MindMap Gallery 55 Successful Business Models Reading Notes
"Business Model Innovation Design Encyclopedia: 55 Business Models Used by 90% of Successful Companies" is a book published by Renmin University of China Press in 2018. The author is [Switzerland] Oliver Gassmann [Switzerland] Caroline. A strong business model is always the cornerstone of corporate success. This book introduces 55 business models and you will be greatly benefited from reading it.
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55 successful business models
1. Additional business models
Charge extra for add-on products
When price competition for write-off products becomes fierce
what, why
Low price strategy for basic products
Additional products
Customers can choose or not choose or customize
time and manner
Can have basic products
Add nearby products with low price sensitivity
or low comparability in the market
Products with lower price than those on the market
If the space is fixed for a long time, the price of nearby products can be increased.
Terminal
Attractions with tickets
○Think about the problem
Price-sensitive basic products
Customers are bound to us
2. Alliance business model
Your success is my success
Support other companies in marketing their products
how, why
Timing and method
Strong ecosystem
Many customers
Thinking about the problem
Can you have customers for a long time?
How to find the best potential partners
Dealing with sales uncertainty
How to deal with customer returns if the partner fails to perform services?
3. Aikido pattern
Turn competitor advantages into disadvantages
Completely different products or services within the industry
Completely opposite position to competitors
what, why
Timing and method
courage enough
Think outside the box
Market testing is most important
Thinking about the problem
Are there any guided consumers?
Is he a representative of the target market?
Can you overcome all difficulties?
4. Auction business model
Once, twice, deal
○ Product price is ultimately determined by the customer
○ Rare or special products
what, why
time and manner
Flexibility and huge possibilities
Buyers and sellers create markets
All day long
Thinking about the problem
What is your unique selling proposition?
Grab customers from established players
■ How to maintain competitive advantage
■ Market coverage
■ Add participants quickly and efficiently
■ Establishment of credibility and secure transactions
5. barter model
● Tit for tat
○ Exchange of different types of products or services between individuals and groups
○ What and why
○ Timing and method
■ Complementary partners
● Suppliers
● Customers
● Competitors
■ Think outside the box
○Think about the problem
■ Is there a reciprocal relationship?
■ Or there is no competition
■ Complementary products or services
■ New partner brand spillover effect
■ Implementation within a reasonable framework
■ Similar corporate culture
6. ATM mode
● Leverage negative working capital to make profits
○ Increased revenue is greater than the funds paid to suppliers and purchased products
○ Ensure that the company and suppliers have loose payment methods
○ Ensure timely payment from customers
○ How and why
○ Timing and method
■ Suitable for make-to-order production
■ The product or service has high value
■ Integrate with subscription model
○Think about the problem
■ Able to pay promptly after receiving payment
■ What benefits does the order model bring to customers?
■ Is it possible to negotiate contracts with suppliers?
■ Whether the product or service can be completed after receiving payment
7. cross selling model
● Kill two birds with one stone
○ Add complementary products to the existing basis
○ Let channels generate more value and cross borders
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Simple, small profit margin, solving basic needs
■ Combined with products with large profit margins
■ Also available in the B2B field
○Think about the problem
■ Whether the bundled products are beneficial to consumers
■ Whether potential customers recognize additional products
■ Do consumers have natural needs?
■ Is the price consistent?
■ Is the threshold high enough?
8. crowdfunding model
● Let’s invest together
○ Fund raising outsourcing
○ How to make an announcement
○ Return product
○ How and why
○ Timing and method
■ Ideas are attractive
■ Multiplayer support
■ Able to provide funding consistent with what they say and what they do
○Think about the problem
■ Want to inspire people
■ Provide financial or in-kind rewards to investors
■ Comply with laws and regulations
■ Ability to protect one’s intellectual property rights
■ Crowdfunders can become new customers or fans
9. crowdsourcing model
● Outsourcing to the public
○ Purpose to expand the company’s sources of innovation and knowledge
○ How and why
○ Timing and method
■ Crowdsourcing with creative talents
○Think about the problem
■ Can it cultivate community?
■ Define questions that are specific enough
■ Are there clear and transparent standards?
■ Clearly define and communicate the process
■ Ability to manage social media dynamics
■ Is there a real market?
