Relating Capabilities to ‘Strategy’ and ‘Business Model’

In our ongoing blog series on Capabilities and Capability-based Planning, we’ve mainly concentrated on the capability concept itself. We’ve discussed why capabilities are useful as a concept, how to define them, and how to structure Capability Maps. We’ve also looked at how you can use Capability Maps to support business challenges such as investment decision-making,…

7 Ways to Present Your Business Model

One of the main challenges of business model innovation and business model implementation is communication. We need to get the message to the right people, and communicate it in a way they understand, like, and can move forward with. In this blog post, we will describe different ways of communicating business models. 1. Business Model…

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On McKinsey’s Two Speed IT Architecture and Digital Business Models

 In a “A two-speed IT architecture for the digital enterprise”, McKinsey’s (McK) Oliver Bossert, Chris Ip, and Jürgen Laartz stated that “delivering an enriched customer experience requires a new digital architecture running alongsi…

A Safe-Fail Business Model

This is the 2nd episode of the ACME Entertainment & Leisure story. The CIO, Mr Black has just been appointed, and set challenges by the Executive Board; ranging from cost reduction & innovation to improved regulatory compliance – and all this i…

Strategic Use of Business Models: Strategic Management

The term “strategy” is perhaps one of the most misused, and misunderstood concepts in business literature. In this series of blog posts, we refer to strategy as positioning the firm with respect to its environment. We endeavor to answer the questions: how can we (a) improve the process of strategic management through the use of models, and (b) improve the execution/implementation of strategies with Enterprise Architecture Management?

The Business Model represented as an Enterprise Architecture view

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A Business Model expressed as a Value Chain would show the sequence of high level processes that add to the margin and accumulate cost at each stage of the chain. 
 
Two different Business Models for the same type …

The Business Model expressed as a Value Chain

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While a Business Model (BM) identifies the way a company (activities, resources, channels, partnerships… as described in the BM canvas) returns value/profit while delivering the product, the Value Chain identifies the company s…