The Origins of the Event Canvas

The popular book by Alex Osterwalder, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, with the ensuing Business Model Canvas has spawned many other “Canvases”, some famous and others not so famous. In this video excerpt from an upcoming podcast with Ruud Janssen, the co-author of a new book, Event Design Handbook: Systematically Read More …

Quickest Way to A Quality Marketing Plan

A lot of us will procrastinate writing a marketing plan and for good reason. Planning is painful. If done correctly, it forces us to face current reality. Adding insult to injury, it forces us to face future reality. It is simply a disheartening process for most. I wrote an outline on what I think a Read More …

A Collection of Leadership Stacks

This is a collection of Business901 Podcast Transcriptions, called Stacks (see below) through my Issuu channel: Leadership Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as any other publications that you find interesting. For your own publications, after you are done publishing them, Stacks are an easy way for readers to Read More …

Cespedes on Sales Strategies Part 2 of 2

Frank V. Cespedes is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Unit at Harvard Business School. He has run a business, served on boards for start-ups and corporations, and consulted to many companies around the world. He is the author of five books as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, California Read More …

Platform Building Matrix

Moving from Goods Dominant Logic to Service Dominant Logic? In the book, The Reciprocity Advantage: A New Way to Partner for Innovation and Growth, the authors give examples and describe the success of TED, IBM, Microsoft, Global Food Safety Initiative, Google, Apple, Airbnb and Tech Shop on creating new partnerships in order to achieve extraordinary growth. Read More …

Cespedes on Sales Strategies Part 1 of 2

Frank V. Cespedes is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Unit at Harvard Business School. He has run a business, served on boards for start-ups and corporations, and consulted to many companies around the world. He is the author of five books as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, California Read More …