Alexander Osterwalder – författare

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestsellers, Business Model Generation and Value Proposition DesignAlex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneurs’ Business Model Canvas changed the way the world creates and plans new business models. It has been used by corporations and startups and consultants around the world and is taught in hundreds of universities. After years of researching how the world’s best companies develop, test, and scale new business models, the authors have produced their definitive work. The Invincible Company explains what every organization can learn from the business models of the world’s most exciting companies.The book explains how companies such as Amazon, IKEA, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Logitech, have been able to create immensely successful businesses and disrupt entire industries. At the core of these successes are not just great products and services, but profitable, innovative business models--and the ability to improve existing business models while consistently launching new ones.The Invincible Company presents practical new tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating innovation, and strategies for reducing risk when launching new business models. Serving as a blueprint for your growth strategy, The Invincible Company explains how to constantly stay ahead of your competition.In-depth chapters explain how to create new growth engines, change how products and services are created and delivered, extract maximum profit from each type of business model, and much more. New tools—such as the Business Model Portfolio Map, Innovation Metrics, Innovation Strategy Framework, and the Culture Map—enable readers to understand how to design invincible companies.The Invincible Company:●    Helps large and small companies build their growth strategy and manage their core simultaneously●    Explains the world's best modern and historic business models●    Provides tools to assess your business model, innovation readiness, and all of your innovation projectsPresented in striking 4-color, and packed with practical visuals and tools, The Invincible Company is a must-have book for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovation professionals.

Business Model Generation är en praktisk, inspirerande handbok för alla som vill förbättra en affärsmodell – eller utforma en ny.Förändra ditt sätt att tänka kring affärsmodeller I Business Model Generation får du lära dig effektiva och praktiska innovationstekniker som används av framgångsrika företag världen över. Du får lära dig hur man på ett systematiskt sätt förstår, utformar och implementerar en ny affärsmodell – eller analyserar och moderniserar en gammal.470 Affärsstrategier har medverkat Business Model Generation gör precis vad den säger. Boken har skrivits gemensamt av 470 praktiker från 45 länder och har finansierats och producerats utan stöd från den traditionella förlagsbranschen. Den har en starkt integrerad, visuell och platt design, vilket gör att man kan tillämpa den direkt i det dagliga arbetet.Utformad för nytänkare Business Model Generation har skrivits för människor som är beredda att överge föråldrade sätt att tänka och i stället tillägna sig nya, innovativa modeller för värde-skapande: chefer, konsulter, entreprenörer – och ledare i alla organisationer.

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resistValue Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell.Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want.Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by new product meetings based on hunches and intuitions; it’s for anyone who has watched an expensive new product launch fail in the market. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won’t work. You’ll learn the simple process of designing and testing value propositions, that perfectly match customers’ needs and desires.In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com. You will be able to assess your work, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more.Value Proposition Design is an essential companion to the ”Business Model Canvas” from Business Model Generation, a tool embraced globally by startups and large corporations such as MasterCard, 3M, Coca Cola, GE, Fujitsu, LEGO, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.Value Proposition Design gives you a proven methodology for success, with value propositions that sell, embedded in profitable business models."

A practical guide to effective business model testing7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of Alex Osterwalder’s global bestseller Business Model Generation, this practical guide contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas.Testing Business Ideas explains how systematically testing business ideas dramatically reduces the risk and increases the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. It builds on the internationally popular Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas by integrating Assumptions Mapping and other powerful lean startup-style experiments.Testing Business Ideas uses an engaging 4-color format to: Increase the success of any venture and decrease the risk of wasting time, money, and resources on bad ideasClose the knowledge gap between strategy and experimentation/validationIdentify and test your key business assumptions with the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition CanvasA definitive field guide to business model testing, this book features practical tips for making major decisions that are not based on intuition and guesses. Testing Business Ideas shows leaders how to encourage an experimentation mindset within their organization and make experimentation a continuous, repeatable process.

