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Today I read a blogpost by Steve Portigal on design and business and discovered a great new tool to upload, store and share powerpoint presentations on the web.
I immediately used it to share a deck of slides I designed to outline the business model concept. The slides briefly outline my understanding of what a business model actually is and how the concept can be used as a business model design template to quickly design and describe the business logic of a company. The template can also be applied together with the business model innovation cycle which I described in an earlier post.
The slides come under a creative commons license and I actively encourage their re-use – as long as the author (alex osterwalder) is mentioned and the license is respected. I’m also interested in your feedback if you’ve applied the template or plan to apply it (email me at my new company: osterwalder(-at-)gmail.com).
You are a real genius! Good job!
Good job it’s quite well done but… the slides are too small, I can’t read them
hi ,
I am trying to use the Business Model Template to understand a Recruitment Agency’s Business. I have taken a view point that Agency is in the business of selling jobs .The companies which have job vacancies are the suppliers. The employees seeking jobs are the customers. The difficulty i am facing is to apply value proposition to the supplier’s side . In this case the supplier is equally important than the Customer. Should i consider taking ‘Brokerage view ‘ of the business ? In this case as well the template is not easily applicable. Please Help !!
Hi Tazeen,
The brokerage view is indeed the right approach. I would have modelled this business case with two value propositions for two different customer segments. One value proposition for organizations seeking employees and one value proposition for job seekers. The revenue stream would come from the former…
Best regards,
Alex
For some reason your authorship attribution vanished from Wikipedia, as well as some other stuff…
I can see why the history-like beginning should be in a different section; or the example quote of an informal business model might be distracting and not representative (do we want to quote all now?); but I think the reference model itself should be represented correctly.
Maybe you can have a look over the edits I did, as I ca
hi there, i am using your business model as a way to assess risks associated with a large toy manufacturer. i am student doing international business and i wonder if you could help me. I am confused on where do toy manufacturers really get their money thus what is their key asset? was it through its large scale production or through distribution or through its brand. Thanks
Please post the real presentation. The silly video is too small to read.
I enjoyed the information on your Blog, and I have watched the slideshow. However, as others have noted, it is quite small. Is there a way to either have the slideshow bigger, or post the actual slides? Perhaps as a locked PDF?
Thanks, keep you the great work!
For those who are struggling with the small size of slideshow.. if you’re running internet explorer 7 you can magnify any webpage upto 200% using the menu in the bottom right hand corner of your web browser.
Thank you so much for making Process so easy to understand, but unfortunately as someone said before it is very hard to read so I am finding it hard to follow do you mind posting the presentation instead
Alex, your method for articulating business models is second to none. The way you demonstrate this through the practical application of YOU as a business is an excellent complement to the content you provide your fans. Thanks again for continuing to look at this age old problem with new and creative lenses. –Jeff
I also worked about BM : http://www.site-communautaire.blogspot.com
Trying this direct link to see the large presentation view:
http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=business-model-template-5677&stripped_title=business-model-template
Inspiring work and excellently executed!
I am working on my thesis which deals with wireless banking, similar to mobile banking concept..I was going through the template to categorise the bank.. from where i see it appears under the financial trader category, but i m not sure.. can you help me out here?
and if u hav any suggestions where i could look up a diagram for a typical banking business model pls let me know!
and keep up the good work!
Excellent work…I also have a query.I am designing a business model for an educational institution lookin at expansion in the near future.Need some assistance on the same.
for those of you struggling with the small size of the slides, there's a "Full screen" control near the bottom right corner of the slides.
[...] model based on the similarities of a wide range of business model conceptualizations. In his business model template (used in the illustration), Osterwalder describes nine building blocks that form a meta-business [...]
Thanks for sharing this but I would appreciate if it could be downloaded
It’s downloadable on slideshare, but you can get our new version: The Business Model Canvas here:
http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/tools