow, Defend, and/or Renew Profitable Business Models and Ecosystems

Today, business problems, opportunities, and risks are increasingly seen through the lens of a business model. Today, businesses and other organizations are abandoning Michael Porter’s concept of value chain and adopting the business model as the unit of business design, analysis, and planning. The ideas and principles of the value chain are still valid.…

While there are lots of great tools that support the business model canvas, there seems to be none that helps us to  get a feeling for the customer, his needs, pains  while defining the Customer Segments building block for the business model.

That's why I developed Personas for IPad, an app that will help you to iterate through your Customer Discovery process. State your customer hypothesis in a simple LeanUX…

There are multiple Business Model Canvas tools available:

1. Business Model Toolbox for iPad ($29.99)
2. Strategyzer ($14.99/month - $149.99/year with 2 free months)
3. Lienzo (Free for 1 canvas, $5/month for unlimited canvases)
4. Business…

Are you someone who is a business owner and who is wondering about the rising business debt that is marring the reputation of your business? Business debt can usually occur due to several reasons like sudden expansion, poor financial management and lack of revenue. However, whichever reason might have played a part in pushing you further into the debt hole, there are ways in which you can let go of your debt burden. If you're not aware of the ways in which you can get out of debt, you might…

Though it is true that the government do provide grants, for free, you cannot deny this fact too that money does not come for free. So, while applying for the government grants, beware of the scammers trying you woo you into the network…

by Tom Krekel

What if your predicament was made worst because your entire industry was losing ground?

Here’s the story of what one company did. They changed their business model. Their example may hold lessons for you in how to think about your business differently.

This is the story of a…

It is possible to design a more general business model for an organization and also specific business models for each business or client segment within that same organization. Both models not only should coexist but they should also be highly connected. Sometimes it is useful to start with the development of the more general model and then drill down to the more specific business models. Sometimes the opposite works better. The difficult part, in my opinion, is the link between models. The…

Recently the mobile phone company has announced a £50m investment in transforming its service model into a device oriented model. As a case study I have mapped out the model to see how the change to its value proposition impacted other aspects of the model. I also used the business model environment diagram to illustrate the forces at work. I aim to contrast this model with a small local grocery store that tweaked aspects of its business model rather than created an entirely new or…