Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation
Author: Alexander Osterwalder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118656407

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 B Corp Handbook

The B Corp Handbook
Author: Ryan Honeyman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626560447

Using Business as a Force for Good Join a Growing Movement: Learn how you can join more than 1,000 Certified B Corporations from 80 industries and 35 countries—led by well-known icons like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's and disruptive upstarts like Warby Parker and Etsy—in a global movement to redefine success in business. Build a Better Business: Drawing on interviews, tips, and best practices from over 100 B Corporations, author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman shows that using business as a force for good can help you attract and retain the best talent, distinguish your company in a crowded market, and increase customer trust, loyalty, and evangelism for your brand. More than 1,000 companies from 80 industries and 30 countries are leading a global movement to redefine success in business. They're called B Corporations—B Corps for short—and these businesses create high-quality jobs, help build stronger communities, and restore the environment, all while generating solid financial returns. Author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman worked closely with over 100 B Corp CEOs and senior executives to share their tips, advice, and best-practice ideas for how to build a better business and how to meet the rigorous standards for—and enjoy the benefits of—B Corp certification. This book makes the business case for improving your social and environmental performance and offers a step-by-step “quick start guide” on how your company can join an innovative and rapidly expanding community of businesses that want to make money and make a difference.

The Savvy Entrepreneur's Business Handbook: A Strategic Guide to Fundraising, Networking, Market Fit and More

The Savvy Entrepreneur's Business Handbook: A Strategic Guide to Fundraising, Networking, Market Fit and More
Author: Tallis Salamatian
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1792313519

When I was first starting out in entrepreneurship I was looking for a golden goose mentor that could give me the formula for success. There isn't one. One exceptionally bright friend shared with me that mentors, like anyone, draw from their experience and there can be multiple paths to the same outcome. In this book I distill my 15 years of executive experience in multiple industries. I give you multiple ways to solve the issues that will arise when running a start-up.The content is organized chronologically to help you through starting your first or next venture, including templates for an executive summary, pitch deck and financials. This book is designed to be everything you'll need to know in one place.

Obvious Adams

Obvious Adams
Author: Robert R. Updegraff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781420929416

"Alone sat a man at a table by a window in the Dickens Room of the Tip Top Inn, Chicago. He has finished his dinner and was apparently waiting his black coffee to be served. Two men entered and were shown to a table near by. Presently one of them glanced at the man by the window. 'See that man over there?' he whispered to his companion. 'Yes, ' said the latter, looking disinterestedly in the direction indicated. 'Well, that is Obvious Adams.' 'Is that so?' And he almost turned in his chair this time to get a good look at the most-talked-of man in the advertising business. 'Ordinary-looking man, isn't he?'"-So begins Robert R. Updegraff's "Obvious Adams".

Handyman's Handbook

Handyman's Handbook
Author: David Koenigsberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071416702

The ONLY book available that provides a blueprint for running a successful handyman business. Filled with hands-on, how-to information and dozens of time-saving tips, this resource is valuable to anyone who enjoys working with their hands and wants to be happily - and profitably - self-employed.