The field of business models is about to become a core management discipline alongside accounting, finance, organization etc. Business model optimization and the commercialization of innovative ideas and new technologies will become a politically driven issue in the light of sustainability pressures. This book emphasizes how three major tendencies in business – networking, innovating and globalizing – are achieved through a business model perspective and how business models and profitability to greater extent become intertwined.
Network-based business models
What defines a network based business model?
Barriers and challenges
Value creation maps
What is the value creation process?
Why might the value creation process be difficult to discover?
What is a value creation map?
The building process: A two-step method
Refining the value creation map
Value creation maps and indicators
Pros and cons
Strategic innovation – the context of business models and business development
Introduction: a new competitive landscape
Strategic innovation: the background
Defining strategic innovation
Defining business concepts
Discussions
Business model innovation
Method
Analysis
Discussion: Single vs. Multi BM Innovation
Conclusion
Innovative business models on NewConnect
NewConnect and other alternative markets in Europe
Information documents as a way to present business models
Sustainability of innovative business models
Sustainability of business models used by companies on NewConnect – results of empirical research