Archive for October, 2007

Oct 29, 2007

Victor Lombardi and Jess McMullin speaking in Europe

Alexander Osterwalder

Two people who are at the forefront of thinking on the intersection between business and design will be speaking in Europe this November. Though this is not 100% related to business model design, I believe they promote the kind of tools & techniques that are necessary to come up with sound business models. I very much value their contributions of bringing design thinking to business.

Victor and Jess will be first speaking at the IA Konferenz 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany (9./10. November).

Jess will also speak at the Italian IA Summit 2007 in Trento, Italy (16./17. November).

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Oct 23, 2007

Conference Talk: Innovating the Business Model (Dublin, Ireland)

Alexander Osterwalder

I will be speaking at the “Innovating the Business Model” conference organized by Enterprise Ireland, tomorrow, Wednesday 24th of October.

I’m quite excited to be the closing speaker of the conference, since the opening speaker is Professor Henry Chesbrough, author of the books “Open Business Models” and “Open Innovation“. I had a chance to meet Henry this evening and he is a really great guy. It’s wonderful to meet one of the mentors of the open enterprise concept which we apply day after day at our consulting firm Arvetica.

So in the spirit of open knowledge, please find below the set of slides that I will be presenting tomorrow:

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Oct 13, 2007

Course (in German) on Modeling Business Models – Day 4 of 4 half-days

Alexander Osterwalder

Here day Nr.4 (last day) of a course I was teaching at a Masters class on “Modeling Business Models” at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule Luzern).

At the end of the class lecture the students presented their group projects. I had asked each group to model the business model of a start-up business they should come up with. I told them that part of their grades would come from the way they presented the story of their start-up. The groups did a fantastic job in their presentations and really integrated the story telling factor. It was a quite a fun experience for all in the classroom.

Apologies a last time for those who don’t read German. We’re back to English from the next postings onwards ;-)

Here the slides of the last lecture:

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