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1. PATTERN
1. Unbundling Business Models
2. The Long Tails
3. Multi-Sided Platforms
4. FREE as a Business Model
5. Open Business Model
2. “Pattern in architecture is the
idea of capturing architectural
design ideas as archetypal and
reusable descriptions.”
Christopher Alexander, Architect
3. pattern
• similar characteristics, similar arrangements
or similar behaviors, we call these
similarities business model patterns.
• the goal in defining and describing these
business model patterns is to recast well-
known business concepts in a standardized
format
4. 1. Unbundling Business Models
• The concept of the “unbundled” corporation
holds that there are three fundamentally different
types of businesses: (1) Customer Relationship
businesses, (2) Product innovation businesses, and
(3) infrastructure businesses.
• Each type has different economic, competitive, and
cultural imperatives.
• The three types may co-exist within a single
corporation, but ideally they are “unbundled” into
separate entities in order to avoid conflicts or
undesirable trade-offs.
• Example: mobile telecom industry, private banking
5.
6.
7. Unbundling the Mobile Telco
• Mobile telecommunication firms have started
unbundling their businesses.
• Traditionally they competed on network quality, but
now they are striking network sharing deals with
competitors or outsourcing network operations
altogether to equipment manufacturers.
• Why? Because they realize that their key asset is no
longer the network—it is their brand and their
Customer Relationships.
8.
9. Equipment Manufacturers
• Telcos such as France Telecom, KPN, and Vodafone have outsourced
operation and maintenance of some of their networks to equipment
manufacturers such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, and
Ericsson.
• Equipment manufacturers can run the networks at lower cost because they
service several telcos at a time and thus benefit from economies of scale.
10. Unbundled Telco
• After unbundling its infrastructure business, a telco can sharpen its focus on branding and
segmenting customers and services.
• Customer relationships comprise its key asset and its core business. By concentrating on
customers and increasing share of wallet with current subscribers, it can leverage investments
made over the years acquiring and retaining customers.
• One of the first mobile telcos to pursue strategic unbundling was Bharti Airtel, now one of
India’s leading telcos. It outsourced network operations to Ericsson and Nokia Siemens
Networks and IT infrastructure to IBM, allowing the company to focus on its core competency:
building Customer Relationships.
11. Content Providers
• For product and service innovation, the unbundled telco can turn to smaller, creative firms.
• Innovation requires creative talent, which smaller and more dynamic organizations typically do
a better job of attracting.
• Telcos work with multiple third-parties that assure a constant supply of new technologies,
services, and media content such as mapping, games, video, and music. Two examples are
Mobilizy of Austria and Sweden’s tat.
• Mobilizy focuses on location-based service solutions for smartphones (it developed a popular
mobile travel guide), and tat concentrates on creating advanced mobile user interfaces.
15. Long Tail Business Models are
about selling less of more...
• They focus on offering a large number of niche
products, each of which sells relatively
infrequently or low volumes.
✓focusing on “hit” products can produce (even
exceeding) revenues.
✓Long Tail business models require low inventory
costs and strong platforms to make niche content
readily available to interested buyers.
16. Three Economics Triggers
(by Chris Anderson)
• 3 economics triggers gave rise to this
phenomenon in media industry...
• Democratization of tools of production
• Democratization of distribution
• Falling search costs to connect supply with
demand
18. TheTransformation of the • The traditional book
Book Publishing Industry publishing model is built
(Lulu.com) on a process of selection
whereby publishers
screen many authors and
manuscripts and select
those that seem most
likely to achieve
minimum sales targets.
• Publishers are most
interested in books they
Old Model can print in quantity for
sale to large audiences.
19. TheTransformation of the • enabling anyone to
publish.
Book Publishing
Industry(Lulu.com) • is based on helping niche
and amateur authors
bring their work to
market.
• providing authors the
tools to craft, print, and
distribute their work
through an online
marketplace.
A New Model • authors become
customers.
