Business Model Generation

With thanks to Mark and Amelia for presenting me with this book as a gift - I have decided to establish this group to allow for dialog that will help the members apply the content to their businesses.

As I have worked with my clients I have articulated the value of:

• Peter Drucker's work - especially the Five Questions
• Bob Norton's work - especially the Vision Model
• Chris Anderson's work - especially as articulated in "Free" with his assertion that sooner or later - we will all have to compete with "free"
• Karl Hellman's work - especially as articulated in "The Customer Learning Curve"
• Kevin Maney's work - especially as articulated in "Trade-Off" and "2 Second Advantage"
• Treacy and Wiersema's work - as articulated in "The Discipline of Market Leaders"
• The work of many others - which I access - much like a worker's tool-belt - to assist owners of training, technology and consulting companies as they seek to drive revenue growth.

Chris Anderson provides 50 business models based on Free. The Thinking tools presented by "Business Model Generation" will help us implement these models and create brand new models (not necessarily free) - that produce profits for our companies.

How to benefit from this group:

There are 15 initial discussions in this group:

1. Introductions (please introduce yourself and read about the other members)

2. Questions about Business Models (In the beginning....)

Discussions 3 to 11 are dedicated to each component of the model:

3. Customer Segments

4. Value Propositions

5. Channels

6. Customer Relationships

7. Revenue Streams

8. Key Resources

9. Key Activities

10. Key Partnerships

11. Cost Structure

Discussions 12 to 15 are focused on helping us assimilate the content:

12. How did this help you?

13. What's missing?

14. What will you do next?

15. Open Forum related to Business Models

Here is a 72 page preview of the book - Business Model Generation

Additional discussions will be added and described below to build upon the initial 15.

16. Patterns (5 Business Models - to emulate or to inspire innovation)

17. Design (6 Design Techniques - to help business people apply design tools that complement their business skills)

18. Strategy (4 Thinking tools to connect your business to a model)

19. Process (Putting it all together)

20. Outlook (5 Topics - Potential future books)

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