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The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing

The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is Changing

by Saul Kaplan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: April 2012
ISBN: 9781118149560
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Book Description

Business model innovation is the new strategic imperative for all leaders

Blockbuster's executives saw Netflix coming. Yet they stuck with their bricks and mortar business model, losing billions in shareholder value. They were "netflixed." Business models don't last as long as they used to. Historically CEO's have managed a single business model over their entire careers. Today, all organizations must be capable of designing, prototyping, and experimenting with new business models. The Business Model Innovation Factory provides leaders with the survival skills to create a pipeline of new business models in the face of disruptive markets and competition.

Avoid being netflixed. Your organization must be a business model innovator to stay competitive in today's turbulent world.

  • Author Saul Kaplan 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 systems. BIF has attracted a global community of over five thousand innovators and organizes the internationally renowned BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for The Business Model Innovation Factory
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: What You Have Always Done Isn't Working Anymore
    1. Chapter 1: Don't Get Netflixed: Your Current Business Model Isn't Going to Last Much Longer
      1. Blockbuster Gets Netflixed
      2. Even Netflix Is in Danger of Being Netflixed
    2. Chapter 2: Business Models 101: Creating, Delivering, and Capturing Value
      1. How Does Your Company Create Value?
      2. How Does Your Organization Deliver Value?
      3. How Does Your Organization Capture Value?
      4. Putting the Entire Business Model Story Together
    3. Chapter 3: Why Organizations Fail at Business Model Innovation
      1. 10 Reasons Companies Fail at Business Model Innovation
  9. Part II: Connect, Inspire, Transform: 15 Business Model Innovation Principles
    1. Connect: Business Model Innovation Is a Team Sport
    2. Inspire: We Do What We Are Passionate About
    3. Transform: Incremental Change Isn't Working
    4. Chapter 4: Connect: Business Model Innovation Is a Team Sport
      1. Principle 1. Catalyze Something Bigger Than Yourself
      2. Principle 2. Enable Random Collisions of Unusual Suspects
      3. Principle 3. Collaborative Innovation Is the Mantra
      4. Principle 4. Build Purposeful Networks
      5. Principle 5. Together, We Can Design Our Future
    5. Chapter 5: Inspire: We Do What We Are Passionate About
      1. Principle 6. Stories Can Change the World
      2. Principle 7. Make Systems-Level Thinking Sexy
      3. Principle 8. Transformation Is Itself a Creative Act
      4. Principle 9. Passion Rules—Exceed Your Own Expectations
      5. Principle 10. Be Inspiration Accelerators
    6. Chapter 6: Transform: Incremental Change Isn't Working
      1. Principle 11. Tweaks Won't Do It
      2. Principle 12. Experiment All the Time
      3. Principle 13. Off the Whiteboard and into the Real World
      4. Principle 14. It's a User-centered World—Design for It
      5. Principle 15. A Decade Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  10. Part III: Creating a Business Model Innovation Factory
    1. Chapter 7 :R&D for New Business Models
      1. Innovate through Connected Adjacencies
    2. Chapter 8: Leading and Organizing a Business Model Innovation Factory
      1. Staffing a Business Model Innovation Factory
      2. Skills and Experience to Staff a Business Model Innovation Factory
      3. Wanted: Business Model Designers
      4. Resourcing a Business Model Innovation Factory
      5. Overcoming the Politics of Business Model Innovation
    3. Chapter 9: Experimenting with Business Models in the Real World
      1. Give Me Rhode Island
      2. A Better Place
      3. Putting the Customer in the Business Model Driver Seat
  11. Part IV: Business Models Aren't Just for Business
    1. Chapter 10: Nonprofits Have Business Models Too
    2. Chapter 11: R&D for New Social Systems
      1. Measure Innovation Outputs
      2. Education Rant
    3. Chapter 12: What's Your Personal Business Model?
      1. Stay on a Steep Learning Curve
      2. Embrace Vulnerability
      3. Blessing and a Curse
  12. About The Author
  13. Index