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Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (20 Aug 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0470876417
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470876411
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 24 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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).

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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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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are not many books that present clear and compelling ideas in a graphically engaging format, with a wealth of real-world examples. This is one of the few.
I come from an enterprise architecture background and I have found in this book a practical and down-to-earth modelling approach for Business Architecture.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Very simply: This book has given me tools to understand, analyze, question and develop business models. It provided me a simple framework to think and talk about business models for my ideas, helping me to identify the critical parts of a model.
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Content: Understanding the relationships between the nine key principles - customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships and cost structure - enables one to figure out fairly fast how and why businesses function the way they do. Also, at a very early stage, it becomes clear what is not working in ones own business as well as others. The nine principles or, key elements, can all be explained on one piece of paper, and that is where design thinking comes in. Instead of writing long, arcane and stuffy business plans, this is what one ought to do - figure it all out on one piece of paper first. That said, there are as many permutations and combinations of the nine elements. The authors give examples of how the business models for Google, Apple iPod, etc. work - very, very insightful!

Design: The design of the book has surely got to be one of its greatest plusses - it is a joy to behold. The horizontal format fits naturally in ones hands. The drawings, diagrams, paper, typeface, colours, printing, binding - everything has been carefully thought out, so much so that the design motivates one to learn faster and enjoy the process. Most business plan books are excruciatingly boring and painful to read. The way this book has been designed makes it fast and easy to understand fundamental business processes. Other business books ought to take their lead from this one.

Presentation & Production: The book was co-created by 470 participants from 45 countries. It just goes to show how much time and consideration has been invested in planning the book. It shows in the way the book has been produced. Business Model Generation is an aesthetic delight, making the book memorable and inspiring.

Price: Amazon gave me an almost 50% discount, making the book all the more attractive!

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This book really makes me smile! I get so much pleasure and knowledge out of it! "
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Unconventionnal but interesting
Businnes model generation is a business book like no other. Its format and its design change a lot with the usual business books. Read more
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I really liked this book.
Most of the content is rather basic, but with a sound understanding of the theories behind mixed with practical tips. Read more
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Template for strategic innovation
Billed as a book for "visionaries, game changers and challengers", this introduces a useful new modelling concept: the Business Model Canvas. Read more
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Good service. Keeps in touch and follows up on the purchase. I am very satisfied:) Not much more to say but this is about 20 characters long now, isn't it?
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Most definitely a book to be purchased
Great books for any kind of busines level, from a start-up to a multi-national.I have bought this books and used for my start-up and it helped me a lot and enhanced my focus.
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