How Collaborative Business Modeling Can Be Used to Jointly Explore Sustainability Innovations

How Collaborative Business Modeling Can Be Used to Jointly Explore Sustainability Innovations
Author: Lars Konnertz
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
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Sustainability innovations are characterized by a systemic nature, which can only be developed if multiple firms work together. To jointly identify opportunities and plan such sustainability innovations, new methods and approaches are needed. In this article we describe a case study conducted in the German energy market, where business modeling has been used in a collaborative fashion. After describing this collaborative business modeling (CBM) approach, we discuss its strengths and limitations and compare it to the alternative methods of innovation planning: scenario technique and roadmapping. We find that it has its particular strengths in creating a multitude of ideas and solutions, overcoming the obstacle of different terminologies and facilitating planning, implementation and decision-making. We conclude that in a situation where fundamental discussions and understanding about new markets are needed, CBM can contribute to explore a new business field with a holistic perspective.

Collaborative Business Modeling for Systemic and Sustainability Innovations

Collaborative Business Modeling for Systemic and Sustainability Innovations
Author: René Rohrbeck
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Release: 2014
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Sustainability innovations are characterized by a systemic nature, and require that multiple organizations act in an orchestrated fashion. To jointly identify opportunities and plan sustainability innovations, new methods and approaches are needed. In this article we describe a case study where 8 firms have collaborated to envision and create new business models in the energy industry. After describing this collaborative business modelling (CBM) approach, we discuss its strengths and limitations and compare it to two alternative methods of strategy and innovation planning: scenario technique and roadmapping. We find that CBM has its particular strengths in promoting creativity, dealing with uncertainty, and providing a platform for both strategic discussions and planning the future architecture of an emerging market.

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration
Author: Joseph Sarkis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048131596

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North America. Prominent policy makers, scientific researchers and practitioners in this field provide various inputs and analyses relating to the development of sustainable innovations. It is expected that policy makers, organizations, individual researchers, students and even communities can further develop and implement concepts and practices by drawing on the variety of projects and theoretical foundations presented in this volume.

Collaborative Business Modelling for Systemic and Sustainability Innovations

Collaborative Business Modelling for Systemic and Sustainability Innovations
Author: René Rohrbeck
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
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Sustainability innovations are characterized by a systemic nature and require that multiple organizations act in an orchestrated fashion. To jointly identify opportunities and plan sustainability innovations, new methods and approaches are needed. In this article we describe a case study where 8 firms have collaborated to envision and create new business models in the energy industry. After describing this collaborative business modelling (CBM) approach, we discuss its strengths and limitations and compare it to two alternative methods of strategy and innovation planning: scenario technique and road mapping. We find that CBM creates a powerful platform for jointly identifying economic and societal value, defining value creation/value capture systems, and planning of complex and uncertain future markets.

Developing Sustainable Business Models (Chapter 11 from Disrupt Together)

Developing Sustainable Business Models (Chapter 11 from Disrupt Together)
Author: Stephen Spinelli Jr.
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2014-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133950506

To succeed, every innovation needs to be paired with the right business model. Now, discover how to create the best possible business model for every new opportunity – and integrate business modeling into a complete innovation framework that works! Developing Sustainable Business Models is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough approach to innovation: one that links business, design and engineering, and delivers extraordinary results in both new and existing ventures. First, Dr. Stephen Spinelli and Heather McGowan introduce this "Disrupt Together" approach, explain its deep roots in design thinking, and show how it generates far more high-value ideas for innovation. Next, Nabil Harfoush drills down to focus specifically on business modeling for new innovations. Harfoush shows how to develop and evaluate several alternative business models, identify and pursue the most promising combinations, and then develop detailed business plans that widen your strategy options and offer higher ROI potential. Along the way, he introduces techniques that promote collaboration across various business lines, helping you overcome obstacles and inefficiencies that often slow down the process of taking innovations to market. Developing Sustainable Business Models is one of 15 e-chapters addressing all facets of innovation, from design processes and team development to business models and value delivery. Each is crafted by a pioneering business innovator – and they all integrate into today's most coherent, realistic blueprint for innovation. For all entrepreneurs, executives, managers, strategists, and students who want to drive more value from innovation. Nabil Harfoush is Director of Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD University in Toronto, and Assistant Professor in its Strategic Foresight and Innovation Masters Program. He leads a research group on Strongly Sustainable Business Models. He is a Fellow at Philadelphia University, where he teaches Business Model Innovation. He has over 40 years of experience as engineer, executive, entrepreneur, and educator. He has consulted for enterprises, governments, the World Bank, WHO, UNESCO, and IDRC, and has served as CIO of several technology companies. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering and a Ph.D. summa cum laude in digital data communications.

