Car for hire business model case Uber

Taxis, whose business model has hardly changed since the invention of the tax meter in the 1940s, have a lot to worry about…   This website is moved to another service provider. Please, move to a new site: https://www.nordicleadership.ai/ This blog includes my blogs from 2011 to 2015.    

Entertainment Company Business Model Canvas – Case Rovio Entertainment

Entertainment Company Business Model Canvas - Case Rovio Entertainment Must-Win Battles: Brand Awareness (Marketing) Story & Customer Loyalty (Resources) Quality of Partners (Partners) Capability to Grow (Process) This website is moved to another service provider. Please, move to a new site: https://www.nordicleadership.ai/ This blog includes my blogs from 2011 to 2015.  

Business Model Canvas of Discount Airline case study – Southwest Airlines

The low-cost airline’s Must-Win Battles are: Very low ticket prices (customer) The high utilization rate of a fleet of aircraft (growth, routes) Efficiency through simple structures (processes) Lean and productive personnel (resources) Compare this illustration of a business model to strategy model approach with quite identical modeling elements:   This website is moved to another … Continue reading Business Model Canvas of Discount Airline case study – Southwest Airlines

Must-Win Battles as Model of Strategy

Lessons learnt: Get started Inspire towards difference Incentives & drivers Commitment Be agile   This website is moved to another service provider. Please, move to a new site: https://www.nordicleadership.ai/ This blog includes my blogs from 2011 to 2015.

Rovio business model – entertainment strategy logic

Rovio business model - entertainment strategy logic From Rovio's homepage: "Rovio is an entertainment media company, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise." Rovio's homepage >> This statement means that Rovio is not just games. A dominant logic (strategy logic) of Rovio's business model is here that sales of games are not … Continue reading Rovio business model – entertainment strategy logic

Strategic Agile Business Development

Agility in management, organizing, and infrastructure Management emphasizes immediate results, especially during the depression. Managers often claim to have their eyes fixed on the future. Still, the reality tells a different story – why is it that sales meetings always handle those deals that were never closed or the problems with clients, or the manager … Continue reading Strategic Agile Business Development

Strategic agility – Agility must first be introduced to the way of thinking

We are often bound by our old habits, whereas an agile mind can find new perspectives. The desired state can be reached by answering the following questions: why do we exist and what will our market position be in the future. Our strategic alertness may have been lowered if our desired state and our brands … Continue reading Strategic agility – Agility must first be introduced to the way of thinking

Low-cost Airline’s Strategy Model Analysis: Southwest Airlines

Case Southwest Airlines Must-Win Battles & Strategy Model About 40 years ago, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher got together and decided to start a different kind of airline. Southwest Airlines founded in 1971, and it was a novel business model innovation that breaks all the rules. They began with a straightforward notion: If you get your … Continue reading Low-cost Airline’s Strategy Model Analysis: Southwest Airlines

20 quotes about innovation, agile strategy and leadership

I selected 20 quotes about innovation, agile strategy and leadership for you. My favorite is Edison's quote  "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts | W. Churchill It is always … Continue reading 20 quotes about innovation, agile strategy and leadership

Apple’s success seems like magic: The Business Innovation Funnel has 2nd side

Did Apple "any" innovations or just business innovations? In Bloomberg's article Richard P. Rumelt offers another explanation: "To many people, Apple's success seems like magic. Others attribute it to cool products, good marketing, and Steve Jobs's charisma or presentation skills. Critics credit the Apple co- founder's ability to project a "reality distortion field." In his … Continue reading Apple’s success seems like magic: The Business Innovation Funnel has 2nd side

Strategy as model and guiding business rules

The biggest challenge in strategy development is crystallizing the strategy and making it easily conceivable. This is achieved by applying a guiding rule or simple rule, which is a principle of concrete decision-making and unambiguous operation. Rules can be made for different things, organization units, and themes: practices for the management to help decide on … Continue reading Strategy as model and guiding business rules

If strategies or innovations are too well documented, they are poorly adopted

A company always has a working strategy that is applied in practice, even if it’s not documented or clearly defined. Business is conducted, and products delivered all the time. This is the unwritten strategy that is nevertheless firmly embedded in the minds of many self-employed CEO’s. In big companies, strategies are well documented but poorly … Continue reading If strategies or innovations are too well documented, they are poorly adopted

Strategic agility – Lack of genuine dialogue in business innovations?

In principle, big and small companies experience strategic challenges differently. Big companies struggle to make their sluggish and process-oriented organization more flexible, whereas smaller companies tend to be even too flexible and risk losing focus on their core competency. As a result, small companies easily waste their potential and miss the big picture, especially if … Continue reading Strategic agility – Lack of genuine dialogue in business innovations?

We have entered an era of strategic agility?

Strategy management has always been guided by different themes, which have defined how to build a strategic competitive advantage. These might have been the cost advantage in a given country, natural resources, and the number of resources, or process efficiency. Themes come and go as no single strategy can maintain the competitive advantage – or … Continue reading We have entered an era of strategic agility?