Can we drop Product and add Value to Development or Innovation?

I think the terms Product Development, Product Marketing and Product Managers have become obsolete. This is not new thinking on my part, see past blog posts:  Do You Know the Right Job For Your Products? or Will Product Managers embrace Open Innovation? or not even, so I can promote Lean Service Design. If you have Read More …

Business Model Innovation with Kaplan

Saul Kaplan (@skap5), the author of The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing was my guest on the podcast, An Innovation Junkie Interviewed. Saul is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF), a real-world laboratory for exploring and testing new business models and social Read More …

Can a Mature Company Risk Experimentation

In next week’s Business901 podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Saul Kaplan, the author of The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing. An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:  Can a mature company afford to take that risk with their brand, to do that type of experimentation and Read More …

What’s New in Business Model Generation

Need a collection of tools to help generate business model ideas! The Business Model Canvas is an analytical tool outlined in the book Business Model Generation. It is a visual template preformatted with the nine blocks of a business model, which allows you to develop and sketch out new or existing business models. This book Read More …

Lean Engagement Team Book Released

Sales and marketing can no longer operate in a vacuum. It has become a process output that intertwines across many of the departments within the organization. As companies have become flat, their decision making is increasingly being done by committee. As a supplier, you must mimic your customer decision-making path and as a result your Read More …