Best Practices - Is Your Business Model Creative?
HOW TO DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY:
BLUEPRINTS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND GROWTH
Speaker: Alexander Osterwalder, PhD Managing Partner, Arvetica
Author, Speaker & Advisor on Business Model Innovation
There has never been a better time to focus on what remains the most critical question facing many organizations both big and small - how do you make money? A business model is nothing else than a detailed representation of how this process works. In today's complex and changing marketplace, how do you ensure that your team is creatively designing alternative business models to achieve competitive advantage?
Join us for this hands-on workshop led by renowned business model designer Alexander Osterwalder to learn his simple but powerful and systematic approach that allows you to rapidly prototype new business models. In this session you will learn how to use a series of business model “building blocks” to construct a "business model canvas." In this interactive session, participants will construct their own business model based on a business scenario, which will be chosen during the workshop.
DATE | TIME | LOCATION
October 9, 20088:30AM - 12:00PM
MaRS Centre CR-3
101 College St.
Toronto, ON
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Anybody interested in practicing business model innovation: Managers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, business strategists, consultants, academics, students, venture capitalistsSESSION GOALS
- Gain an understanding of why business model innovation is an important strategic tool in today's competitive environment
- Learn the essential “building blocks” to sketching out innovative business model
- Get hands on experience building a business model prototype
SPONSORS
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REGISTRATION
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
A leading thinker on business model design, Alex is best known for his work with clients in the private banking sector in his role as Managing Partner at Arvetica, a strategic management-consulting firm based in Geneva.Alex has developed worldwide recognition for his advancement of business model ideas related to innovation which he regularly contributes through his blog http://business-model-design.blogspot.com. He is also currently working on a book on business model innovation with Prof. Yves Pigneur of the University of Lausanne. He holds a PhD and Masters degree from the HEC Business School of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
AGENDA
| 8:15am | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:55am | Introductory remarks |
| 9:00am | Workshop begins |
| 10:30am | Coffee break |
| 12:00pm | Workshop ends |
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Best Practices: Is Your Business Model Creative? - June 3, 2008
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MaRS Best Practices Series - From bench top to IND - April 24, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - IP Strategies for Medical Devices - April 7, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - Doing Business with the National Institutes of Health (NIH): Opportunities for industry - March 29, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - How to Draft a Patent Application - March 20, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - IP Strategies for Therapeutics - February 28, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - IP Strategies for Diagnostics - February 23, 2008
MaRS Best Practices Series - How to Draft a Patent Application - December 12, 2007
MaRS Best Practices Series - Focus on CNS Pharma deals: How to pull in the money - May 23, 2007
MaRS Best Practices Series - Pre-Clinical development workshop - MaRS Best Practices Series - Asymmetric Communications: Building Momentum through Non-Traditional Marketing
- April 11, 2007
MaRS Best Practices Series - Intellectual Property and Valuation of Emerging Medical Therapeutics - November 21, 2006
MaRS Best Practices Series - Business, Science, Technology and You: Financing R&D through Canada’s SR&ED Program - November 9, 2006
MaRS Best Practices Series - Introduction to Systems Biology - September 14, 2006
MaRS Best Practices Series - From Bench to Headline: Translating science for the media - September 8, 2006
MaRS Besst Practices Series - The Power of Pictonics: Using visualizations to tell your technology story - July 12, 2006
MaRS Best Practices Series - Why commercializing a technology is really, really hard to do - May 17, 2006
MaRS Best Practices Series - So what? Who cares? Why you? - April 5, 2006
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