Business Model Innovation
Frans Johansson at BIF-4
Medici Effect author talks about innovation at the convergence of risk, passion and luck.
Robin Chase: Configuring Transportation 2.0
Chase is the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a service that helps people quickly arrange to share rides between friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Prior to GoLoco, Chase co-founded and was CEO of Zipcar, the world's largest car-sharing company.
Jason Fried: Merchant of Simplicity
37signals founder expounds on the unexpected sources of inspiration for his company.
Saul Kaplan
Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. He also is the chair of the non-profit’s Board of Directors. Kaplan started BIF in 2005 with a mission to enable collaborative innovation. The non-profit is creating a real world laboratory for innovators to explore and test new business models and system level solutions in areas of high social importance including health care, education, energy independence, public safety, and quality of life.
James Gardner
James Gardner is Chief Strategy Officer at crowd innovation company Spigit, having twice been a Spigit customer when he was CTO at the UK’s largest public sector organization, and prior to that, when he was Head of Innovation and Investment at the UK’s largest bank.
Alexander Osterwalder
Alexander Osterwalder is a sought-after author, speaker, workshop facilitator and adviser on the topic of business model design and innovation. He has established himself as a global thought leader in this area, based on a systematic and practical methodology to achieve business model innovation. Executives and entrepreneurs all over the world apply Dr. Osterwalderʼs approach to strengthen their business model and achieve a competitive advantage through business model innovation. Organizations that use his approach include 3M, Ericsson, IBM, Telenor, Capgemini, Deloitte, Logica, Public Works and Government Services Canada, and many more.
John Hagel: Working on the Edges
John Hagel, co-chairman of Deloitte LLP’s Center for the Edge, carefully observes the unexpected on the “edges” of business, where things bump up against each other to produce change. In this video story, the Power of Pull co-author shares a personal story about passion and how, for companies big and small, it can create sustained extreme performance improvement.
Whitney Johnson: A Strong Sequel for the Real Life Working Girl
Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors asks us to do one thing: Disrupt ourselves. After a period of “reassessing and recalibrating,” Johnson began applying her financial expertise in a creative capacity. Teaching us never to be afraid to take risks, Johnson truly embraces all things innovative. She doesn't paint a magical picture of disruption, she remarks it's hard, lonely and sometimes you feel a little crazy!
Alexander Osterwalder: The Business Model Generation
All the way from Switzerland, Alex Osterwalder shows us business model innovation is about new ways of creating, delivering and capturing value. Not your average business book, Business Model Generation is a handbook for staying relevant. Everything about this book, including the way it was published, screams innovation.
Whitney Johnson
Whitney Johnson dared to disrupt herself when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary, eventually rising to become an Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side equity analyst. She is currently a regular contributor at Harvard Business Review, the President of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund, and is the author of the forthcoming, DARE-DREAM-DO: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (Bibliomotion, May 2012). When Whitney's not picking stocks, she invests in people, concepts and dreams at daretodream.typepad.com. She is married to Roger Johnson, and they are the parents of two children.