Jun 27, 2008

WANTED: Business Model Innovators

Alexander Osterwalder

I would like to conduct a series of short video/phone-interviews with high profile business model innovators for the book project I’m working on. Then I could share them with you through the web…

Please send me some ideas of who I could/should interview. Even better, tell me how I can get in contact with that person (e.g. through your network). I’m looking for business model innovators (not mere innovators ;-) in any possible industry, such as pharma, banking, clothing, … The requirement is that the person is in top management and his company has a certain size (and visibility)

examples:

  • Niklas Zennström (or Janus Friis), KaZaA:Skype:Joost
  • Michael Dell, Dell
  • Stelios Haji-Ioannou, easyJet

I would also be interested in getting your ideas on innovative business model examples in general. Particularly those with a turn-over of over 100 mio USD.

Can you help me out?

6 Responses to “WANTED: Business Model Innovators”

  1. rvandenhoff says:

    You may want to talk to me. I started recently a disruptive meetingconcept businessmodel http://www.seats2meet.com in the Netherlands and we are momentarily working on global expansion

  2. Alex Osterwalder says:

    why not… maybe you could sketch out your business model with our method.

    Best, Alex

  3. rvandenhoff says:

    souds great, how do you want to proceed?

  4. Corey Canfield says:

    I think it would be provicative to include some 100% outsourced models that are working in your book. food for thought.

  5. wouter says:

    Alex, have you seen this story, http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com
    /2008/06/innovation-waits-for-no-man.html) of disruptive business models in the video rental industry? great example of one innovative business model disrupting an earlier innovative business model.

    kind regards, Wouter

  6. Pre Shipment Inspection in China says:

    The impression of China is of thousands of super-efficient electronics companies cranking out components and products with cheap labor. But there’s some really interesting business model innovation going on within the Chinese supply chain mega-machine. One such innovator is a company out of Shenzhen called Cogo Group. I met Jeffrey Kang, the founder and CEO, a couple of days ago when he passed through NYC on a tour aimed at explaining his company to New York equities analysts and money managers.

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