{"id":965,"date":"2007-11-05T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/uncovering-strategies-and-business-models\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T11:29:46","slug":"uncovering-strategies-and-business-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/11\/uncovering-strategies-and-business-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering Strategies and Business Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second part of the Scott Hirsch workshop (first write-up is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frogpond.de\/index.php\/archive\/be-like-the-internet\/\">Be like the Internet<\/a>), as this is actually a business model innovation design issue I will post this here, but will put a note on the frogpond blog too, where most my other Web 2.0 Expo stuff will be collected.<\/p>\n<p>Scott starts with one big hairy question <em>What is a business model?<\/em> I think and see it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\">an interrelated bundle of context, strategies, structures and competencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some miscellaneous notes from the second part:<\/p>\n<p>Charts are one way to express a business model, Scott presents a slide of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger.com\/\">Dangers sidekick business model<\/a>, concentrating on their specific piece of the value chain &#8211; the place where Danger thinks it can contribute most.<\/p>\n<p>Scott talks about generic business models and asks which one of those is generic &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Web 2.0 companies are more like a taxi, than a bus (seen on a continuum of strategic position). Taxis are <strong>sense &#038; respond<\/strong>, the respond to the market, knowledge is embedded in people\/process, they are customizing all the time, they focus on flexibility and &#8230; the profit from return and scope).<\/p>\n<p>Talked about the Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma (Christensen) and conceptualizations of business models. Yes, he&#8217;s right 90% of what the standard business press writes about business models is in fact about product innovation, much less about process or cost-structure innovations &#8211; not to talk about structural innovations.<\/p>\n<p>Now Scott expands upon designing business models, i.e. applies the innovation cycle to prototyping business models. In fact this is MIG&#8217;s approach to business model innovation consulting, sometimes this is about redesigning lenses first: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Telling a new story<\/strong>: analytic look at the existing story, be a little more creative to tell a new story, providing new frameworks for thinking about business models through innovation lenses, then practicing using these lenses.<\/p>\n<p>Scott showed different ways of visualization, like e.g. industry maps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovation Lenses<\/strong>: Opportunitues derived from customer needs<\/p>\n<p>Trends &#038; discontinuities + Latent &#038; unmet need &#8230; this leads to innovations (product, services, markets, partners, channels, management). Then compare this to business models (industry orthodoxies + unleveraged assets). Scott offered a lot of examples that I can&#8217;t recount all, but think of it as a really cool business model innovation session, packed with short examples (Google Docs&#038; Spreasheets, Basecamp, Netflix, and many more innovative business models that feasted on overseen opportunities and outdated industry orthodoxies).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five things to remember when doing a inquiry session<\/strong>, and why it&#8217;s important to start with failure inquiries. Some really good insights into the shortcomings of human decision making (see posts on related organizational pathologies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/category\/organizational-pathologies\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second part of the Scott Hirsch workshop (first write-up is here: Be like the Internet), as this is actually a business model innovation design issue I will post this here, but will put a note on the frogpond blog too, where most my other Web 2.0 Expo stuff will be collected. Scott starts with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,8],"tags":[15,483,26,481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}