Making Digital Work – from Ideas to Revenue
Photo by Sandie Clarke on Unsplash There seems to be a canvas for everything these days. Alexander Osterwalder from Strategyzer can take credit for much of this with the creation of the Business Model model canvas and distribution under creative commons license. Some of the other canvases you may have used or heard of are the lean canvas, context canvas, value proposition canvas, ecosystem …
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From the age of 12 to 14 I was obsessed with the game of chess. I read books on it, made my own chess set at school and competed in the school chess club. My love affair with the game reached its peak at the annual chess competition one year where I made it to …
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Ash Maurya, the creator of the lean canvas, famously coined the phrase ‘the business model is the product’. Maurya’s point was that most of us are more passionate about our solution than any other part of the business model. This tendency left unchecked over time can become a major problem, regardless of how innovative or successful …
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Whether we like it or not, we are all connected. COVID-19 has demonstrated with ruthless efficiency the fact that what happens in one corner of the globe can impose a rapid and significant effect on people and organisations across the world. The way we conduct business with one another is no different. Enabled by technology …
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Product management has significantly transformed over the last decade and as we progress through the 2020’s will continue to transform at a rapid pace. The evolution of product management is heavily pegged to changes in customer needs, the way these needs are fulfilled and the underlying technology that enables solutions. If you look at the …
Learning will be the competitive advantage of 2020s The nature of competition today is very different from what it used to be. It’s far less obvious, which makes the ability to gather competitive intelligence more important than ever. It is from this observation that I intended on writing an article about competitive strategy in the …
It takes humility to realize we don’t know everything, not to rest on our laurels, and to know that we must keep learning and observing, if we don’t, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.”Cher Wang, Cofounder HTC Experimentation and lean delivery are the hallmark of start-ups and organisations …
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This article is about trust. To be more specific, I am writing about how an experience centric organisation may go about gaining trust, in particular by the use of the customer experience journey map. Why am I writing about trust and why the customer experience journey map? You don’t have to go very far in the …
Some ingredients to digital transformation success. The term ‘digital transformation’ is likely to win you a trophy at your next game of buzzword bingo. You are also in for a good chance if you set your sites on the cousins of digital transformation such as AI, APIs, Robotics, Data, IoT, Cloud, Cyber security and Chat …
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So, you’ve been tasked with creating a digital strategy. Where to start? Do you immediately jump to defining the ways in which you will acquire new customers? The social media you will use? The app you will build? The data you will leverage? There are many paths to defining a digital strategy and some are …
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