Business Model Generation A Handbook for Visionaries Game Changers and Challengers

Author(s): Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur

Business/Economics

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.


Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.


Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation "

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'...an impressively comprehensive compendium of many of the most current ideas concerning the structure and development of businesses.' (Anglohigher.com, May 2011). '... this handbook is likely to prove an excellent help for evaluating business models'. (Anatello.com, July 2011).

Alexander Osterwalder (Lausanne, Switzerland; alexosterwalder.com; businessmodelgeneration.com) is a speaker, workshop facilitator and strategy consultant to organizations in 20 countries on all continents. Besides his speaking engagements, Dr. Osterwalder focuses on executive training in the domain of business model development and innovation. He writes a popular blog on business model innovation at www.businessmodelalchemist.com. Organizations that use the business strategy described in Business Model Generation include 3M, Ericsson, IBM, Telenor, Capgemini, Deloitte, and many more.


Yves Pigneur, PhD, (Lausanne, Switzerland; http: //hecshost.unil.ch/ypigneur/) is a professor of business and head of the Information Systems Institute of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has held visiting professorships at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dr. Pigneur is the chairperson of several conferences (IFIP, ISDSS, AIM). His research has been published in over fifty books, refereed journals and conference proceedings.

The book is divided into five sections: 1 The Business Model Canvas, a tool for describing, analyzing, and designing business models, 2 Business Model Patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, 3 Techniques to help you design business models, 4 Re-interpreting strategy through the business model lens, and 5 A generic process to help you design innovative business models, tying together all the concepts, techniques, and tools in Business Model Generation . The last section offers an outlook on five business model topics for future exploration. Finally, the afterword provides a peek into "the making of" Business Model Generation . 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.

General Fields

  • : 9780470876411
  • : John Wiley & Sons, Limited
  • : John Wiley & Sons, Limited
  • : 0.001
  • : July 2010
  • : 190mm X 242mm X 22mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : illustrations
  • : 288
  • : 658.4/012
  • : English
  • : 610
  • : Paperback
  • : Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur