Business Models

Our collaborative exploration of personalized medicine puts individuals and families at the center of the design process and bridges the exciting space between enabling agency at the consumer level and leveraging emerging technologies to transform customer experience and outcomes.

Check out this webinar featuring BIF's Chief Market Maker Eli MacLaren and Student Experience Lab Manager Jessica Brown as they unpack the business model imperative for education, BIF's design methodology, and a real-world case study.

While healthcare leaders understand the imperative of business model innovation, it is often scary to disrupt a large system that has been in place for years. When the motto of healthcare is “do no harm,” it is hard to be the guinea pig to test out new business models and next practices. Our goal was to help them make the business model innovation process safer and easier to manage.

As members, Epiq will have access to the BIF network of institutional business model innovators and unique approach to developing next practices and new business models, utilizing BIF’s Design Methodology and over 14 years of experience in the innovation space.

BIF to facilitate a Business Model Bootcamp for over 200 healthcare leaders as part of a three-day in-person meeting focused on innovation that enables the transformation of the healthcare space to focus more on patients and their families.

As BIF Members, AFIT will access our network of institutional business model innovators in education, health care, and public services to take advantage of opportunities to connect to a steady flow of business model design ideas, practices, and tools.

We're pleased to announce our newest BIF Member, the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, that will enable the exploration, design, and testing of new models for their organization in an effort to effectively maximize their capabilities to support their mission.

President of Western Governors University, Scott Puslipher is a true transformation agent who doesn't accept what is and who imagine what could be.

Sometimes leaders are ready to jump into the exploration of transformational next practices and new business models, but more often than not, they need to see the path and understand the investment. At BIF, we created Membership as an easy way to help leaders do this.

What does collaborative innovation actually look like in practice? Part two takes a deeper dive into the right conditions needed in order to not only succeed, but that is needed in order to successfully come together to scale transformative change.

In partnership with the Alliance for Innovation and Transformation (AFIT), the Student Experience Lab is designing and testing new models and next practices for community colleges. These models will address current challenges facing community colleges in order to transform student outcomes and create sustainable higher ed institutions.

Know around the world for her work in strategic design thinking and organic growth, Liedtka has been a leading thinker and pioneer in the field of corporate strategy for the past 30 years and was at the forefront of utilizing the strategies and principals we use today.

One of the most difficult experiences for those in education is to understand challenges within our system but have no method for creating meaningful, transformative change.

We live in a time that screams for transformation yet too many institutions are only capable of tweaks. We developed BIF’s Design Methodology because a growing number of institutional leaders know they need a better approach to innovation.

Famous last words; This time it’s different. No really, this time it is. We have arrived at that Malcolm Gladwell tipping point. Well at least I have, and I don’t think I’m alone. Let me make it personal. We each find our own reasons to reach for another gear, to reinvent ourselves, and to do work that matters. My burning platform is comprised of three things that are changing simultaneously: 1) The Market 2) BIF 3) Me. It’s not about me or my three things, it’s about being informed by and engaged in what’s changing around you, being self-aware and intentional about what’s next, getting better faster, and being clear about what’s important and what you value. Whatever your reasons, please hurry up and figure it out, because we need everyone to play, transformation is a team sport and a generative act. It’s go time!

It is not best practices, but next practices that will sustain your organization on a strong growth trajectory. While you continue to pedal the bicycle of today’s business model make sure that no less than 10% of your time and resources is dedicated to exploring new business models and developing next practices.

Higher education has a business model problem. The business model for U.S. colleges and universities — how they create, deliver, and capture value — hasn’t changed since Harvard, our country’s first college, was founded in 1636. Our higher education system is a national treasure that creates enormous societal value, but its 380-year-old business model fails to deliver affordable access and post-secondary credentials to an increasing percentage of our population.

It’s the innovator’s day. CEOs everywhere know that keeping their companies relevant in a rapidly changing world is imperative and that innovation is the solution. Corporate leaders also know their legacies depend on their organization’s ability to reinvent itself. It’s not going well.

BIF teamed with Southern New Hampshire University to design and test the lowest cost, highest quality degree program.

BIF-4 opening remarks from Saul Kaplan, founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory.