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 …

Marketing with Lean Series – 4 Pack

Special Offer It is even more special for a limited time, if you stay on the Business901 website for more than 30 Seconds! Lean Marketing House (More Info): A starting point for creating true iterative marketing cycles based on not only Lean principles but more importantly Customer Value. Recommended 1st reading of series. Marketing with Read More …

Product Design centers on Use and Experience

We swim in an ocean of products. Behind each one, there is someone (hopefully) thinking about the way we experience it. In this episode of Off Book, they explore three aspects of product design: Build quality and engineering fundamentals Humanism and sustainability Speculation on the future of the product experience. In discussion with the 4th Read More …

Service Design concepts for the Future of Banking

Conversations with twitter companion @flinchbaugh surfaced several frustrations with banking  From @flinchbaugh Lending by the nation’s top 4 banks is down over $150 Billion – we still have a lending crisis that is hurting the ability to create jobs. @flinchbaugh is that a lending issue or if companies had a demand could they get the Read More …

Expectations create Reality

In discussing the topics of Appreciative Inquiry and Service Design, I came upon this summary that seemed very fitting for the end of the week. What we ASK determines what we DISCOVER What we DISCOVER determines how we TALK What we TALK ABOUT determines how we DREAM together How we DREAM together determines what we Read More …

Know the Right Job For Your Products

From Innosight and authored by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Gerald Berstell, Denise Nitterhouse The market segmentation scheme that a company chooses to adopt is a decision of vast consequence. It determines what that company decides to produce, how it will take those products to market, who it believes its competitors to be and Read More …