The TVE business model template updates earlier templates with more room for business networks and for quantification of the profit model.
Value Creation Logics
What business are you in? How do you create value? How do you want to create value? Understanding the logic of value creation in your business allows you to understand how to survive and thrive in your ecosystem. Research in business and management suggests there are three kinds of business, namely product, service and platform […]
Extended Enterprises Are Not Ecosystems
Extended enterprises are often confused with business ecosystems. This is a problem, for strategic choices for your extended enterprise are different from strategic choices for your business ecosystem. Let me briefly state the difference and then give some examples. I define an extended enterprise is a system of partnerships designed to create value for customers. […]
A Business Model of the Netflix Ecosyste...
All companies, without exception, create value from their relationships with other business actors in their environment. Together with their competitors and with regulators who set the rules of the game, they form an ecosystem of economic actors that depend on each other to survive and thrive. In the online economy, ecosystems have become vast and […]
What is a Platform?
Every business wants to be a platform, because that is where the big money is to be made. But what are platforms? The literature contains a confusing variety of examples. Search engines, social networks, online marketplaces, operating systems, browsers, the statistical package R, real estate brokers, shopping malls, nightclubs, color TV’s, auto body frames, credit […]
How Gitlab Messed up its Governance
On the 23rd of October, Gitlab users received a message explaining that the Terms of Service were updated so that the enterprise edition of Gitlab would contain telemetry. In plain English, this means that Gitlab Inc. would collect unspecified data from how companies use their enterprise edition of Gitlab and might send it to third […]
Ruled by Mathematics
Some technology gurus believe ecosystems can be ruled by mathematics. Ecosystem governance decisions can be translated into consensus rules that have been proven correct by mathematical game theory. There is no need to trust government, lawyers or other people, investor Ben Horowitz said in an interview. You can use a blockchain to manage assets and […]
Design thinking (3): Prototyping Busines...
In my previous blog, I explained how prototyping and process management are two ways to manage uncertainty in design. In this blog, I elaborate on levels of certainty in prototyping business ideas and integrate the different strands of my argument in one picture. The basic problem of design is that we want to know something […]
What is Design Thinking (2): Managing U...
In my previous blog , I explained that the logical core of design thinking is the design cycle: investigate the problem context, design possible solutions, validate them. In all stages of the design cycle, the designer faces uncertainty that must be managed. Investigate the problem context. There will never be total certainty about what is […]
What is Design Thinking (1): The Design...
Proponents of design thinking want us to believe that design is a playful process that involves yellow post-its with ideas written on them, and kindergarten tools to make prototypes. This is a gross simplification of design. The design process may be tedious, may involve wicked trade-offs, and may involve math and software simulations to validate […]