Business Models for Sustainability

Business Models for Sustainability
Author: Peter E. Wells
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781001537

Business Models for Sustainability breaks new ground by combining three important insights. First, achieving sustainability requires socio-technical transitions that entail new technologies, production processes, lifestyles, and consumption patterns. Second, firms play crucial roles in mediating between sustainable production and consumption. Third, radical innovations require organizational innovations and new business models. Peter Wells successfully combines these big picture ideas with rich in-depth case studies drawing on years of accumulated expertise. Highly recommended. Frank W. Geels, University of Manchester, UK and Chairman of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network With increasing awareness that innovative technology alone is insufficient to make sustainable lifestyles a reality, this book brings into sharp focus the need to create radical new business models. This insightful book provides a theoretically grounded but also realistic account of how the design of business models can be a critical component in the overall transition to sustainability, and one that transcends the usual focus on innovative technology. Weaving together key principles and components for business sustainability, the book highlights five very different pathways to the future for sectors ranging from microbreweries and printing through to clothing, mobility and plastics. Business has only just started the first few tentative steps towards a very different approach to creating and sustaining value, but this book concludes that enormous opportunities will emerge alongside new ways of creating and capturing value. Academics and postgraduate students in the fields of sustainable business, business organisations and industrial ecology will find this book brings a greater understanding of business strategy and structure to the discipline. While traditionally referenced and structured, this academic book is accessibly written with key principles that may also appeal to the consultant community.

Business Models for Sustainability Transitions

Business Models for Sustainability Transitions
Author: Annabeth Aagaard
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030775801

Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. ‘Business Models for Sustainability Transitions’ therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciously consume our way out of trouble. This book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us. For researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the coupling of the two questions has the potential to unlock answers to our grand global challenges with responses that are at the same time rapid and enduring. This work offers unique and considered glimpses into what it may take to harness wide-ranging innovations for the collective good.

Sustainable Business Models

Sustainable Business Models
Author: Annabeth Aagaard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319932756

This book provides a comprehensive exploration into the identification and development of sustainable business models as well as their implementation, management and evaluation. With ever-increasing pressure on organisations to respond to societal change and improve competition through sustainable business model innovation (SBMI), this book aims to contribute to the knowledge of their design and management. The chapters explore the role of partnerships, the Internet of Things and the circular economy, among other factors, in developing SBM and how SBMI is facilitated through ideation and in entrepreneurial settings. Providing new typologies, patterns and a framework to evaluate the level of sustainability of business models, this book critically reviews existing literature on the topic to examine the potential of SBMI in research and in practice. The contributing authors employ a number of case studies and case examples to illustrate the integration of sustainable business models throughout the value chain, and their influence on wider social, environmental and business activities.

Sustaining Innovation

Sustaining Innovation
Author: Steven P MacGregor
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461420768

In many ways, the process of innovation is a constant social dance, where the best dancers thrive by adapting new steps with multiple partners. The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple, often competing agendas and needs to work together fruitfully over the long term. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, business leaders, and policymakers representing North America, Europe, India, Africa, and Australasia, this volume investigates different combinations of collaborative arrangements among innovation actors, many of which are changing conventional expectations of institutional relationships. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that no particular combination has emerged as the most dominant, or even resilient, model of innovation. Several authors expand on our understanding of the triple helix model, with both academics and practitioners looking to the quadruple helix (encompassing business, academic, government, and civil society) as the new standard. Other authors address aspects of open innovation, co-creation, and user-centered design—all testaments to the rapidly shifting landscape. At the same time, many businesses, academics, and governments, not to mention non-profit organizations, foundations, and society at large, are active in conversations about how to pursue a more sustainable model of innovation. The pursuit of this holy grail of innovation is both facilitated and complicated by an ever-accelerating technological environment in which social networking and mobile tools are emerging as new dance arenas.

Innovation for Sustainability

Innovation for Sustainability
Author: Nancy Bocken
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319973851

The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining work from both emerging and established scholars in different academic fields, this book provides an integrated understanding of the topic from four perspectives. First, the big picture: frameworks, types, and drivers; second, strategy and leadership; third, measurement and assessment and fourth, tools, methods and technologies. Chapter 11 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The editors donate their remuneration for this book to conservation organisation the WWF.