Beginning of the week, I had a long discussion with Dr. oec. Susan Müller and Prof. Dr. Thierry Volery, two researchers at the University of St. Gallen. They want to figure out how high the excess return is earned by business model innovators. They want to know which kind of business innovation like value innovation or architectural innovation leads to what kind of über return or excess return.
Very interesting question in particular since most researchers including myself are still using case studies to make our point.
What made the discussion even more interesting was that we discussed what a business model is. There are several technical definitions like mine but for us more interesting was why the term became so prominent in the last years. With the term business model the word business returned to prominence in the conversation on strategy. Continue reading What is the purpose of your business?