■ Attract relevant
■ Profit model
10. customer loyalty model
● Long-term incentive mechanism
○ Provide value beyond basic value
○ Incentives or discounts
○ Level membership system
○ What and why
○ Timing and method
■ Customer-centric
○Think about the problem
■ Which channels are suitable
■ Which way is best?
■ How to obtain requirements
■ Is the feedback valuable?
■ Customers become fans
■ Fan interaction
11. digital model
● Digitization of actual products
○ Product or service becomes digital variant
○ Many advantages
○ What, how
○ Timing and method
■ Combination of virtual and reality
■ Endless possibilities
■ Disrupt more industries in the next 5-10 years
○Think about the problem
■ Can products be converted to digitalization to generate value?
■ Can you create and capture value?
■ When is it useful?
12. Direct sales model
● Skip the middleman
○ Eliminate retail revenue margin and other costs
○ Better understand consumer needs
○ Promote product innovation
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Cut out the middlemen
■ Pay close attention to customers
■ Optimize collaboration among various departments
○Think about the problem
■ How large a team is needed?
■ Healthy competition within the team
■ Training team
■ How to increase intimacy
■ What functions need to be changed?
13. e-commerce model
● Online trading
○ Online sales
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Any B2C is ok
○Think about the problem
■ Can it create value for customers?
■ Reduce costs
■ Publish online
■ Whether it weakens competitive advantage
14. experiential sales model
● Products with emotional appeal
○ Basic products will increase in price due to additional experiences
○ Give a story or emotion
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Win the hearts of consumers
○Think about the problem
■ Brand concept experience
■Full support
■ Clearly define the product experience
■ Create positive emotions and turn them into purchasing power
15. fixed fee model
● Unlimited consumption within a fixed price
○ One-time purchase of services or products
○ Use low frequencies to offset high frequencies
○ Set upper limit
○ What and why
○ Timing and method
■ Controllable costs
■The law of diminishing marginal effects
■ Fixed fees are more cost-effective than individual charges
○Think about the problem
■ Within calculable profit
■ Increase market share and reduce profit costs
■ Avoid customer abuse
■ Price elasticity
■ Price difference losses as potential assets
16. Fractional property rights model
● Timeshare helps submission efficiency
○ Shared usage rights, shared ownership
○ Purchase part of the assets and obtain the right to use them
○ Implemented in an alliance manner
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Product prices are high
■ Low usage
■ Asset value can appreciate
○Think about the problem
■ Suitable sharing plan
■ How to divide ownership
■ Allocation of usage rights at contract and transaction level
■ Selling shares is simple and feasible
17. franchise model
● Everyone is for me, I am for everyone
○ Selling map mode
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Requires knowledge or brand strength
■ Low risk and rapid growth
○Think about the problem
■ Attractive enough
■ Growth potential
■ Standardized process
■ Legalization to avoid being imitated
■ The business model is not modeled
■ Advance and retreat together
18. From push to pull mode
● Consumers create a value vortex
○ Customer is God
○ From seller’s market to buyer’s market
○ What, how
○ Timing and method
■ Challenge the entire value chain
■ Potential in production and logistics
○Think about the problem
■ Is the production and logistics system flexible?
■ Is there currently excess inventory?
■ Focus on customers in every activity
■ Whether the supplier can produce just-in-time
■ Allows us to be more flexible
■ Which value chains should be prioritized for development?
19. Guaranteed availability mode
● Reliable access to products
○ Reduce losses caused by technical or equipment failures
○ Establish long-term cooperative relationships
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Availability is critical in the industry
■ B2B e-commerce
○Think about the problem
■ Is it affordable?
■ Fully stocked
■ Risk of price decline
■ Speeds up repairs and recovery
■ Punitive measures
■ Addressing financial and reputational impacts
20. hidden income model
● Find alternative sources
○ Main income comes from third parties
○ It is common practice to embed advertising into products
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Income is difficult to assess
■ Customers are highly alert
○Think about the problem
■ Separate customers from revenue streams
■ Other ways to commercialize assets
■ Will customers be lost?
21. ingredient branding model
● Brand within brand
○ One of the products is branded
○ Can only be used as an accessory product
○ Cannot be purchased separately
○ What, how
○ Timing and method
■ High brand awareness
■ High product quality
○Think about the problem
■ Ingredient branding must not influence the final product
■ Distinguish original manufacturer
22. integrator pattern
● Participate in the entire production chain
○ Reduce transaction costs
○ Create value efficiently
○ Unable to focus on specialization
○ Flagship ecological chain
○ How and why
○ Timing and method
■ One-stop solution
■ Risk of loss of depth and specialization
○Think about the problem
■ Can it create more profits?
■ Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
23. single business model
● Benefit from professional services
○ Focus on a certain link in the value chain
○ What, how
○ Timing and method
■ Maximize professional potential
■ Become a leader
■ Copy to other businesses
○Think about the problem
■ Enough knowledge to detect changing trends
■ Do economies of scale play a role?
24. Customer data leverage model
● Make full use of known information
○ Focus on big data
○ Need to be processed
○ How and why
○ Timing and method
■ Combined with hidden income models
■ Data provision risks
○Think about the problem
■ Data can create value
■ Other means to commercialize customer relationship resources
■ How to leverage customer data
25. License business model
● Commercialization of intellectual property
○ Commercialization of corporate intellectual property rights
○ What, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Knowledge or technology intensive
○Think about the problem
■ Not a core component of the enterprise that can be authorized
■ Patent that other companies cannot imitate
■ Can it increase product and brand awareness?
26. lock mode
● Ensure customer loyalty with high switching costs
○ You will suffer losses if you change suppliers
○ Avoid commonalities with competitors
○ Shared with razor blade mode
○ Features: Contract specifications
○ Features: One-time investment
○ High transfer costs
○ Timing and method
■ Lockdown mode; legal aspects
■ Short-sightedness
■ Technical level
■ Ongoing maintenance
■ Economic level
■ Create incentives
○Think about the problem
■ What methods are there to retain consumers?
■ Without damaging reputation and customers
■ Gentle and indirect locking
■ Consumers create additional value
27. long tail pattern
● Accumulate a small amount of income into a big sum
○ Supply small sales volume and rich varieties
○ Low profits and low sales volume
○ Both mass and niche products can bring profits
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Lack of write-off products and qualifications
■ Highly specialized and personalized products
○Think about the problem
■ Consumers gain value
■ Good at management
■ Handle large-scale products
■Background processing capabilities
28. value-added model
● Diversify technologies beyond core business
○ In addition to the core, others are provided to other companies
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Qualifications that are difficult to imitate
■ Helps improve core competitiveness
○Think about the problem
■ Understand the core competitiveness of the enterprise
■ Is it unique and difficult to copy?
■ Can it be applied to different industries?
■ Whether the inherent potential of core competitiveness has been repeatedly considered
■ Are the target market assumptions correct?
29. Mass customization model
● Mass production of personalized products
○ Modular production
○ Personalized customization
○ Large quantities
○ Buyers feel involved
○ Differentiate yourself from competitors
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Applicable to all industries
■ Must have the ability to handle complex data
○Think about the problem
■ How to adapt to personal taste or expectations
■ Maximize consumer interests
■ Efficient operation of backend system
30. Affordable service model
● At least it’s cheap
○ Aim to attract more target customers
○ Enter the mass market
○ Continuously adjust the process
○ Cost minimization
○ Product standardization
○ Optimize distribution methods
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ The target audience is highly cost-conscious
○Think about the problem
■ Can be provided free of charge according to customer needs
■ Fields should be treated carefully and differently
■ Which link in the value chain is used to reduce waste?
■ Create economies of scale in procurement, production, R&D and distribution
■ Completely redesign production processes to reduce costs
31. open innovation model
● Drive collaboration to create value
○ Let external collaborators participate in the value creation process of your own chalk
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ All members must have sufficient income
○Think about the problem
■ What added value can collaboration with others provide consumers?
■ Which parts can benefit most from external knowledge and partners?
■ What role do partners play? How to position yourself?
■ How to reasonably distribute income with partners
■ How to benefit from the entire ecological chain
32. Open source innovation model
● Work together to design free solutions
○ Products developed by the coffee shop public community
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
○Think about the problem
■ What are suitable for open source methods?
■ Can sharing results gain competitive advantage?
■ Develop according to strategic direction?
■ Create value or capture value?
33. conductor mode
● Value chain management and control
○ Focus on own competitiveness
○ Not core external to professional companies
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ What are the core strengths?
■ Go all out in the areas of expertise
■ Occupy an absolute advantage
■ Good at managing different collaborators
○Think about the problem
■ What are the key activities?
■What are the unique advantages?
■ Which businesses are not important and can be outsourced
■ Can the total cost be reduced?
■ Can it be more flexible?
