DeepSeek's challenge to OpenAI
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How DeepSeek Disrupted AI: A Case Study in Market Impact of (Business Model) Innovation

Patrick Stähler

In January 2025, the artificial intelligence landscape experienced a seismic shift with the introduction of DeepSeek’s R1 model, a revolutionary AI chatbot that exemplified cost-effective AI innovation. This Chinese AI startup unveiled a generative AI chatbot that matched the capabilities of leading models from U.S. tech giants but claimed it was developed at a fraction of the cost and time….

The offer is only one building block to fulfill the value proposition
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The offer is only one building block to fulfill the value proposition

Patrick Stähler

One of the beauties of the business model thinking is that we learn to see a business totally different if we really apply stringent thinking and dissect a business into its building blocks. And one of the most important concepts is that the value proposition is not the product. Why? It’s not the product that creates value but the value…

The pull in business models: 3 types of Attractors to look for
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The pull in business models: 3 types of Attractors to look for

James Streeton-Cook

So you need to know what your customer will love? What excites them? What moves them? This of course allows you to begin the process of designing a business model that delivers to both the customer and the business. Traditional business motivations are usually a push approach. But is this the future? Guest post by James Streeton-Cook Right now, let’s make…

Rethinking your industry logic: Cross Industry Business Model Innovation
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Rethinking your industry logic: Cross Industry Business Model Innovation

Norbert Haehnel

’Our industry is unique and should not be compared with other industries!’ This is a common phrase I have heard countless times throughout my consulting career. But is it true? Strangely enough the most successful companies become prosperous not by excluding comparisons, but by leveraging other industries success factors and applying them in a new context. Many other companies that innovated…

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It’s not the price, stupid. It is the value (proposition)

Patrick Stähler

Concentrate less on the product and more on the value you create for your customers. The customers care for the value proposition and how you fulfill it. And of course, the product is important but all other building blocks help to fulfill the value proposition as well.

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Banking 2.0: Call for help

Patrick Stähler

Ideas for unsolved or badly solved jobs in today’s banking Dear readers, this time I would like to tap to your collective and swarm intelligence. It’s a bit like open innovation but in a quick and dirty version. The challenge: boring and uninspiring banking The challenge is simple. Retail and e-Banking in the current form is quite 1.0. Most eBanking…