What is *Reinvent Your Business Model* by Mark W. Johnson about?

*Reinvent Your Business Model* provides a structured framework for innovating or transforming business models to drive growth. It identifies four core building blocks—**customer value proposition**, **resources**, **processes**, and **profit formula**—and offers a repeatable process for creating disruptive models or adapting to market shifts. The book combines theoretical insights with case studies (e.g., Uber, Amazon) to show how companies can seize "white space" opportunities.

Who should read *Reinvent Your Business Model*?

This book is ideal for **business leaders**, **entrepreneurs**, and **strategists** seeking actionable methods to innovate or adapt business models. It’s particularly relevant for those navigating industry disruption, digital transformation, or exploring new markets. Consultants and corporate teams will benefit from its practical frameworks for managing systemic change.

Is *Reinvent Your Business Model* worth reading?

Yes—it’s a Top 10 Business Strategy Book (per *Inc.*) and distills decades of research into a clear, actionable playbook. Mark W. Johnson, co-founder of Innosight and Clayton Christensen’s collaborator, provides tools to turn business model innovation from an abstract concept into a measurable discipline, supported by real-world successes and failures.

What are the four building blocks of a business model in the book?

Johnson’s framework defines a business model through: 1. **Customer value proposition** (meeting unmet needs) 2. **Key resources** (assets like talent, technology, partnerships) 3. **Key processes** (operational and managerial workflows) 4. **Profit formula** (revenue streams, cost structure, and margins) These elements enable companies to systematically design or reinvent models.

How does *Reinvent Your Business Model* define "white space"?

"White space" refers to untapped opportunities outside a company’s current operations—serving existing customers in new ways or reaching entirely new markets. Examples include disruptive products, digital transformations, or leveraging regulatory changes. Johnson argues seizing white space requires dedicated teams and separation from legacy systems.

What role does digital transformation play in business model innovation?

The book highlights digital transformation as a catalyst for reinvention, enabling scalability, personalization, and efficiency. Case studies like Amazon show how digital tools can unearth white space (e.g., AWS). Johnson emphasizes that digital shifts demand new profit formulas and processes, not just technology adoption.

What are common pitfalls when reinventing a business model?

Key challenges include: - Resistance from legacy processes and corporate "antibodies" - Misaligned profit formulas for new vs. existing models - Underestimating the need for separate teams/structures - Failing to validate assumptions through iterative testing The book advises incubating new models independently to avoid these risks.

How does *Reinvent Your Business Model* compare to Clayton Christensen’s work?

Johnson co-founded Innosight with Christensen and expands on his disruption theory. While Christensen focused on *why* incumbents fail, this book provides a *how-to* guide for building future-proof models. It operationalizes academic concepts into a step-by-step process for leaders.

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The Business of Transformation: How Innovation Reshapes Industries

When Lockheed Martin successfully tested its P-791 hybrid airship in 2006, the company faced an unexpected dilemma. Despite immediate commercial interest in this strange "three puffy hot dogs strapped together" craft that could transport massive payloads to remote locations, Lockheed hesitated for eight years before commercializing it. Why would a company delay capitalizing on a successful innovation? The answer lies in the challenge of business model innovation - the focus of Mark Johnson's "Reinvent Your Business Model." This book, originally published as "Seizing the White Space," has proven increasingly relevant as digital transformation reshapes industries. Praised by Clayton Christensen and business leaders alike, Johnson's framework has helped countless organizations navigate disruptive change. As companies like Blockbuster, Nokia, and A&P supermarkets have collapsed while others like Apple, Amazon and Netflix have thrived, one thing remains clear: technology alone doesn't drive transformation - the business model wrapped around it determines success or failure.

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Understanding the White Space Opportunity

Every established company operates within a well-defined sphere - delivering specific value for compensation through established processes. When opportunities arise outside this core, companies face a critical choice: pursue them as adjacencies using existing business models or venture into what Johnson calls the "white space" - potential activities undefined by the current business model that require fundamentally different approaches. White space opportunities exist where assumptions are high and knowledge is low - the opposite of conditions in a company's core business. For Lockheed Martin, the hybrid airship represented precisely this challenge. While their core business excelled at delivering complex military systems through structured government contracts, commercializing the airship would require unfamiliar capabilities: a commercial sales force, industry-specific expertise, marketing skills, customizable offerings, and financial approaches entirely different from government accounting standards. The dilemma companies face is real: continue targeting existing customers with familiar approaches or risk venturing where many have failed? Yet avoiding white space means missing transformational opportunities to change markets or address competitive threats. As former Lockheed CEO Norm Augustine once joked, "When it comes to diversification, the defense industry's record is unblemished by success." Nevertheless, in 2014, Lockheed finally partnered with Hybrid Enterprises to provide the capabilities they lacked, recognizing that seizing white space requires developing new skills, strengths, and ways to make money. Consider Apple's transformation through the iPod. Though not the first digital music player, Apple's genius lay in wrapping technology in a revolutionary business model. By launching iTunes Store 18 months after the iPod, Apple created a tightly woven ecosystem that locked hardware, software and digital music together. This white-space move transformed Apple from a struggling computer maker into a lifestyle media leader, increasing its market capitalization from $5.4 billion in 2002 to $133 billion by 2007.