■ Ability to manage multiple collaborators simultaneously?
34. Billed purchase model
● Pay-per-trip
○ Settlement of actual usage quantity
○ Various charging methods can be adopted
○ Specify basic service usage
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Applications of Internet of Things
○Think about the problem
■ Will customers change their behavior?
■ What kind of data can be measured and analyzed?
■ What additional value is provided to customers?
■ What customer behavior do you understand?
35. Pay-as-you-go model
● No matter what, you deserve it
○ Prices are determined by consumers
○ Sometimes provide minimum price or guide price
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Assume consumers are fully knowledgeable
■ Willing to consume rationally
○Think about the problem
■ Which products are suitable for reasonable valuation?
■ Can the revenue model be divided into a fixed part and a flexible part?
■ How to avoid free users
36. P2P mode
● Person-to-person model
○ Transactions between individuals
○ Rental, service, sharing experience, sharing information
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Increase the marginal utility of a product or service
■ Self-reinforcing cycle effect
○Think about the problem
■ How to persuade consumers to switch networks and what are the benefits?
■ What kind of incentive mechanism and lock-in method
■ Strictly implement the design blueprint
■ When to implement a freemium revenue model
37. performance contract model
● Pay by results
○ Measurement is based on exact usage
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ The products produced are complex and have certain application risks.
○Think about the problem
■ What are customers’ real needs?
■ Can it create added value for customers?
■ Increased cost structure transparency
■ How to design a value chain
38. Razor and blade mode
● Bait and hook
○ Basic products are low-priced or free
○ Supporting products are sold at high prices
○ Set up barriers to switching to other purchases
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Strengthen patent R&D capabilities and brand building capabilities
○Think about the problem
■ Design unique functions for after-sales business
■ Is it difficult for competitors to imitate?
39. leasing model
● Purchase short-term usage rights
○ No need to purchase, short-term use
○ Enterprises have the ability to bear product costs up front
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ If products and services are offered at a fixed price
■ Customers can use it without having to own it
○Think about the problem
■ To own or to use
■ Products generate cash flow on their own
■ Which products are suitable for leasing?
■ What value is created for customers?
40. revenue sharing model
● A win-win symbiotic relationship
○ Individuals, groups or companies cooperate to share income
○ Related to franchise plans established on the Internet
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Gradually becoming fragmented, open and independent value chains
■ B2B, B2C environment
○Think about the problem
■ Who is the right partner?
■ Can a collaborative concept create synergies?
■ How to design product packages to create synergies
■ Simple processes and mechanisms
■ Does co-branding create positive or negative spillover?
41. reverse engineering model
● Learn from competitors
○ Research existing technologies or products
○ Develop similar or compatible
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Automobile, pharmaceutical, software industry
■ 3D scanning and printing technology facilitates reverse engineering
○Think about the problem
■ What have you learned from successful practice?
■ How to legally exploit competitors' products?
■ In which areas can the most be learned?
■ How to understand product features and cost leadership strategies
■ Dealing with critics?
■ Ability to move freely within the scope of the law
■ Apply what you learn to yourself
42. Reverse innovation model
● Learn great solutions
○ Products were originally designed and developed for developing countries in China
○ Finally repackaged and sold in developed countries at low cost
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ R&D or innovation in low-cost areas
■ Cost pressure may need to be adjusted
○Think about the problem
■ Is R&D and innovation strong enough?
■ Can intellectual property be protected?
■ Avoid knowledge spillover effects
■ Can it be pushed back to the high-income market?
■ Differences in new markets and market segmentation issues
43. Robin Hood style
● Take from the rich and give to the poor
○ Most profits come from wealthy families
○ Low prices attract the poor and create economies of scale
○ Able to create a positive corporate image
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Core markets attract a large number of stable customers
■ Improved version offers low prices to low-income customers
■ 2 Purpose: Improve reputation and obtain considerable sales
○Think about the problem
■ Can you provide products or services to low-income people?
■ Can the market be segmented reliably and consistently?
■ Can it be subsidized? Or how to adjust the low-end version to reduce costs
44. Self-service model
● Let consumers do the work themselves
○ Consumers participate in the value creation process of products
○ Suitable for high cost but low perceived value to consumers
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Suitable for consumers who are willing to work hard to obtain low prices
■ DIY elements in the production process create perceived value for customers
■ Analyze potential from the customer’s perspective
○Think about the problem
■ How to price?
