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Lessons from Hilti on What it Takes to Shift from a Product to a Service Business Model
Lessons from Hilti on What it Takes to Shift from a Product to a Service Business Model
In a previous post, we explained how business model patterns can help executives shift from outdated to a more competitive business model…
Frederic Etiemble
Jun 11, 2020
How to Use Patterns to Shift an Outdated Business Model to a More Competitive One
How to Use Patterns to Shift an Outdated Business Model to a More Competitive One
In a previous post, we explained how business model patterns help entrepreneurs and business leaders go beyond the traditional means of…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 27, 2020
How to use patterns to design business models that go beyond technology, product and price
How to use patterns to design business models that go beyond technology, product and price
A lot of startups and established companies are trying to compete on superior technology, products, services and price. They are stuck in…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 15, 2020
How Do You Know If Your Business Is At Risk Of Disruption?
How Do You Know If Your Business Is At Risk Of Disruption?
Over the last weeks the coronavirus disrupted the entire global economy and almost every business on the face of the planet. Yet, Covid-19…
Frederic Etiemble
Mar 31, 2020
The books that most influenced my work in innovation and business transformation in 2019
The books that most influenced my work in innovation and business transformation in 2019
I read many books and articles on business transformation and innovation as part of my research for The Invincible Company in 2019. Among…
Frederic Etiemble
Jan 19, 2020
Executive question: How to keep momentum after a Hack day?
Executive question: How to keep momentum after a Hack day?
I had a coffee chat last week with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of an ASX100 manufacturing company. In a very traditional and…
Frederic Etiemble
Dec 2, 2019
Executive question: How to help Agile teams create products customers actually want?
Executive question: How to help Agile teams create products customers actually want?
Nowadays there is no escaping the Agile hype. Large organisations are “becoming Agile” one after the other, fuelled by hopes of higher…
Frederic Etiemble
Oct 9, 2019
Executive question: How to manage an innovation funnel?
Executive question: How to manage an innovation funnel?
A short while ago, I had a coffee chat with the Chief Digital Officer of an ASX100 consumer goods company who is currently leading the…
Frederic Etiemble
Oct 9, 2019
Innovation coaching: Testing New Business Ideas the Owlet way
Innovation coaching: Testing New Business Ideas the Owlet way
At Strategyzer we often use the Owlet team video from the International Business Model Competition in 2013 to illustrate how to de-risk…
Frederic Etiemble
Oct 9, 2019
Minute innovation learning: Do you always start with the customer?
Minute innovation learning: Do you always start with the customer?
We use the value proposition canvas to help innovation teams design products and services customers actually want. Although one question…
Frederic Etiemble
Jul 31, 2019
Minute innovation learning: are customer pains the opposite of gains?
Minute innovation learning: are customer pains the opposite of gains?
We use the customer profile to map the customer’s jobs-to-be-done (JTBD), pains and gains when working on value proposition design with…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 18, 2019
The books that most influenced my work in innovation and business transformation in 2018
The books that most influenced my work in innovation and business transformation in 2018
This year again I read a lot of articles and books on business transformation and innovation. At the end of 2017 I had shared for the…
Frederic Etiemble
Jan 18, 2019
The blind spot: how to measure progress of innovation projects?
The blind spot: how to measure progress of innovation projects?
Between September 2017 and March 2018, I had the privilege of managing the Strategyzer co-creation project on innovation metrics designed…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 30, 2018
My key take-aways from a day of corporate rebellion in Melbourne
My key take-aways from a day of corporate rebellion in Melbourne
I came across the Corporate Rebels in 2016 as I was doing research on Frederic Laloux. The moment I read the story where they are eating…
Frederic Etiemble
Jan 21, 2018
Books that inspired my work on innovation and business transformation in 2017
Books that inspired my work on innovation and business transformation in 2017
I have always had a passion for ideas and stories, especially those that can inspire people to innovate and solve complex issues. So in my…
Frederic Etiemble
Dec 30, 2017
Hai Di Lao & the unexpected innovation insights from a hot pot restaurant
Hai Di Lao & the unexpected innovation insights from a hot pot restaurant
I believe in the power of stories to inspire people to innovate and solve complex problems, and I have experienced first-hand how well…
Frederic Etiemble
Nov 15, 2017
Bernarda’s Nine
Bernarda’s Nine
Recently I shared the story of how I met my innovation mentor, Greg Bernarda. Now I want to zoom in on one project we did together. Earlier…
Frederic Etiemble
Oct 12, 2017
How I met my innovation mentor!
How I met my innovation mentor!
In this article, I want to tell the story of how I met Greg Bernarda, how Greg became a mentor in my journey to become a business model…
Frederic Etiemble
Oct 1, 2017
Design Principles, the secret weapon I found in the Design Thinking toolbox
Design Principles, the secret weapon I found in the Design Thinking toolbox
Over the past decades, we have seen the rise of design: products, services, customer experiences, interfaces… everything is designed!
Frederic Etiemble
Jun 5, 2017
The three steps of my initiation into business model innovation
The three steps of my initiation into business model innovation
Towards the end of 2013, quite suddenly, I was hit by a corporate life crisis. One day I woke up and couldn’t find any meaning in the work…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 28, 2017
Could Business Romance put an end to your Groundhog Day?
Could Business Romance put an end to your Groundhog Day?
For one second, picture yourself as a researcher 20 years down the line, trying to find the root event that started a profound shift in the…
Frederic Etiemble
Apr 6, 2017
What I learnt designing and facilitating a Strategy Sprint
What I learnt designing and facilitating a Strategy Sprint
We live in a VUCA world, Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. Yes, like others I’m often annoyed with buzzwords, and this one is…
Frederic Etiemble
Mar 14, 2017
What happens when you really trust employees?
What happens when you really trust employees?
A few months ago I heard Nicole Koster’s “humanity over bureaucracy” talk at the Agile conference in Melbourne. She shared the incredible…
Frederic Etiemble
Mar 14, 2017
Why the hype around Agile?
Why the hype around Agile?
In February 2001, a small group of software developers met at the Snowbird resort in Utah to explore better ways of developing software…
Frederic Etiemble
Mar 14, 2017
Just what do you mean by ‘business transformation’?
Just what do you mean by ‘business transformation’?
“Many a false step was made by standing still.” Fortune cookie
Frederic Etiemble
Mar 14, 2017
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