Business model patterns are reusable
business model architectural components, which can be used in generating a new
business model. In the process of new business model generation, the business model innovator can use one or more of these patterns to creating a new business model. Each of these patterns has similarities in characteristics, business model building blocks arrangements and behaviors.
Alexander Osterwalder
Alexander Osterwalder (born 1974) is a Swiss business theorist,Arent van 't Spijker (2014). ''The New Oil: Using Innovative Business Models to turn Data Into Profit.'' p. 70 author, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur, known for his work on busin ...
call these similarities the "business model pattern".
''"Innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption are not about creative genius"'',
says A. Osterwalder explaining the need for business model patterns.
Given the goal of reducing costs of the complex software development, it is necessary to use ready-made unified solutions. The pattern facilitates communication between developers via referring to well-known constructions and reduces the number of errors.
Types
* Unbundling business model
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Long tail
In statistics and business, a long tail of some probability distribution, distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having many occurrences far from the "head" or central part of the distribution. The distribution could involv ...
model
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Multi-sided platform model
* Free as a business model
* Open business model
See also
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Business Model Canvas
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Business model
References
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