Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013

Business Model Generation


Business model generation sounds promising.Who would not like a generator which produces valid and working business models? Does that sound like entrepreneur's paradise? Yes, it does.

But don' t mix a business model with a business plan, which is ususally more like a fictional piece of literature, based on lots of hypothesis' described as facts and containing some cool charts. For this kind of literature generators are easy to provide But they do not create any business, just blabla and blingbling.

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as " the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value." I like Alex' presentation style (and the the contents too). Especially when it is about two things which have my special attention: business models and innovation. Get it all in one presentation, which is really funny too, especially the part with the desperated record company guy, who has no idea how to face the download culture business threads. Enjoy!

Montag, 27. Mai 2013

The Game has changed

It sounds odd,  but startups and large companies have one thing in  common. It is this massive amount of bullshit talking when it comes to business. Let it be presentation slides or business plan creativity, it seems to be a system where lies a better honored than telling the truth.

  1. Most companies are not customer driven, but pretend to be.
  2. Most product features are obsolete.
  3. Slides and spreadsheets do not generate money.  
  4. ... i could continue for hours ...

I like the idea of talking about real things in business, and I like just telling the truth. In plain and simple words, not in a consultant style bullshit bingo way.

For this reason I like the lean startup ideas, I like pretotyping, in short any approach which involves the customer instead of just guessing.

Terms like MVP (Minimal viable product) or pretotyping show us that there is a new business style establishing out there. Let's hope that it will reach even the bigger companies which might take the chance to learn and stop their managers mixing constantly the terms hypothesis and truth.