The Business Model Innovation Process Preparation, Organization and Management Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology Series

Business Model Innovation Process: Preparation, Organization and Management examines a range of critical questions that merit thoughtful interdisciplinary consideration, such as: Why do business models, and their innovation in particular, matter today? How can the process of business model innovation be understood, organized and managed adequately under increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous technological, business and geo-political conditions? What should decision-making and risk-management look like under these conditions, with managers whose rationality is bounded?

The book offers a detailed account of the relatively unknown process of business model innovation by looking into the intersection of strategic, operations and innovation management, organizational design, decision-making and performance management. In doing so, this book addresses fundamental issues, and introduces new ideas and theoretical perspectives. In envisioning and thinking about various potential scenarios of business model innovation and understanding how to organize for each of these under different conditions, the book provides original arguments and suggestions for practitioners. For that purpose, the book also offers many compelling real-life examples of business models and their innovation.

Combining theory and practice, this book is an essential read for researchers and academics of business model innovation, as well as strategic management, digital transformation, innovation management and organizational change. It will also be of direct interest to practitioners and business leaders seeking new perspectives to increase their competitive advantage.

1. CHAPTER ONE – The Basics: Business Modelling

2. CHAPTER TWO – Business Model Innovation

3. CHAPTER THREE – A Business Model Innovation Typology and Taxonomy

4. CHAPTER FOUR – Preparing, Organizing and Managing the Process of Business Model Innovation

5. CHAPTER FIVE - Business Model Performance

6. CHAPTER SIX - Future Trajectories in Business Model Studies

Yariv Taran, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Innovation and Organization at the Aalborg University Business School, Denmark. He received a BSc in Management and Sociology from the Open University of Israel, and an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Aalborg University, from where he also received his PhD in Business Model Innovation. His research focuses on the management of risk and uncertainty in business model innovation processes. Other areas of research interests include decision-making, knowledge management, entrepreneurship and regional systems of innovation. He has published his research in a number of international journals including Decision Sciences, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Journal of Green Engineering, Journal of Business Models, and European Journal of Innovation Management.

Harry Boer is a Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University, Denmark, and an honorary professor of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He holds a BSc in applied mathematics and an MSc and PhD both in management engineering, all from Twente University, the Netherlands. He has published on subjects such as organization theory, flexible automation, manufacturing strategy, and continuous improvement/innovation in the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Journal of Production Innovation Management, Decision Sciences, the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, Production Planning & Control, and the international Journal of Technology Management. His research interest is in continuous innovation, the effective interaction between day-to-day operations, incremental change, and radical innovation. He is a managing editor of Creativity and Innovation Management.