22. Long-Tail Pattern
• The value proposition of a Long Tail business
model is characterized by offering a wide scope of
“non-hit” items that may co-exist with “hit”
products. Long Tail business models may also
facilitate and build on user-generated content.
• Long Tail business models focus on niche
customers, can serve both professional and
amateur content producers, and may create a
multi-sided platform catering to users and
producers alike.
23. Long-Tail Pattern
• Long Tail business models usually rely on the
Internet as a customer relationship and/or
transaction channel.
• Niche content providers (professional and/or user-
generated) are the key partners in this pattern.
• The key resource is the platform; key activities
include platform development and maintenance and
niche content acquisition and production.
24. Long-Tail Pattern
• The main costs incurred cover platform
development and maintenance
• This model is based on aggregating small revenues
from a large number of items. revenue streams
vary; they may come from advertising, product sales,
or subscriptions.
25. Tasks...
• please define and create a long tail business
model and pattern for eBay, YouTube and
Facebook
• each group choose one source example
(eBay or YouTube or Facebook)
27. bring together two or more distinct but
interdependent groups of customers.
• Such platforms are of value to one group of
customers only if the other groups of customers
are also present.
• The platform creates value by facilitating
interactions between the different groups.
• A multi-sided platform grows in value to the
extent that it attracts more users, a phenomenon
known as the network effect.
28. • Visa Credit Card: link merchants with cardholders
• Microsoft Windows: link hardware manufacturers,
application developers
• The Financial Times: link readers and advertisers
• Wii game console: link game developers with
players
• Google: ..............
• Facebook: ................
• eBay: ........................
29. “chicken and egg” dilemma
• One way multi-sided platforms solve this problem is
by SUBSIDIZING a Customer Segment.
• Platform operator often decides to lure one
segment to the platform with an inexpensive
or free Value Proposition in order to
subsequently attract users of the platform’s “other
side.”
• One difficulty multi-sided platform operators face is
understanding WHICH SIDE to subsidize and
HOW TO price correctly to attract customers.
30. Google’s Business Model
• The model only
works, though, if
many people use
Google’s search
engine. The more
people Google
reaches, the more ads
it can display and the
greater the value
created for
advertisers.
31. Google’s Business Model
•Value Propositions:
1. Targeted Ads or
advertising (AdWords)
2. Free search or Web
search (Google.com),
3. third-party content
monetization (AdSense)
•Google’s Revenue Model makes money from one Customer
Segment, advertisers, while subsidizing free offers to two other
segments: Web surfers and content owners.
•Key Activities can be defined as follows: (1) building and
maintaining the search infrastructure, (2) managing the three
main services, and (3) promoting the platform to new users,
content owners, and advertisers.
32. Apple’s Evolution into a Platform Operator
In 2003 Apple introduced the
In 2003 Apple introduced the In 2008 Apple consolidated its
In 2008 Apple consolidated its
The iPod represented aa
The iPod represented iTunes Music Store, which was
iTunes Music Store, which was platform strategy by launching its
platform strategy by launching its
technology platform for storing closely integrated with the iPod. App Store for the highly popular
technology platform for storing closely integrated with the iPod. App Store for the highly popular
music from various sources.
music from various sources. iPhone.
iPhone.
The store was Apple’s first
The store was Apple’s first
Apple was not exploiting the
Apple was not exploiting the attempt at exploiting platform
attempt at exploiting platform The App Store allows users to
The App Store allows users to
platform aspect of the iPod in its effects. iTunes essentially
platform aspect of the iPod in its effects. iTunes essentially browse, buy, & download apps
browse, buy, & download apps
business model
business model connected “music rightsholders” directly from the iTunes Store &
connected “music rightsholders” directly from the iTunes Store &
directly with buyers.
directly with buyers. install them on their iPhones.
install them on their iPhones.
33.
34. 4. FREE as a Business
Model
(how) can you set it free?
35. Receiving something free of charge has
always been an attractive Value Proposition.
• The question, of course, is how can you systematically
offer something for free and still earn substantial
revenues?
• In the free business model at least one substantial
Customer Segment is able to continuously
benefit from a free-of-charge offer.
