Visual thinking is indispensable to working with business models*. By visual thinking we mean using visual tools such as pictures, sketches, diagrams, post-it notes to construct and discuss meaning. Because business models are complex concepts composed of various building blocks and their interrelationships, it is difficult to truly understand a model without sketching it out.
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Although strategy consultant Ouke Arts had seen many businessess and business models before – he had a hard time figuring out how the model of Sellaband exactly works. How does their model differentiate from the established music industry players? Who are the clients of Sellaband? What are their activities? How do they sell their services? [...]
Great conferences, high energy, great speakers and dito audience. Do you see all the stickies on the participants? We did a physical tagging exercise. A must for every event! And… the book is ready for sale.
Striking is that Tata introduced a new car… The Tata Nano. It was first introduced on the Auto Expo (Jan 2008). A cheap, basic designed and environmental friendly car (very economical) . The car will be on sales on July 2009. But is this business model innovation? What do you think? Yes, making cars available for everyone… [...]
At the JAM office in Amsterdam we recently performed a pilot training on Business Modeling and Visualization. As we claim that you need to visualize your business model, we would like to try this out through a pilot at the Vizthink NL gathering in The Netherlands.
But how to do that? Are people able to draw? Do [...]