Take advantage of a powerful visual management tool for teams as you work together and deliver great results. It's been used by thousands of teams for project success!59% of U.S. workers say that communication is their team's biggest obstacle to success, followed by accountability at 29% (Atlassian). High-Impact Tools for Teams explains a simple, powerful tool that helps team leaders and members align and get clarity on exactly who is responsible for each part of the team's most important activities and projects. The tool is complemented by 4 trust add-ons that help teams build trust and increase psychological safety, so every member can be confident in sharing ideas or concerns about obstacles the team may face. It's a proven tool for project teams, based on years of research, and thousands of teams are already using the Team Alignment Map to run effective "get-to-action meetings", give projects a good start and de-silo organizations. Co-author Alex Osterwalder is the international best-selling author who co-created the Business Model Canvas, a strategic management tool used by 1 million+ industry leaders globally. Plan as a team and know who does whatUncover and proactively remove the most likely obstacles to any projectBoost team member contributionsRun more effective team meetings Get more successful projectsWith the guidance of High-Impact Tools for Teams, you can be better prepared as a team leader or team member to plan effectively, reduce risks, and collaborate with others. Your team will be accountable and ready to deliver results!

The Authoritative Library for Business Leaders, Thinkers, and DoersThe Strategyzer Box Set includes five bestsellers from Alex Osterwalder and his co-authors that are among the most influential, inspiring, and practical business books published in the 21st century. This is the library of innovation-focused tools and thinking that has inspired and challenged over 2 million business leaders and consultants in 40 languages, and is used in 250 business schools around the world.The Strategyzer Box Set captures, in stunning 4-color visuals, the most important ideas and tools every leader needs to drive growth in the modern business world. If your mission involves leading people and teams, transforming business models, innovating products and services, testing exciting but risky new ideas, or leading your organization through a world full of chaos, competition, and change, The Strategyzer Box Set is the most valuable, highest-ROI advisor you will ever consult.Packaged in a sophisticated and subtly-designed box, the five-volume set is an attractive complement to any leader’s desk or office, and a gift that communicates the highest respect. The Strategyzer Box Set includes: The Invincible Company explains how to reinvent your organization and make it last — with inspiration from the world's best business models.High-Impact Tools for Teams describes powerful tools for aligning your people around a mission, getting accountability and delivering results in fast-paced, uncertain and complex projects.Testing Business Ideas explains how to increase the success of any venture through rapid experimentation.Value Proposition Design helps you tackle a core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy.Business Model Generation teaches you how to systematically understand, design and differentiate your business model.

GLOBAL HIT•Finally, a book that shows you how to replace career uncertainty with career confidence, step-by-stepBefore they make important decisions, entrepreneurs, scientists, and other professionals maximize results and minimize risk by testing future scenarios using models. Now you, too, can use models to test career decisions: with the single-page visual method that's already helping hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide.Careers were complicated enough before explosive changes swept the world, igniting even greater complexity and triggering uncertainty—along with hidden opportunities. All of this compels professionals to reinvent how they work. But how?The key is to draw a visual "picture" of your work—a model—that quickly gives you an entirely new understanding of what your work means to employers, customers, colleagues—and you. This model instantly triggers new insights and identifies next career moves you can make with confidence.Readers of the first edition of Business Model You will find this all-new, full-color book deepens their understanding of the method with new tools and techniques including the Work Model Canvas, Outward Focus, Third Objects, The Three Questions, the "Passion" Myth, the Valuable Work Detector, and Reasons to Choose You. Examples covering 50 occupations in both commercial and not-for-profit sectors are features, all alphabetically indexed at the front of the book.A global hit available in 20 languages, Business Model You pioneered the model-based approach to work reinvention that's been adopted for use by thousands of corporations, universities, and not-for-proit organizations worldwide. Want to replace career uncertainty with career confidence? Reinvent the most important model of all: Business Model You.