■ Provide the value customers expect?
■ View self-help as a positive experience?
■ Ensure that self-help behavior does not cause other troubles
45. Shop-in-shop model
● Piggybacking operation
○ The retailer opens a separate store within the store
○ Strong alliance
○ Increase main brand sales
○ Obtain rental income
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Suitable for relying on distributors and middlemen to sell products
○Think about the problem
■ Use channels to increase brand exposure?
■ How to improve consumer brand awareness?
■ Which channel can display everything about the company?
■ Which partners are we matched with?
46. solution provider pattern
● One-stop shop
○ Provide all products and services in a specific area
○ Able to build close relationships with customers
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Products or services can be expanded
■ After-sales service
○Think about the problem
■ After integration, consumers can perceive more added value
■ Can after-sales service business be planned in the early stage?
■ Can you handle increasing diversity of complexity?
■ Sacrificing professionalism? How to maintain the current market positioning?
47. Ordering model
● Purchase season tickets to enjoy services
○ Consumers enjoy products or services regularly
○ Enter into a contract to stipulate the frequency and period
○ Consumers must actually benefit from
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Consumers need to consume regularly
■ Add value to customers
■ Save time, trouble, continuity, and reduce risks
○Think about the problem
■ What do consumers need on a regular basis?
■ Which ones are suitable for ordering?
■ Can it provide added value?
48. Supermarket model
● The more, the cheaper
○ A wide range of products for sale at the same time
○ Products are cheap
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Economies of scale and scope
○Think about the problem
■ Sufficient market potential?
■ Background processes that run efficiently?
■ Standardization
49. Business models that target the poor
● Lock in underlying consumers
○ Great potential, demographic dividend
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Brings many opportunities for sustainable business development
■ Good public relations brings many benefits
○Think about the problem
■ What products can be provided to low-income people?
■ Can services that are temporarily unaffordable to consumers be appropriately reduced?
■ Reach a larger target audience via mobile devices?
50. Garbage monetization model
● Turn trash into cash
○ Recycle or reuse waste materials
○ Refurbishment and resale
○ Reduce resource costs
○ Create a good image
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Core concept of sustainable development
■ There is no value in a certain value chain, but it can be reused in other value chains.
○Think about the problem
■ How to create value from waste
■ It takes the image to a higher level
■ Mechanism can create value for partners
■ Which industries create valuable waste?
51. two-sided market model
● Stimulate indirect network effects
○ Through intermediaries or platforms
○ Promote good interaction between the two complementary groups
○ Seek common interests
○ Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Who are the relevant stakeholders?
■ How to connect
○Think about the problem
■ Who is involved in the use
■ How to contact
■ What value streams flow between participants?
■ What is positioning in the value network?
■ Why do some participants leave?
■ Can it create additional value for consumers?
52. Extreme luxury mode
● There is nothing you can’t think of and nothing you can’t do
○ Target the top rich
○ Highest quality, privileged
○ Unique features
○ Self-actualizing buyers
○ Vanity effect
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ What value can be created for people who have everything?
■ The target audience is small, how to deal with fluctuating demand
■ What kind of employees are needed?
53. User design patterns
● Users become unique creative entrepreneurs
○ Dual identities of consumer designers
○ Support and benefit from consumer design
○ Consumers do not need to invest
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Industries that are extremely attractive to design
■ Growing demand for interactivity among people
■ Strengthen brand effect
○Think about the problem
■ How to strengthen cooperation and communication with consumers
■ Improve the quality of solutions by integrating consumer creativity
■ Increase consumers’ DIY workload and enhance value perception
■ Which social media can help with engagement
54. White label mode
● Implement your own brand strategy
○ The product is unbranded. no label
○ OEM
○ Cannot let consumers understand that the products are actually the same
○ Who, what, how, why
○ Timing and method
■ Customers are highly price sensitive
■ A well-known brand has been created
■Introduce a small number of white label products first
○Think about the problem
■ How to deal with conflicts with your own brand?
■ How do customers perceive product value?
■ What are the inspirations and benefits of existing brand products?
55. freemium model
● Free basic version and paid advanced version
○ Build a huge customer base for free
○ Attract customers to jump to paid premium version
○ What and why
○ Timing and method
■ Internet-based businesses
■ Marginal cost is close to zero
○Think about the problem
■ What customers need
■ Improve user experience
■ Locking in customers?
■ What provides added value