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The Four-Box Business Model Framework

Drama coach Konstantin Stanislavsky once instructed an actor struggling to feel fear to simply dive under a table and cover his head. When asked what he felt afterward, the actor replied, "I feel afraid." Stanislavsky concluded: "Sometimes you feel afraid and you dive under the table, but sometimes, if you dive under the table, you will feel afraid." This profound insight illustrates that while creative inspiration often leads to structure, structure just as often unlocks creativity. Every successful business is built on four interdependent elements: a customer value proposition (CVP) that solves an important customer job-to-be-done; a profit formula defining how the company captures value; and key resources and processes that deliver value in a repeatable, scalable fashion. These elements form a stable system with complex interdependencies - change one and you affect them all. A powerful CVP identifies an important, unsatisfied customer job-to-be-done and delivers a focused solution at the right price. Whole Foods succeeded by serving customers who wanted "full and pleasurable access to a variety of foods and products that meet high standards for quality and honor interests in health, organics, and protecting the environment." Great CVPs are simple, elegant, and focused on a single job rather than attempting to fulfill many jobs at once. The profit formula defines how a company creates value for itself through revenue models, cost structures, margins, and resource velocity. Amazon revolutionized book retailing by dramatically improving inventory turnover while shifting from seller-financed to buyer-financed cash flow. While traditional retailers held books for 168 days, Amazon reduced this to just 17 days, creating 41 days of positive cash float despite paying publishers faster than industry standard. Key resources are the unique assets (people, technology, products, facilities, equipment, funding, and brand) required to deliver the value proposition, while key processes are the means to deliver the CVP in a sustainable, repeatable, scalable way. Though businesses employ many resources and processes, only a few critical ones truly differentiate successful models. Companies increasingly partner for key resources, as with Apple's transformative relationship with Foxconn, which handles production while Apple focuses on design and marketing. Over time, business rules, behavioral norms, and success metrics develop to connect and balance these elements, ensuring consistent delivery of the CVP. These mechanisms that optimize existing operations, however, often severely inhibit the introduction of new business models.

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Transforming Existing Markets from Within

Markets evolve through predictable shifts in their basis of competition - what customers will pay premium prices for. Initially, companies compete on functionality, with customers paying more for features that fulfill practical jobs. When offerings reach "good enough" performance, competition shifts to quality and reliability. Next, customers demand convenience and customization. Finally, markets become commoditized with competition primarily on cost. These shifts fundamentally change the required customer value proposition, often pushing companies to the limits of their existing business models. Dow Corning faced this challenge when its premium silicone products became commoditized. Rather than slashing prices across the board, they created Xiameter - a separate, web-based business unit offering standard silicone products at 15-20% discounts for customers who knew exactly what they wanted and required no technical support. Xiameter's success came from carefully selecting staff who could thrive in a fast-paced environment making quick decisions - people who knew their markets but didn't quite fit Dow Corning's traditional culture. The new venture kept its initial scale small with aggressive timetables, allowing team members to learn while showing early results. Xiameter delivered unexpected benefits to Dow Corning, utilizing excess manufacturing capacity profitably and responding quickly to market fluctuations. By 2006, 35% of Dow Corning's sales originated online - triple the industry average. Similarly, when Hilti found its premium power tools losing ground to competitors, they transformed their business model from selling products to providing fleet management services. This required significant changes in their sales approach - representatives now needed to negotiate complex, long-term partnerships with C-suite executives rather than making quick sales to site managers. After successful piloting in 2000 with just eight customers, Hilti rolled out the program globally within three years. By 2015, the Fleet Management Division was managing over a million tools for one hundred thousand customers worldwide. Beyond responding to market commoditization, companies can transform existing markets by identifying unfulfilled jobs-to-be-done. FedEx revolutionized package delivery by creating a hub-and-spoke model specifically designed to move valuable packages overnight reliably - a job that incumbent Emery Air Freight couldn't fulfill with its passenger airline-dependent system. Starting with just fourteen aircraft serving twenty-five cities in 1971, FedEx became the first US company to reach $1 billion in revenue without mergers or acquisitions.

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Breaking Barriers to Create New Markets

