The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.
Many attempts at business model innovation fail. To change that, executives need to understand how business models develop through predictable stages over time — and then apply that understanding to key decisions about new business models.
Understanding the interdependencies in a business model is important because those interdependencies grow and harden across time, creating another fundamental truth that is critical for leaders to understand: Business models by their very nature are designed not to change, and they become less flexible and more resistant to change as they develop over time. Leaders of the world’s best businesses should take special note, because the better your business model performs at its assigned task, the more interdependent and less capable of change it likely is. The strengthening of these interdependencies is not an intentional act by managers; rather, it comes from the emergence of processes that arise as the natural, collective response to recurrent activities. The longer a business unit exists, the more often it will confront similar problems and the more ingrained its approaches to solving those problems will become. We often refer to these ingrained approaches as a business’s “culture.”
Great article about business model innovation. I was struck by the resemblances of errors made at introducing new value added services to pharmaceuticals, "beyond the pill". The same may possibly be expected by the new "hype" (?) about patient centricity: in my mind doing things without reflection about what it is: ending up in webinars/conferences existing mainly of either pharma staff in which they share their ignorance, or even in pharma staff added with a patient or patient representative, in which the patient is commonly canonized (as in 'sainted'): understandable but not a functional way of developing new trends in a company, let alone a new trend in a business sector..
See here what patients really have to say about corporate pharma companies and its patient "centricity": PatientView.com