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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…

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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…

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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…

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 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.…

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I have been using the canvas extensively and with improved understanding and success with my clients since I changed the layout of the canvas into the attached format (The canvas rearranged.pdf).

what value does this lay out bring to the table?

- 1 and foremost it shows in just a glimpse what is involved in…

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If one looks at the global business landscape, there seems to be countless businesses and myriad business models. However, based on my research covering the last 50 years of breakthrough ideas in business strategy and innovation, there are only 5 archetypal winning strategies and business models.

The presentation below illustrates the 5 archetypal winning strategies and business models.

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In my last Blog post, I was (and I continue) looking for some way of measuring "business value" for a Crown corporation at both the strategic (portfolio) and project levels of analysis.

I've found two articles that are, in my view, worth reading:

• Aligning IT Strategy with Business Strategy through the Balanced Scorecard…

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I'm currently working for a major Crown corporation setting up a Business Analysis Center of Excellence. One of the things that I am trying to do is make the link between what's of value to the enterprise (at the portfolio level) and what's considered of value for each software project that supports the enterprise.

I've used the Business Model Canvas to analyze how the enterprise works. The enterprise is not driven purely by a profit motive because it is a Crown corporation.…

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Having read this article on Modern Analyst, I am now interested in reading the book HOWEVER I have some concerns that the book's approach to modeling business architecture might not have the same impact it might if it were framed through the BMI Canvas.

Personally I'm looking for a way to take Alex' BMI Canvas from model to architecture-level detail(s) with benefits realization management (BRM) built into the diagramming.

Here's the article…

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Business Model Innovation is a relatively new concept. In the book, "Mastering the Hype Cycle," Jackie Fenn and Mark Raskino note that the term "business model" arose in the mid-1990s. The concept of business model has gone through three stages of the Hype Cycle: Technology Trigger; Peak of Inflated Expectations; Trough of Disillusionment. Business model and its associated concepts may now be on the "Slope of Enlightenment" and advancing towards the "Plateau of Profitability." This is good news… Continue