Business Model Innovation

How to change your innovation mindset from the product / technology paradigm to business model innovation, and deliver transformative added value to your customers.

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Alibaba, the Retail Operating System

Even more aggressively than Amazon, Alibaba positions itself from an e-commerce platform to a full-fledged retail operating system.

This is not so much about the shiny tech toys embedded in flagship automated stores, as much as absorbing every mom and pop stores by a fully integrated OS. This paints a future where the smallest corner shop will have to be connected to Alibaba or not be relevant anymore for its closest consumers. This will also build in just a few years a tremendous amount of real-time data on what people need from groceries, to drugs or cars in every part of any given

Such strategy (as I already pointed out this summer) also allows to build new form of added values. It may be by allowing to try a new car without appointment, extend your delivery options, and get access to very localized offers.

I remember fondly in the 90s where Zara was the most modern example in retail of integrating in-store data to manufacturing and supply chain. They were riding horses. Alibaba has invented the car.

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The only four problems that innovators can solve

Running a regular business is not a simple thing, but it’s at least well documented and can be taught in various ways. It’s comparable to classical mechanics. Innovation on the other hand is the quantum physics of classical business. When its counter-intuitiveness has been laid out for you, you immediately feel like you get it. Then you need to get involved in it and you realize that you just don’t get it.

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Entretien avec Nicolas Nova sur les différents modèles d’innovation

En fin d’année dernière, Nicolas NOVA m’avait interviewé sur “Les enjeux des différents modèles d’innovation”. Cet entretien était réalisé dans le cadre  des travaux de la direction de Prospective et du Dialogue Public de la Métropole de Lyon sur les modèles d’innovation. Vous trouverez l’article dans sa publication originale ici et des points complémentaires plus bas. 

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Mesurer l’intensité de l’innovation

Après mon article d’hier, il me semblait nécessaire d’aller au bout de la seule discussion technique que je commençais à soulever. Voici donc dans les grandes lignes un outil permettant de mesurer l’intensité de l’innovation. L’outil que j’ai choisi parmi cinq différents est celui que nous utilisons le plus en routine. Pour la petite histoire, je l’avais posée en 2008, quand je faisais encore des levées de fonds, pour permettre à des équipes de startups de communiquer avec leur banque.

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De old school à pure player : remixer son business model

J’interviens demain à Lyon lors de la conférence Blend sur le sujet en titre. Le pitch global de la présentation est le suivant :

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Business Model Innovation Entrepreneurship

Stop pitching long tail business models

The long tail concept as it was introduced by Jeff BEZOS a few years ago with Amazon (and further explained by Chris ANDERSON), has destroyed what was the common sense approach of running a commerce. Before Amazon was a success, the common sense dictated that the Pareto rule was enforced: 20% of the products will command 80% of the sales. In some markets, like movies, music, video-games… it was even more extreme with only a few block-busters returning money each year.

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New class on Business Model Design for Kedge Business School MBA

A few months ago, Kedge Business School was born from the strategic reunion of BEM (Bordeaux Ecole de Management) and Euromed Management. This new school is already an impressive business education platform, with more than 10,000 students in France, North-Africa, and China.

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Business Models of Digital Markets / part 1

I’m giving a 2 days course on the business models of digital markets, for the Master students in Digital Marketing of the International University of Monaco. As a preview, this are the slides for tomorrow session:

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43 Innovations de business model

Je vous proposais en novembre dernier de sélectionner des articles à paraître sur le blog, parmi douze possibles. Après avoir traité de l’échec des méthodologies d’innovation, de “small is beautiful” et de la façon dont l’innovation se crée dans les erreurs de prédiction des experts… Essayons donc aujourd’hui de vous donner un aperçu de notre radar de l’innovation de business model :

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Comment Twitter innove son business model

Depuis son lancement en 2006, Twitter est un outil social difficile à expliquer au néophyte. Et si vous ne l’avez jamais utilisé, observez-moi avec attention ne même pas essayer de le faire. Ceci étant Twitter est un vrai succès dans l’univers brutal du web 2.0. Avec plus de 140 millions d’utilisateurs et 340 millions de tweets quotidiens, Twitter a grignoté une place confortable dans l’ombre de Facebook, rendant des services insoupçonnables à son lancement.

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Économie de l’innovation à l’école des Mines

J’en parlais il y a peu et comme prévu, nous avons entamé avec Frédéric Rychen, maître de conférence à l’université d’Aix-Marseille, un cours en tandem à l’école des Mines.  Ce cours essaye de mettre en relation les grands mécanismes de l’innovation du point de vue de l’entreprise et des marchés, et les mécanismes économiques sous-jacents. Pour cela nous avons la chance de pouvoir faire ce cours ensemble, en discutant de nos points de vue respectifs (et potentiels désaccords) avec les élèves ingénieurs présents.

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How to deal with customers problem and solution explanation with the business model canvas

September is a special time for me. Essentially, on top of my usual work with startups and large corporations, I’m teaching innovation and business strategy for different Master classes. To say that I’m a bit busy is a gentle understatement, but what can I say, I love that. These last weeks I have parked a few ideas for new posts on the blog. But before I can find some time to explore them further and share them with you, let me just share something that I posted on Quora a few weeks ago, where a question was asked on the business model canvas.

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