I’m now at over 100 blogposts, which means that many hours went into this blog about business model design and innovation. While I started this blog more as an experiment and as a thinking & knowledge base for myself more and more readers and visitors joined the journey.
Now I even feel the pressure of writing something useful for “my public”. However, since I have to earn a living (and want to spend time with my family: 2 kids!) I allow myself a maximum of 1-3 hours per post – even if it is at the expense of quality.
To get things more focused and offer you real value I would be interested in your feedback about this blog. I already receive a lot of emails regarding the business model concept and some compliments for the blog, but I still get very little feedback helping me improve my blog.
Let me ask you some questions:
- Which parts of my blog do you most enjoy or hate?
- Are the templates I make available useful?
- Do you like the webcasts?
- Do you enjoy the less conceptual postings – e.g. news style?
- What would you want to see more on my blog?
- Can you apply the things I write about in your daily work?
- Did you ever use the search function on my blog?
- Anything else on your mind (related to this blog
Please take a short break to respond to some of the above questions. It would help me improve this blog and increase the value of the time I spend writing (-> Return on Time Investment – RoTI)
Hello Alex,
I just started as a consultant. Together with a partner we are planning to conduct a survey in the dutch publishing industry regarding business models, since the traditional business models are under a lot of pressure. Reason (amongst numerous others) for this pressure is the emergence of free and user generated content.
We decided to use your business model building blocks to describe succesfull new business models we encounter, then we try to generalise them into some kind of framework we can use to help publishing houses to develop or reengineer their business model. We are looking to get some funding for this, as soon as we have we will start this survey.
Alex,
We need more interactivity. More case studies. More examples. More collaboration with other people like Clayton Christensen etc.
Possible ?
regards,
Prashant
Antoine, I will be looking forward to hearing about the results.
Prashant, anything is possible
To all who have written to me extensively off-blog: thanks for the useful input – I’ll give my best to include your great feedback into my blog!
Merry Xmas, Alex
Hi. Thank you so much for your blog. In terms of delivering value to readers you definately rank up there . You are able to convey concepts in a very concise and effective format and rapidly follow it up with a concrete example and practical steps. The kinds posts I like the most are the Strategy Canvas II posts and the CIO interview posts.
I’ve been reading on entrepreneurship for a while now. You’re explanation and templates have really opened up an area of thinking for me that I had not considered before and find very engaging. Finding it in concise blog posts rather than drawn out papers is probably the biggest contributing factor to the ideas presented so engaging.
* Which parts of my blog do you most enjoy or hate?
Anything specific to follow up on concepts is a good thing. Even if its broken up into smaller posts.
* Are the templates I make available useful?
PURE GOLD
* Do you like the webcasts?
The webcasts are very informative. Longer webcasts of workshops or exlanations of concepts and concept comparisons can only be better.
* Do you enjoy the less conceptual postings – e.g. news style?
No not really. The case studies are interesting. I appreciate posting the papers for the case studies. I have worked through the one you posted earlier. A posting of the results you, or your students obtained would be nice to compare with.
* What would you want to see more on my blog?
* Can you apply the things I write about in your daily work?
As a mechanical engineer, not really. But I do read your blog at work alot
Its much more fascinating than what I do.
* Did you ever use the search function on my blog?
I tried. Don’t believe it works. A tag system to navigate with would me much more effective. Especially a category regarding the basic concepts. All of this is gold to me.
* Anything else on your mind (related to this blog
Thank you for your efforts. This truly is a worthwhile contribution in an open and honest transfer of knowledge. I really am surprised at how much I enjoy your blog compared to many of the others I read.