Comments on: Ambition: Building Business Models that Matter

By: Webmarketing

Webmarketing — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:23:02 +0000

I really think that the busines model canvas is a really cool tool to develop something gret for a project, also creating a blue ocean stregy could be a great idea for develop a high value business model. We will always have to be ambisious to create a value with our model.

What do you think?

By: Joost Cornelissen

Joost Cornelissen — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:58:16 +0000

I stumbled across this initiative; an interesting business model that matters – including a nice presentation: http://www.getitdone.org/ .

By: Jim Brown

Jim Brown — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:12:02 +0000

Sell to wealthy hunters and use the profit to buy them for the poor.

Or fold your product into a not for profit – yours or someone elses, and settle for a resonable salary.

This should be easy. Forget selling to poor. Sell the benefit to thoes that have money, a lot of money!

good luck,
Vsioneer

By: Doing Good is Good Business | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)

Doing Good is Good Business | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson) — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:37:17 +0000

[...] new measures of business model success. Based on ideals or “betterness”, these business models will matter, and that’s why they’ll [...]

By: Alexander Osterwalder

Alexander Osterwalder — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:47:11 +0000

Happy to hear that our approach was useful in your context!
Best wishes,
Alex

By: Rosien Herweijer

Rosien Herweijer — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:16:08 +0000

I used your wonderful approach to work with a team of a South African Women’s Fund to model their grant-making venture. The grassroots women in the townships that benefit from the Fund are one key customer group and a variety of donors are the another group. The model helped to find out where you need consistency (in value propositions, drivers of customer relationships and revenue flows) and where you need diversity (channels, partners and activities). Often core processes and fundraising in not-for-profit are totally disconnected: the businessmodel map helps you to connect the two. See also my blog: http://herweijer.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/business-models-in-not-for-profit/

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:44:25 +0000

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By: tim parsey

tim parsey — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:23:28 +0000

Cool points Alex. We’ve just formed a company called shiftalliance which is wholly focused on developing what we call ‘meaningful business models’. What we found was that we could aggregate all the ways that different businesses ( green, socially responsible, web 2.0 etc.) and certain academic areas ( positive psychology for internal cultures, presence based leadership for individuals etc.) create meaningful value for all their stakeholders across the business model into one methodology. We’re seeing some amazing ‘patterns’ which allow businesses to drive commercial success through meaningful value in very unique ways. We’re happy to share our approach if anyone is interested.

By: Alexander Osterwalder

Alexander Osterwalder — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:05:04 +0000

Chad, that sounds like an exciting project. Good luck!

By: Chad Schofield

Chad Schofield — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:52:14 +0000

This seems very relevant to work I’m doing with COMPETE Africa in the African apparel manufacturing sector. We’re at the very beginning of designing a new apparel sourcing model for Africa and involving the manufacturer’s customers in the process to make proposals. I want to thank you for the work you’ve done and the Business Model Canvas as I think I may incorporate it in one of our meetings.