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Seven Incisive Questions to Create a Highly Profitable business model
Many people have trouble deciding where to start when considering possibilities to establish a better business model. With these questions, you’ll make better changes . . . and faster.
1. Do you feel inspired by your organization’s current business model?
If your situation is like that of most people, the answer will be “no.” That’s just the beginning of your learning. You should go on to ask yourself, what’s missing to make me feel inspired by our business model? Go on to ask at least five other people, and exchange ideas about what is missing. As you think about potential business models, focus on those areas.
2. Does your company’s business model provide greater benefits for all stakeholders than the alternative of not doing business with your company?
In asking this question, consider each end user, customer, distributor, partner, supplier, employee, shareholder, lender, regulator, and the communities you serve. If not, what’s missing? These answers should help you see where your business model could be improved to create a more supportive relationship with stakeholders where their self-interest is furthered by your success.
3. What would have to change for the economic and nonmonetary benefits your organization provides to double for each stakeholder?
Most people focus heavily on customers. But the most successful business model will distribute the rewards it generates in supporting customers extremely well to all those who contribute to enabling the company to operate excellently and to prosper.
Answering this question should flesh out whether your challenges are to push innovation in new directions, or simply to redirect the way the fruit of that innovation is shared. Most organizations will have issues in both dimensions.
4. How long would it take an existing competitor or new entrant to overcome your business model’s advantages for stakeholders?
If the answer is less than ten years, you definitely have some work to do.
5. What are the biggest risks your company takes now that could set back your progress?
Although it is exciting to “bet the company,” the most successful business model builders avoid doing so unless they see no choice. It only take one loss when the stakes are high for disaster to follow.
6. How can you change those big risks for ones you can handle better?
For example, if each new investment is too big for setbacks to be easily swallowed, can you share the risks and rewards with others? Of, if you lack resources, can you team with organizations that complement your own?
7. If all of your business model improvement tests were successful, how close would they come to providing an outstanding business model?
If your operation is like many organizations, there will still be significant gaps. How can you fill those gaps? Tests aren’t the only way to establish new business models. Sometimes new business relationships are needed because it is too slow and expensive to add the resources internally.
Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved
About the Author
Donald Mitchell is chairman of Mitchell and Company, a strategy and financial consulting firm in Weston, MA. He is coauthor of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The 2,000 Percent Solution, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. You can find free tips for accomplishing 20 times more by registering at:
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im doin a project on business models nd the online music industry nd im stuck.what exactly are business modelS?
what are business models? how do they play an important role in our lives? what are they there for..
Business Models Usually mean a business plan or design. You can do it in words and you should have a diagram (like a brainstorm tree) that outlines the overall business model (plan) as well.
Check out the book “This Business of Music” it should have a good plan outline you can refer to. If you google it you can buy it on Amazon, in Border, Barnes & Noble, etc…… They have some excellent examples of what you’re looking for.
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