Since we’ve launched the first version of the Business Model Blocks about a year and half ago, we have been surprised by the enthusiasm and the number of people that started to use the blocks to visualize their business models. With all the feedback that we received from users, it was about time for an upgrade! Over the last two months we’ve reworked the initial 10 blocks to a brand-new set of 16 building blocks (thanks Tijl Piryns for the design!). You can have a look at ‘the making of‘. On the level of stakeholders we added four blocks: My Organization, Supplier, Government, and Non-profit. On the level of exchangeable objects we added: Data, Rights, and Credits. Attention and Exposure where merged into one building block. Check out the new Business Model Blocks template and let us know what you think:
Through a series of prototypes and workshops, we’ve found that the extended set better suits the subtleties of business models across different sectors. The new BM Blocks were used for the first time at our Business Model Tastings in Hasselt and Ghent (someactionphotos). What else? Brainstorm kits with magnetic blocks, business modeling with the blocks on the iPad,… stay tuned! What do you think? Send us your feedback via the contact form or directly to @philderidder/@nickdemey on twitter (tag: #bmblocks).
It was only a matter of time before somebody started a concept like Flip4new. The German e-commerce site focuses on electronics and digital products. That’s not new of course. But there payment method is. Instead of paying with cash, credit cards and so on, customers can pay with other goods. If you need a new [...]
Many free business models are based upon advertising while others are based on direct exchange of services. You do something for me and in return I’ll do something for you. Everybody happy! This new approach by Disney combines both methods. In order to get free publicity they are encouraging people to do volunteer work with [...]
The new start-up Irehab.com tries to take a different approach to health care. Patients can get free advice on how to treat specific complaints. By answering a few questions and looking at several 3D animations, these users should be able to diagnose themselves. To treat for instance ‘back pain’ they can follow step-by-step instruction videos [...]
TruGenetics understands that the value of genetic profile analysis lies in the combined data of a large group of people. Therefore they decided not to charge their users for individual genome reports in contrast to several competitors. During the first phase of their business, the company will offer this service for free to at least [...]
As previously described on In-Game Selling, companies are moving from advertisement based revenue models to in-app commerce or in-product selling. Timebridge.com is an excellent example of the same principle. Timebridge offers a scheduling service enabling people to collaboratively determine when to meet, also on mobile. Their actual revenue model is the resale of online and [...]
Following our previous post on wantz.it and tweetag, two other social applications that presented during Pitch Arena were Taatu and Virtua Gym. For these two ventures we also briefly described their business model. We didn’t go in depth, but mapping out the four social applications gaves us the possibility to quickly compare them with each [...]
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