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Operating Model Canvas book review – Andrew Campbell, Mikel Gutierrez, Mark Lancelott

2024-02-282017-11-13 by Remo Knops

Operating Model Canvas – Aligning operations and organization with strategy is the title of the latest book of Andrew Campbell, Mikel Gutierrez, Mark Lancelott. The look and feel is very much like the Business Model Generation handbook from Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur Alan Smith, Patrick Van der Pijl and Tim Clark.

I this book review I will get you through the Operating Model Canvas book structure, the Operating Model Canvas Toolbox and compare it with the Business Model Canvas and Process Model Canvas. Finally I will give a business analysis view on the Operating Model Canvas.

Design a Better Business – Book review

2024-04-052017-01-23 by Remo Knops

Design a Better Business is the result of a hunderd-day-race of Patrick van der Pijl from Business Models Inc, Justin Lokitz from Business Models San Francisco and Lisa Kay Solomon co-author of the bestseller Moments of Impact. Designers Maarten van Lieshout and Erik van der Pluijm completed the Design a Better Business (book)team.

Based on the design thinking model (double loop) various must-have tools, skills and case studies are discussed for each phase in the model. So let’s dive into the book structure first and see if the highly visual work book consumes as easy as the Business Model Generation Handbook.

Process Model Canvas – Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting

2024-10-022017-01-09 by Remo Knops

The Process Model Canvas is developed by Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting and is complementary to Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas. The PM Canvas will help you define the operating model that needs to be adopted, but HOW do you do that?

Onetastic addin for Microsoft OneNote

2024-11-042016-12-19 by Remo Knops

Onetastic is addin for Microsoft OneNote supercharges your OneNote client with macros that can be downloaded from Macroland, a note overview in OneCalendar, Image Utilities, Custom Styles, Favorites/Shortcuts and much more.

Driver to give Onetastic for Microsoft OneNote a trie, was the article “Why I’m Dumping Evernote for OneNote” of Sascha Segan on PCMag. I know Sascha from past Mobius Conferences, when he still was writing for Gear Log.

Curiosity Profile Assessment – Harvard Business Review

2024-08-132016-05-23 by Remo Knops

Harvard Business Review published the Curiosity Profile Assessment a little while ago. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of Business Psychology at University College London, states that curiosity is a vital quality for “people who ask smart questions, explore new ideas and solutions, and are eager to grow“.

Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Book review

2024-01-202014-11-18 by Remo Knops

I’ve purchased the book Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0 and participated in the StrengthsFinder online assessment. The resulting report really provided me with helpful insights for my professional- and personal development. I was tipped about the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment by Julie Brown, Talent Development Manager at Microsoft.

Business Model Canvas

2024-10-292013-08-26 by Remo Knops

In this article I will briefly explain the business model canvas, a great tool which results in the business model on one single page. It is the perfect tool to systematically understand, design or reinvent ways to create, deliver and capture value, or in other words innovate a business model.

Who moved my cheese ? (Johnson) Book review

2024-08-132012-04-23 by Remo Knops

In this article I will review the book “Who moved my Cheese?” – An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life. It is one of the most successful business books ever and written by Spencer Johnson co-author of The One Minute Manager ~ (Blanchard & Johnson, 1983) and The One Minute Sales Person ~ (Johnson & Wilson, 1984).

Peter F. Drucker – Managing Oneself

2024-08-132012-03-26 by Remo Knops

As the result of looking a Corporate Effectuation from a personal development perspective, I came across the Managing Oneself Harvard Business Review article from Peter F. Drucker. In this article I will provide a quick overview of Drucker’s main focus points to manage oneself.

Steve van Wyk, CIO ING Bank – Building the preferred Bank

2024-04-072010-10-25 by Remo Knops

Stress, the University of Twente’s largest study association, organized an awesome guest-lecture with Steve van Wyk, CIO @ ING Bank. The theme of the lecture is “Challenges @ ING” and one of the topics is the merger of the Postbank and ING, the challenges that came with it and how they were overcome.

In this article I will provide some of the interesting topics from the lecture, and for those who haven’t attended this lecture you really missed a great opportunity to have a detailed look at the technology-side of ING.