Yves Pigneur (born 1954) is a Belgian computer scientist, and Professor of Management Information Systems at the

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since 1984, known for his work on the business model canvas with

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. He is considered a "mastermind" among business strategics, his canvas have been used by numerous companies such as P&G,

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, Lockheed Martin and Tesla.

Biography

Pigneur obtained his PhD in Information Systems in 1984 at the

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"Yves Pigneur, Professor at the University of Lausanne," at linkedin.com. Accessed June 7, 2015. under François Bodart. Pigneur had started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the

in 1977. After his graduation he was appointed Professor of Management Information Systems at the

in 1984. He was at Visiting professor at the National University of Singapore in 2012, at the

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in 2013, at the

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, and the

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. Pigneur authored and co-authored a series of books and articles since the 1980s, and became globally known as co-author with Alexander Osterwalder of the 2010 book ''Business Model Generation.'' Pigneur and Osterwalder are considered one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers. They placed 15th on The Thinkers50 Ranking 2015 and 7th in 2017, a list drawn up every two years and described by ''The'' ''Financial Times'' as the “Oscars of management thinking.” They also received one of the 11 Distinguished Achievement Awards (in the “Strategy” category) in 2015.http://thinkers50.com/biographies/alexander-osterwalder-yves-pigneur

Selected publications

* François Bodart, Yves Pigneur. ''Conception assistée des applications informatiques, Volume 1.'' Masson, 1983. * Osterwalder, Alexander, and Yves Pigneur. ''Business Model Generation: A Handbook For Visionaries, Game Changers, And Challengers.'' Wiley, 2010. Articles, a selection: * Bodart, F., Hennebert, A. M., Leheureux, J. M., & Pigneur, Y. (1985). "Computer-aided specification, evaluation, and monitoring of information systems." In ''Proceedings of the 1985 International Conference on Information Systems'' (pp. 27–44). * Osterwalder, Alexander, and Yves Pigneur. "An eBusiness model ontology for modeling eBusiness." ''BLED 2002 Proceedings'' (2002): 2. * Dubosson‐Torbay, Magali,

, and Yves Pigneur.
E‐business model design, classification, and measurements
" ''Thunderbird International Business Review'' 44.1 (2002): 5-23. * Osterwalder, Alexander, Yves Pigneur, and Christopher L. Tucci.
Clarifying business models: Origins, present, and future of the concept
" ''Communications of the association for Information Systems'' 16.1 (2005): 1.

References

External links

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