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Strategyzer provides tools and training for designing, testing, and scaling business models, featuring the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas along with templates, case studies, and practical guides.
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hbr.org
Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.
Alex Osterwalder: Business Model Innovation
Short animated explainer from the University of St. Gallen, written by Oliver Gassmann, on how business model innovations arise and the common myths around them. Viewers see why recombining existing business model patterns, rather than inventing from scratch, drives most successful innovation.
Business Model Toolbox
Free templates and guides for business model innovation
Business Model Innovation
Three-week course from Tecnológico de Monterrey teaching a structured method for designing and redesigning business models through observation, visual mapping, white-space analysis and storytelling. Learners practise identifying unexploited activities and reshaping value propositions within an existing business model.
leanstartup.co
Lean Startup Co. is the official hub for the Lean Startup methodology, providing guidance on validated learning, rapid experiments, and customer development. The site offers articles, case studies, books, training programs, and events to help entrepreneurs and teams apply lean principles to build successful products and businesses.
Business Strategy
In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value. In doing so, you’ll develop an understanding of how and why this process is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation, and capture and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a variety of perspectives, including the industry-level (e.g., five forces analysis) and the firm-level (e.g., business models and strategic positioning). You will be able to: - Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems inside a company and align them with the external environment to enhance overall performance - Recognize strategic management tools and frameworks and apply them to real business contexts - Process diverse business and industry information to diagnose strategic issues, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a coherent and actionable strategic plan This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.