Category: Business Model

Business Model

The future of TV

With the convergence of Internet, high-speed broadband and smart devices (smart phones and tablets), everyone agrees that the TV as we know it will no longer be the same. Apart from the hardware itself morphing into different shapes and sizes, getting more and more intelligent and connected, the content and the way it is consumed will also see a dramatic shift. Everyone has their own predictions and are investing in the future accordingly. Erica Emmich, CNBC Associate Producer , did speak to a lot of experts and asked them on what are their predictions for the future of  TV. Ashton Kutcher (Actor, […]

Business Model, Ideas

Unfortunately, my prediction about Facebook comes true…

In January this year, in my blog post titled “Why is Facebook planning to go public now?”, I had predicted that all is not well with facebook and that is the reason for the timing of the IPO. I was way off mark in the speed that I thought things would pan out, only goes on to point out that the pace of change around us is astounding to say the least. Already, there are predictions being made that Facebook could die. I think it is a bit pre-mature to predict their death. They still have the people who could […]

Business Model

People – to – People banking services by CivilisedMoney

The Crowdsourcing business model has been around for sometime now and has proven to be a good business model for independent artists to fund their projects. Now, CivilisedMoney is trying to use the same concept to help peer-to-peer financial services in the UK. CivilisedMoney’s was founded by Neil Crofts and Jason Scottgoal. Civilisedmoney will use people-to-people networks to create an ethical, transparent alternative to the existing financial services industry. As they say – “It’s banking with people, not banks.” The concept is very similar to the age old concept of a co-operative bank or a chit fund operated in India. The […]

Business Model, Innovation

What can Business Model Innovation projects learn from Film making

I came across an interesting approach to business model innovation being promoted by the folks @ Board of Innovation. They use the analogy of making a film to a business model innovation project. I really like this analogy.    The advantage of considering your business model innovation project as producing a film helps the project in the following ways: Makes the entire process more fun and exciting. Provides us a process to follow when the team falters. As with producing a film, you need a team of people with a diverse sets of skills to come together and work to […]

Business Model

Business opportunity for Gillette

Today, I went to a barber shop to get a haircut and a shave. I must say that I was not surprised to see that the barber shop was still continuing to use the regular old shaving blades and had not upgraded to multiple blade products introduced a decade before by Gillette and other such companies. When I asked the barber why he did not upgrade to twin blade or other such razors, he cited the cost of such blades as the reason.  I think that inertia is also one of the reasons. This is how everyone does it and so […]