• Different patterns make the free offer possible.
• Non-paying customers are financed by another
part of the business model or by another Customer
Segment.
36. • Traditional FREE pattern: Advertising
• other: freemium model, which provides basic service
free of charge and premium services for a fee, have
become popular in step with the increasing
digitization of goods and services offered via the
Web.
Examples:
• Metro (free paper) • Skype
• Flickr •Google
• Open Source •Free Mobile Phones
37. the 3 patterns of FREE
1. free offer based on multi-sided platforms
(advertising-based),
2. free basic services with optional premium
services (the so-called “freemium” model),
3. the “bait & hook” model whereby a free or
inexpensive initial offer lure customers into
repeat purchases
38. 1. Advertising: a Multi-Sided Platform Model
• Metro (free paper)
One side of the platform is designed
to attract users with free content,
products, or services. Another side
of the platform generates revenue
by selling space to advertisers.
The genius of Metro lies in how it modified the traditional daily newspaper model.
First, it offered the paper for free.
Second, it focused on distributing in high-traffic commuter zones and public transport networks by
hand and with self-service racks. Metro developed its own distribution network.
Third, it cut editorial costs to produce a paper just good enough to entertain younger commuters
during their short rides to and from work.
43. 3. Bait & Hook or Loss Leader
• Bait & Hook of Free Mobile
Phones “Bait & hook” refers to a business
model pattern characterized by an
attractive, inexpensive, or free
initial offer that encourages
continuing future purchases of
related products or services.
refers to a subsidized, even
money-losing initial offer with the
intention of generating profits from
subsequent purchases.
Also known as a razor & blades model, popularized by King C. Gillette, inventor of the disposable
razor blade. This pattern is to describe the general idea of luring customer with an initial offering,
while earning from follow-up sales.
In telecommunications industry, mobile network operators offer free telephone handsets bundled
with service subscriptions and get money from subsequent monthly service fees.
44. Razor & Blades: Gillette
The key to this model is
the close link between
the inexpensive or free
initial product and the
follow-up item—usually
disposable—on which
the company earns a
high margin.
• In 1904 King C. Gillette, who commercialized the
first disposable razor blade system, decided to sell
razor handles at a steep discount or even give them
away with other products in order to create
demand for his disposable blades.
47. OPEN Business Model
• can be used by companies to create and capture
value by systematically collaborating with
outside partners.
• This may happen from the “outside-in” by
exploiting external ideas within the firm, or from
the “inside-out” by providing external parties
with ideas or assets lying idle within the firm.
52. GlaxoSmithKline’s:
Patent Pools - Inside Out
• The inside-out approach to open innovation
ordinarily focuses on monetizing unused internal
assets, primarily patents and technology.
53. The Connector: Innocentive
• Companies seeking insights from external researchers
incur substantial costs when trying to attract people
or organizations with knowledge that could solve
their problems.
- Windows software development kit (SDK) away for free to encourage development of new applications for its operating system. The larger number of applications attracted more users to the Windows platform and increased Microsoft ’ s revenues. - Sony ’ s Playstation 3 game console, on the other hand, is an example of a multi-sided platform strategy that backfired. Sony subsidized each console purchased in hopes of later collecting more game royalties. This strategy performed poorly because fewer Playstation 3 games sold than Sony initially estimated.
- its Value Proposition of providing extremely targeted text advertising globally over the Web. - AdWords on Google ’ s search pages and AdSense at third party ’ s own sites, also tools, such as Gmail, Google maps, & Picasa.
- the more ads it displays to Web surfers, the more it earns from advertisers. - Increased advertising earnings, in turn, motivates even more content owners to become AdSense partners. - The substantial revenue that Google earns from AdWords allows it to continuously improve its free offers to search engine and AdSense users.
The evolution of Apple ’ s product line from the iPod to the iPhone highlights the company ’ s transition to a powerful platform business model pattern. The iPod was initially a stand-alone device. The iPhone, on the contrary, evolved into a powerful multi-sided platform for which Apple controls third party applications through its App Store.
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