Work & Cases

Work & Cases

Yellow Jobs: How to enter a market with Business Model Innovation

Luxembourg is a pretty small market. Most industries are dominated by a handful of companies. So is the market for job search portals. Monster.lu and jobs.lu are the leaders and have a combined market share of more than 80%. So how do you enter such a market? With a new business model.

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Work & Cases

How to initiate Business Model Innovation?

This case study outlines a process implemented across 4 divisions of a global, family owned industrial company using a 2 day event as a kick off to develop more than 250 ideas for business model innovations.

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Process & Tools

Business Model Evaluation Scorecard

A simple tool I recently developed with a client to evaluate ideas for business model innovations. The evaluation was used by the board to decide which ideas go into conceptualization and prototyping.

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Work & Cases

Driving innovation through a series of workshops

I recently ran a series of innovation workshops at a major German IT company. The goals were to (1) raise the knowledge of innovation and innovation tools, while (2) at the same time developing ideas for innovations. The project consisted of 3 major steps: First senior management defined areas within which the organization should innovate. [...]

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Work & Cases

Business Model Innovation with the Future Space Workshop

Picture this: 10:00 am Monday morning on a foggy November day in Vienna. Large conference room. About 50 managers waiting for me to open the conference and expecting (probably) the usual welcome blablabla. Instead I went on stage and hit the play button on my iPod. What music you’re wondering? Nine Inch Nails, “Terrible Lie”. Can [...]

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Ideas & Thinking

McCafé: Business Model Innovation at McDonald’s

While Starbucks and Burger King have been suffering this year, global sales have been increasing for seven months in a row at McDonald’s. How exactly is the McCafé a strategic, business model innovation? Let’s have a look at the definition of Strategic Innovation (for more see this post). Strategic Innovation is about: new business models (including a [...]

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