Business model generation [printed text] / A Osterwalder, Author ; Yves Pigneur, Author ; Tim Clark, Editor . - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2010 . - 288 p. : ill. (col) ; 19 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-470-87641-1
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

Class number:	658.4012
Abstract:	You're holding a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. It's a book for the business model generation. Disruptive new business models are emblematic of our generation. Yet they remain poorly understood, even as they transform competitive landscapes across industries. "Business Model Generation" offers you powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models. "Business Model Generation" is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model - or craft a new one. Change the way you think about buisness models. "Business Model Generation" will teach you powerful and practical innovation techniques used today by leading companies worldwide. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a new business model - or analyze and renovate an old one. Co-created by 470 strategy practitioners "Business Model Generation" practices what it preaches. Co-authored by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from forty-five countries, the book was financed and produced independently of the traditional publishing industry. It features a tightly integrated, visual, lie-flat design that enables immediate hands-on use. Designed for doers "Business Model Generation" is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new, innovative models of value creation: executives, consultants, entrepreneurs - and leaders of all organizations.
Contents note:	1 Canvas Definition of a Business Model; The 9 Building Blocks; The Business Model Canvas 2 Patterns Unbundling Business Models; The Long Tail; Multi-Sided Platforms; FREE as a Business Model; Open Business Models 3 Design Customer Insights; Ideation; Visual Thinking; Prototyping; Storytelling Scenarios 4 Strategy Business Model Environment; Evaluating Business Models; Business Model Perspective on Blue Ocean Strategy; Managing Multiple Business Models 5 Process Business Model Design Process Outlook Outlook Afterword; Where did this book come from?; References