How To Create A Disruptive Business Model : Innovation :: American Express OPEN Forum

The word "disruptive" is bandied about when referring to surprising new entrants into an industry, new players with new technology, and sudden competition coming from unlikely sources. But once you have the as-is Business Model Canvas completed, there are two things you can do to mitigate the element of surprise when it comes to your business model being disrupted, in addition to keeping a constant vigil on the external social, economic and market forces out of your control that can potentially disrupt your business.

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How To Design A Blog To Monetise without A Business Model - Foolhardy or Not - Darren Rowse

Earlier this week I launched a new blog: FeelGooder. This post will give some of the backstory behind it (expect another one next week with more). feelgooder.png What? Another blog? Are you crazy? One of the most common reactions I get when I mention that I’m starting a new blog is something along the lines of, “How are you going to fit that in?” Two months ago I wrote about the process I’d gone through to hire Georgina Laidlaw to work on content development and strategy for me. One of the reasons I expanded my team in this way was to create for myself some head space to dream and develop new projects. You’ve already seen some of these rolled out (the Free Getting Started Blogging course (with over 5000 participants already) and the soon-to-be-released ProBlogger Academy).

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The simple truth is that it is quite possible to create a thriving business without a big idea.

"The simple truth is that it is quite possible to create a thriving business without a big idea" is a lively presentation from Change This. The author.  Trevor Ginn is an entrepreneur and blogger who lives in Bethnal Green, London, UK. His online nursery business, Hello Baby, is unashamedly unoriginal, though, at least in his opinion, well executed. He is also a consultant at Vendlab and you can follow his exploits at trevorginn.com and on twitter @trevorginn.

Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing - Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mix crowdsourcing, the Internet and a huge pool of underemployed graphic designers, and the outcome is a company that's grabbed a great deal of attention. In the two and a half years since it launched, Web startup 99designs out of Melbourne, Australia, boasts that it's helped to broker 48,000 graphic design projects for big name clients like Adidas and DISH Network as well as for thousands of small businesses. Acting as a middleman between business owners and graphic designers, the 99designs site hosts contests in which clients post their needs--website design, logos, print packages--and designers compete to fill them. Instead of bidding for the job, designers submit finished work tailored to the client specifications in the contest listing. 99designs calls it a win-win scenario: Its clients gain access to the site's pool of 73,000 active designers, while the designers are given a chance to compete for "upwards of $600,000 in awards paid out monthly."

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An Experiment in Collaborative Business Model Innovation

I came across Business Model Generation courtesy of those I am following on Twitter and it looks to offer some new thinking around business model innovation. Here is their preamble. Synopsis Disruptive new business models are emblematic of our generation. Yet they remain poorly understood, even as they transform competitive landscapes across industries. Business Model Generation offers you powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models. Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model — or craft a new one.

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