Oliver Gassmann – författare

Platform companies like Amazon, Alibaba, Apple or Google dominate today's economy, and eight out of the ten most valuable companies worldwide follow a platform business model. Platform businesses act as digital intermediaries harnessing the power of networks, thereby outperforming traditional asset-heavy companies.

Every product, service, and retail business has the potential to become a platform business, and The Platform Business Navigator will show you how. With a 5-step framework and 88 different patterns to follow, you can avoid common mistakes and ensure your business strategy works.

Suitable for entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, and business leaders, you'll also discover a huge variety of different business case studies. You can also find additional content online including videos, a platform canvas and a white paper to delve deeper.

A strong business model is the bedrock of business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated business models that are no longer promising the results we need.

The Business Model Navigator allow you to innovate, test and implement new business models within your industry.

Discover the idea of business model innovation, from structuring the process of innovation of a company’s business model to encouraging outside-the-box thinking. With expert authors, The Business Model Navigator combines learning research with evidence of high practical impact, allowing you to master the transformation journey and lead your business to success.

A really comprehensive, all-in book about Patents – strategy, value, management and commercialization. And not forgetting what they are for – foster innovation.

Dr. Joerg Thomaier, Head of IP Bayer Group

“A must-read for every innovator and transformator!”

-       - Franziska Tschudi Sauber, President of the Board, Weidmann Group

"Collaborative Advantage is packed with great examples and useful insights into innovating for the future.  It is an essential guide for anyone interested in Open Innovation."

-       - Henry Chesbrough, author of Open Innovation, Professor UC Berkeley

“In today’s dynamic markets, companies need to collaborate to have access to all assets and capabilities necessary to out-innovate competitors. However, to collaborate effectively is an organizational capability that needs to be build and nurtured. This book shows how.”

-       - Claudio Feser, Co-Founder Leadership Practice McKinsey & Company

“Transformation is a necessity in the new business environment. Collaborative Advantage outlines how to do it in a sustainable way.”

-       - Marianne Janik, CEO Microsoft Germany

The world is changing faster than ever before. Technological disruptions, AI, digital value chains, new ecosystems, and hyper competition are challenging companies. How can managers keep up with the speed of change? Dominant thinking has centered around the concept of ‘competitive advantage,’ - taught to generations of MBA students. But this is no longer enough. Instead, leaders have to think much more in terms of which networks and partnerships they can leverage in order to create and secure the future of their company. Collaborative advantage is the new imperative for the next decades.

This book shows the patterns of the fuzzy front end of innovation and how it can be managed successfully. Topics in this book cover traditional instruments and processes such as technology monitoring, market-oriented research management, lead-user developments, but also modern approaches such as frontloading, user community-driven innovation, crowdsourcing, anthropological expeditions, technological listening posts in global R&D settings, cross-industry innovation processes, open innovation, and IP cycle management. Contributions are based on latest research and cases studies on this new paradigm. The authors investigate this phenomenon, linking the practice of the early innovation phase to the established body of innovation research. Conceptional articles complement case studies to provide the reader with insight on managing the fuzzy front end of innovation. Lessons learned with success factors and checklists complement each chapter.​

Presenting a broad literature review of scholarly work in the area of Business Model Innovation, this new book analyses 50 management theories in the context of BMI to yield valuable new insights. Research on BMI is still in its infancy and has so far proved to be more than just a sub-discipline of strategy or innovation research. Exploring the field of Business Innovation demonstrates the importance of the discipline as a more specialized management research field and offers new understandings of this important subject. It presents ‘grand theories’ that will help researchers approach BMI through a different angle and describes business models as phenomena, enabling readers to understand their patterns and mechanisms. Reviewing the most important academic work on the subject over the last 15 years, the authors aim to open up the debate and inspire researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles. 

This book investigates and highlights the most critical challenges the pharmaceutical industry faces in an increasingly competitive environment of inflationary R&D investments and tightening cost control pressures. The authors present three sources of pharmaceutical innovation: new management methods in the drug development pipeline; new technologies as enablers for cutting-edge R&D; and new forms of cooperation and internationalization, such as open innovation in the early phases of R&D. New models and methods are illustrated with cases from Europe, the US, and Asia. This third fully revised edition was expanded to reflect the latest updates in open and collaborative innovation, the greater strategic importance of venture capital and early-stage investments, and the new range of emerging technologies now being put to use in pharmaceutical innovation.