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Welcome to the BIF Book Group!
For the planners out there, starting May 24th we'll be tearing into our very own Saul Kaplan's first book: The Business Model Innovation Factory. We're so excited to share his thoughts, experiences and ideas with this community. The initial reviews are out, and BMIF is making waves through the innovation community:
"Saul encourages us to play in the grey spaces between the silos, to notice and connect with unlikely suspects, to create spaces of freedom where people have nothing to prove." - Monika Hardy
"Saul emphasizes a very critical, and almost always overlooked, component of business models - the HOW of delivering value."
"If you're in a business that seems to be surrounded by threats - or opportunities - to upend your business model and start something new, I encourage you to take a look at The BMIF." - Greg Matthews
Our community exists with a simple and straight-forward proposition: Great conversation focused on great books about innovation.
Looking forward to getting started!
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What's your principle? 2 Replies
Haque spends most of chapter four exploring Google’s “secret sauce”, their unbelievably unique corporate culture that keeps them so relevant. There’s something comforting about companies who push beyond the corporate jargon of business strategy and…Continue
Tags: disruption, google, capitalism, culture, corporate
Started by Katherine Hypolite in The New Capitalist Manifesto. Last reply by AmandaFenton Dec 30, 2011.
Disrupt or tweak? 7 Replies
Neither a CEO of a Fortune 500 or the “MBA type” I worried I’d have trouble sinking my teeth into the first few chapters of The New Capitalist Manifesto. As I read I realized; although the book is tailored to the topic of capitalism, the lessons…Continue
Tags: systems, disruption, capitalism
Started by Katherine Hypolite in The New Capitalist Manifesto. Last reply by Sandy Maxey Dec 16, 2011.
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Random Collision Theory of Innovation
This post appeared on the Fortune Magazine Site here and was adapted from my new book, The Business Model Innovation Factory. Collaborators are everywhere. You will find them in the gray areas between silos. Just look up from your current business model. Seek out difference and gather often across boundaries, disciplines, and sectors. Be open and [...]The Problem With Design Thinking
This post appeared on the Fortune Magazine site here and was adapted from my new book, The Business Model Innovation Factory. Believe in the power of design. Through it, we will chart the landscape of possibility - designing, testing and prototyping new terrain. Be a market maker rather than a share taker. Business model innovators are always seeking [...]Put Your New Business Model to the Test
This post appeared on the HBR site here and was adapted from my new book, The Business Model Innovation Factory. When a consumer product company wants to know how a new product or new marketing campaign will perform, it doesn’t rely solely on traditional market research surveys. It goes to test markets. It’s the right way [...]Experiment All The Time
This post appeared on the Fortune site here and was adapted from my new book The Business Model Innovation Factory. Learn by doing. Constantly test new ideas. Learn, share and repeat. The world is ever changing — stay ahead of the curve. Embrace the art of discovery. We need to try more stuff. Innovation is never about [...]The Business Model Innovation Factory
Woohoo! The Business Model Innovation Factory is off to the printer and will be published on April 24th. You can learn more about the book and even download the intro for free at www.bmifbook.com. I am so glad that the writing part is done and the fun part of putting the ideas out in traffic, [...]Blog Posts
Great Minds
I was desperately searching for my pen inside my drawer, when I accidentally found out my autograph book which I had been looking out for a long time. Hey stop! Is this not serendipity?…
ContinuePosted by shyam sundar on August 22, 2010 at 4:34am
Doing Innovation
" Unexamined life is not worth living".
What do we infer from those words of wisdom? Is it something like, experimenting and thinking beyond the…
ContinuePosted by shyam sundar on August 19, 2010 at 2:20am
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