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Business Model Generation

A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
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Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur offers a comprehensive guide to understanding and crafting innovative business models. It introduces the Business Model Canvas, a strategic management tool to visually develop new business ideas or improve existing ones. The book combines practical design and innovative thinking to help entrepreneurs transform their visions into real business strategies.
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Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

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Business Model Generation is an essential guide for the ambitious and innovative professionals who refuse to settle for outdated business models and seek to forge pioneering enterprises of the future. This handbook is a must-read for those navigating the turbulent waters of contemporary business landscapes, offering an array of strategies designed to propel organisations ahead of their competition. Within its pages, the book delves into the intricacies of creating effective and sustainable business models, ensuring that your organisation not only survives but thrives amidst evolving market demands.

Co-created by a diverse group of 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners spanning 45 countries, Business Model Generation employs a captivating and immersive four-colour design to simplify and convey impactful strategic concepts and practical tools. This visually engaging format facilitates a deeper understanding, making complex ideas accessible and actionable within your own business context. The book meticulously lays out various Business Model patterns, drawing inspiration from the insights of eminent business thought leaders, and guides readers in tailoring these patterns to suit their unique challenges and aspirations.

Throughout the book, readers will acquire the skills necessary to systematically decipher, envisage, and execute revolutionary business models. The journey also involves critical analysis and revitalisation of existing models, enhancing your insight into critical factors such as customer understanding, distribution channels, partnerships, revenue streams, cost structures, and foundational value propositions.

Packed with actionable insights, Business Model Generation introduces innovative techniques currently adopted by global frontrunners in consultancy and enterprise, including renowned names like 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and beyond. This book speaks directly to the doers and the dreamers—executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and organisation leaders—who are prepared to break free from traditional mindsets to embrace cutting-edge modes of value creation.

In inviting you to become part of the "business model generation", the book empowers you to not just react to changes, but to reimagine and redefine the boundaries of your industry. If you are poised to transform conventional wisdom and to construct the unprecedented, then this guide is your blueprint for visionary success.

Series: The Strategyzer Series

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Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur is appreciated for its comprehensive coverage of current business model ideas, offering practical frameworks for understanding and developing businesses. Reviewers find it to be an excellent resource for evaluating business models, providing both theoretical and actionable insights.

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ISBN: 9780470876411

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 August 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 703g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Alexander Osterwalder (Lausanne, Switzerland;alexosterwalder.com; businessmodelgeneration.com) is a speaker,workshop facilitator and strategy consultant to organizations in 20countries on all continents. Besides his speaking engagements, Dr.Osterwalder focuses on executive training in the domain of businessmodel development and innovation. He writes a popular blog onbusiness model innovation at www.businessmodelalchemist.com.Organizations that use the business strategy described in BusinessModel Generation include 3M, Ericsson, IBM, Telenor, Capgemini,Deloitte, and many more. Yves Pigneur, PhD, (Lausanne, Switzerland;http://hecshost.unil.ch/ypigneur/) is a professor of business andhead of the Information Systems Institute of the University ofLausanne, Switzerland. He has held visiting professorships atGeorgia State University in Atlanta, Hong Kong University ofScience and Technology, and University of British Columbia inVancouver. Dr. Pigneur is the chairperson of several conferences(IFIP, ISDSS, AIM). His research has been published in over fiftybooks, refereed journals and conference proceedings.

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