Business Model You A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career

Edited by Timothy Clark · Alexander Osterwalder · Yves Pigneur
John Wiley & Sons February 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781118156315
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication
February 2012
Format
Paperback , 264 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

A one-page tool to reinvent yourself and your career

The global bestseller Business Model Generation introduced a unique visual way to summarize and creatively brainstorm any business or product idea on a single sheet of paper. Business Model You uses the same powerful one-page tool to teach readers how to draw "personal business models," which reveal new ways their skills can be adapted to the changing needs of the marketplace to reveal new, more satisfying, career and life possibilities. Produced by the same team that created Business Model Generation, this book is based on the Business Model Canvas methodology, which has quickly emerged as the world's leading business model description and innovation technique.

This book shows readers how to:

  • Understand business model thinking and diagram their current personal business model
  • Understand the value of their skills in the marketplace and define their purpose
  • Articulate a vision for change
  • Create a new personal business model harmonized with that vision, and most important, test and implement the new model

When you implement the one-page tool from Business Model You, you create a game-changing business model for your life and career.

Table of Contents

1 Canvas
Learn to use the key tool for describing and analyzing organizational and personal business models.

Chapter 1 Business Model Thinking: Adapting to a Changing World 19

Chapter 2 The Business Model Canvas 25

Chapter 3 The Personal Business Model Canvas 53

2 Reflect
Revisit your life direction and consider how you want to align your personal and career aspirations.

Chapter 4 Who Are You? 81

Chapter 5 Identify Your Career Purpose 133

3 Revise
Adjust — or reinvent — your work life using the Canvas and discoveries from previous sections.

Chapter 6 Get Ready to Reinvent Yourself 161

Chapter 7 Re-Draw Your Personal Business Model 175

4 Act
Learn to make it all happen.

Chapter 8 Calculate Your Business Value 209

Chapter 9 Test Your Model in the Market 223

Chapter 10 What's Next? 243

5 Extras
Read more about the people and resources behind Business Model You.

The Business Model You Community 252

Creator Bios 254

Notes 256

About the Author

Tim Clark (Portland, OR; www.businessmodelyou.com)leads the personal business model movement at BusinessModelYou.com. A gifted teacher/trainer and a former entrepreneur who draws on personal experience with multimillion dollar acquisitions and flops alike, Clark has authored or edited five books on entrepreneurship, business models, and personal development, including the international bestseller Business Model Generation. He holds master’s and doctorate degrees in business, and is currently serving as a visiting professor at the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo.

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Alexander Osterwalder, PhD (Lausanne, Switzerland; alexosterwalder.com; businessmodelgeneration.com)is an international speaker, workshop facilitator and strategy consultant. He writes a popular blog on business model innovation at www.businessmodelalchemist.com.

Yves Pigneur, PhD, (Lausanne, Switzerland) is a professor of business at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has held visiting professorships at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of British Columbia in Vancouver.  Dr. Pigneur is the chairperson of several conferences (IFIP, ISDSS, AIM). His research has been published in over fifty books, refereed journals and conference proceedings.

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