April 2010

Business World

Why Do You Need A Model?

By Nabankur Gupta

'Seizing The White Space' lays out a credible framework to make business models work and presents a practical approach to implement business model innovation.

Strategy guru Mark W. Johnson’s new book Seizing The White Space not only lays out a credible framework to make business models work, but presents a practical approach to implement business model innovation.

The Customer Knowledge Advantage

Recommended Read

By David G. Bakken

I’ve just finished Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson (Harvard Business Press). Johnson is chairman of Innosight, a consulting and investment company he co-founded with Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma.

Todd Sattersten Blog

Not much gets written about business models. I don't know if it isn't sexy enough or it somehow gets bucketed into the sleepfest of most strategy books. The only book I can think of, in recent years, to broach the subject was the self-published Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.

The Financial Daily

Companies fail when faced with disruptive technology because they don't know how to change their business model says Innosight Chairman --- Mark Johnson.

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mark Johnson on the power of new Internet-driven business models.

In Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal published by Harvard Business Press (2010), Mark Johnson discusses several new Internet-driven business models that have “brought many old-guard industries to their knees.”

Read on First Friday Book Synopsis here

HBR The Conversation

Strategy by Any Other Name

Walter Kiechel

A friend who books speakers for business events tells me strategy experts aren't much in demand these days; indeed, they haven't been for years. (Except in Japan.) Until recently audiences still sought out thinker/talkers on innovation or leadership. Of late, though, the rabble has ears only for economists or the occasional journalist who can shed light on the Global Financial Crisis (and perhaps wave a pitchfork in Wall Street's direction).

Innovation Leadership Network

How to Experiment to Support Innovation

By Tim Kastelle

Globe and Mail

Seizing the White Space is named Bestselling Business Book

1. IDEO Method Cards: 51 Ways to Inspire Design, IDEO

2. Colour Savvy: Helping You Achieve Success In Your Work Life, Susan Geary & Anne Bulstrode

3. Facilitation At A Glance, Ingrid Bens

4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis

5. Dancing Naked In the Mind Field, Kary Mullis

6. Successful Manager's Handbook, Personnel Decisions International

NEWSoDROME

 Review of Mark W. Johnson's Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal

If ever there was a need for a book like Mark's, now may be it. Our economy lags from the lack of...growth and renewal in businesses, large and small, and in almost* every industry. And the knowledge, tools and profiles he shares in his book take a great big step in delivering actionable steps any business, any size can take to...create seize that white space, create new business models that allow for growth and renewal.

Blog Talk Radio

Mark Johnson shares an hour of his time to discuss his new book Seizing the White Space with Zane Safrit of Blog Talk Radio.  Listen here!