Will a business plan ensure the success of my small business? If I don’t need financing, why do I need a business plan? Isn’t it true that most of these plans reside in a desk drawer or file cabinet, ...

Last week, I wrote about the Value Proposition, one of the nine building blocks in Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas. The Business Model Canvas provides a simple, one-page draft of a ...

Challenging a central assumption of start-up culture, Swiss business theorist Alexander Osterwalder in Colombo argued ...

A lean business model is an approach to business development that focuses on creating value for the customer while minimizing waste within the organization. This model derives its core principles from ...

Business models define how companies earn revenue, including methods like subscriptions. Understanding a company's business model helps investors assess potential profitability. Different industries ...

Chances are, you will recognize this business model: a small-business owner signs a new client, hires more people to serve the client and, in the end, finds that the new revenue the client has ...