Reinventing Business Models! BMG II is out!

Business Model Generation is out again. Go get it. Not only is it fun to read, the book is packed with a disciplined, visual approach to helping clients work through their business model. Practitioners of Action Science will quickly grasp how to make use of the templates, the visual approaches, and the overall methodology. This book will make groups smarter, more agile, and able to achieve real results. My clients swear by the approach. All of the techniques we use to help our clients challenge their thinking and create models of their thought process fit well and play nicely with this great work.

If you are a bit skeptical go the the site, and download the pdf. Seasoned Action Research Facilitators will understand how to work directly from this free pdf. But this is only the first course. Please don’t leave after the appetizers! As Bacon said, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” This one fits the latter.

Here is the Core Team that completed the work.

But truth be told it is actually the work of 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners. It gives us a practical example of the Japanese proverb, “None of us is smarter than all of us.” Amazon sells it in two forms, paperback and hardback. I have both. The paperback is good to keep with you to carry about, take notes on, and thoroughly digest. I save the hardcover for client presentations. It lays out so nicely and allows for an intimate discussion with your business leader. Enjoy.

In a later post I will discuss some cases where we have used THE CANVAS!