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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries - Game Changers - and Challengers (portable version)

User Reviews about Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries - Game Changers - and Challengers (portable version)

The book binding is really poor that the pages of my new copy started to become loose as soon as I started opening it. This is good for beginners as a basic and visual introduction to business models.

Recommendation: don't buy. -- Very poor bookbinding quality

Finally a book that gets real about innovation and talks less about why it's important (we all know that) and gets into the nuts and bolts of how to do it: a mix of strategic thinking and cultural shift. This book will help you break out of traditional thought patterns that are getting in the way of fresh thinking. In addition, it practices what it preaches. The method for creating the book was as innovative as the content itself, involving hundreds of people in a mass-collaboration effort. The book is also beautifully designed and a joy to read. Ifnyounare serious about innovation, you must have it on your shelf. -- The building blocks of innovation in a beautiful book!

The other reviewers have already told you what the book says... I would like to tell you what the book can do. Knowing how your business is organized... from who your customers are, to what process you use to deliver your value proposition, to how that creates your revenue streams... all good stuff, and useful. But, you either grow your business or go out of business. There is no standing still. That S.O.B. down the street wants your customers. You need to find new ways to keep them. This book gives you a pattern to not only identify your current business model, but by using the same tools, to also figure out ways to build tomorrow's version of your business.

In fact I would venture to say that there is more information in the book on planning the future than there is on defining your current business model. (If you are just getting started figuring out your business model - this book will help you too; but I suspect that most readers will already be in business - I doubt most rookies would use the phrase 'business model generation' and therefore will come across this book further down their entrepreneurial path.)

And my highest compliment of all is that this is the first business book that I have encountered that is friendly to visual thinkers. Although its an illustrated business book, it feels more like an annotated illustration to me. As most of my staff are designers and artists by education, this method of presenting the information was particularly useful to us. -- Grow your business or go out of business

The authors advise us to synchronize the new
Information Technologies (IT) with the business.
A number of modern models and newer ones are listed. i.e.
(1) the traditional Senior Executive in an organization
(2) the Intrapreneur like [...]
(3) the traditional Entrepreneur
(4) the Investor
(5) the Consultant
(6) the Designer
(7) the Conscientious Entrepreneur (Grameen Phone)

The book describes how organizations and businesspeople
capture value. i.e.
o customer segments
o value propositions
o channels
o customer relations
o revenue streams
o key resources
o key activities
o partners
o cost structures

The authors describe the long tail which has a small number
of best business models in order to maximize revenues
or revenue streams. On LuLu.com virtually any serious
writer can publish . The famous LEGO generates revenues
from a plethora of customer designs.

Overall, the book integrates classic business models
with the newer ones just coming out of the incubator.
As such, the author provides us with useful and practical
information. -- Updating Business Organizational Designs