Business Model Generation
You’re holding a handbook for visionaries, game changers,
and chal engers striving to defy outmoded business models emblematic of our generation.
and design tomorrow’s enterprises. It’s a book for the . . .
change the way you think about business models
Yet they remain poorly understood,
understand, design, and implement a new business
model — or analyze and renovate an old one.
landscapes across industries.
co-created by 470 strategy practitioners
Business Model Generation of ers
Coauthored by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from forty-five countries, the book was financed and you powerful, simple, tested tools for
produced independently of the traditional publishing industry. It features a tightly integrated, visual, lie-flat understanding, designing, reworking,
design that enables immediate hands-on use.
designed for doers
and implementing business models.
written by
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
models of value creation: executives, consultants,
entrepreneurs — and leaders of all organizations.
co-created by
An amazing crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries $34. 95 USA/$41.
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This book is printed on acid-free paper. o Copyright © 2010 by Alexander Osterwalder. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , Hoboken, New Jersey.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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