Creating entirely new markets requires identifying and removing barriers that prevent potential customers from consuming existing products. This "white space beyond" strategy targets nonconsumers who are excluded from markets because offerings are too expensive, complicated, or inaccessible. The four main barriers to consumption are skills, access, time, and wealth. Intuit's QuickBooks broke skills barriers by simplifying accounting software for small business owners. Whole Foods solved access issues by creating a one-stop shopping experience for organic and specialty foods. MinuteClinic addressed time constraints by offering convenient healthcare for common ailments in pharmacy settings. While nonconsumers exist across all socioeconomic levels, particularly rich opportunities exist in emerging markets where companies can "democratize" products for previously unreachable consumers. Cellular technology companies like America Movil and Vodafone have used leasing models to overcome infrastructure limitations in developing countries. Chinese appliance maker Galanz captured nearly 40% of the world microwave market by creating small, energy-efficient ovens suited for cramped apartments with limited power. Hindustan Unilever's Shakti Initiative radically transformed rural distribution by creating a partner network with village women entrepreneurs. The company redefined its customer as the Shakti ammas themselves, focusing on delivering a viable business opportunity rather than just products. This required developing new skills to work with self-help groups, NGOs and government organizations. Despite losing money for three years during development, Shakti scaled to 45,000 entrepreneurs by 2007, reaching 100,000 villages and generating $100 million in sales by 2008. The initiative doubled household incomes for participants while improving village hygiene and health awareness. Now with 70,000 representatives serving 4 million households, Shakti has become a platform for growth being replicated across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As knowledge evolves from unstructured guesswork to rule-based decision making, opportunities emerge to democratize products and services. MinuteClinic recognized that while medical knowledge had advanced dramatically, healthcare delivery hadn't changed - doctors in "solution shops" were applying expensive skills to both complex and simple procedures. By disaggregating rule-based diagnostics from complex cases, MinuteClinic created pharmacy-based kiosks where nurse practitioners could diagnose common ailments, breaking barriers to basic healthcare access.

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Navigating Industry Disruptions

When unpredictable forces create tectonic shifts across industries, companies face both threats and opportunities in the "white space between" what was and what will be. Unlike evolutionary market changes, these discontinuities require more radical business model innovation. Three key forces drive these shifts: unpredictable market demand changes, discontinuous technology shifts, and dramatic government policy changes - often working in concert to produce volatile disruptions. The defense industry illustrates this challenge. During the Cold War, the military valued large-scale, expensive weapons systems, and defense contractors built high-margin, low-volume solution shops to match. The 9/11 attacks and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq dramatically changed combat needs, requiring mobile body armor, protected vehicles, and decentralized communications rather than advanced battleships. This shift demands a new business model capable of producing good-enough solutions in volume and responding quickly to changing conditions. New technologies aren't inherently disruptive-their impact depends on how well they fit within existing business models. Sometimes they strengthen incumbents, as when the internet enhanced Charles Schwab's discount brokerage services. Technologies can also enable transformation of existing markets or creation of new ones. But the same technology that represents opportunity for one company often spells disruption for another. Mini-mill technology enabled smaller steel producers like Nucor to undercut Big Steel, gradually improving until they transformed the entire industry. The internet has created more new business models than perhaps any technology since the light bulb, with over 30% of business model innovations in the early 2000s being internet-enabled. Meanwhile, internet-driven models have devastated traditional industries-Encyclopedia Britannica fell to Wikipedia, travel agencies to online booking sites, and newspapers continue struggling against customized digital offerings. Social contracts binding consumers and markets within national boundaries can also shift dramatically due to political or social forces. The 1973 deregulation of U.S. healthcare gave rise to HMOs and various intermediary models. Similarly, European airline deregulation in the 1990s broke national carriers' dominance, creating opportunities for low-cost airlines like EasyJet and Ryanair.

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Digital Transformation: Technology Meets Business Model

Digital technology is transforming our world in ways that would have beggared the imaginations of science fiction writers. While technology enables transformative business growth, it cannot create it alone - successful transformation requires innovative business models. Amazon's remarkable growth from $4 billion in 2002 to $107 billion in 2015 demonstrates how digital technology paired with business model innovation drives success. Amazon consistently ventures into all white spaces-within, beyond, and between. After disrupting the book industry, Amazon expanded within its white space to offer various consumer goods. It then moved beyond by creating a commission-based brokerage service for third-party sellers. In 2002, Amazon identified another white space beyond its retail core, launching web services for the IT community-requiring completely different processes, resources, and profit formula. By 2016, Amazon Web Services generated $12.2 billion in revenue and over half the company's operating profit. While any technology without a viable business model can lead to commercial failure, digital technologies drive value creation in four predictable ways: 1. E-commerce: From Warby Parker selling designer eyeglasses to consumers to Dow Corning's Xiameter selling silicone to manufacturers. 2. Digital platforms: Value-creating interactions between producers and consumers, like Airbnb connecting room owners with travelers, or software companies streaming applications to subscribers via the cloud. 3. Models that turn data into assets: Using data management and analysis to derive value from large volumes of proprietary data, exemplified by Google's targeted advertising or the Weather Company's forecasting service. 4. Automation-enabled services: Harnessing software to perform jobs formerly done by people, from warehouse robots to autonomous vehicles. In 2014, Microsoft announced it would provide Windows free to manufacturers of small-screen devices and made its programming tools open source-the beginning of a massive white space strategy transforming Microsoft's core business model. After dominating tech growth in the 1980s-90s, Microsoft stalled as cloud-based subscriptions disrupted its packaged software model. Microsoft launched Azure cloud computing in 2010 under Satya Nadella, who became CEO in 2014 with a "cloud-first, mobile-first" strategy. Cloud services now drive Microsoft's revenue growth, with acquisitions like LinkedIn supporting their future vision focused on applications and services rather than operating systems.

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Making Business Model Innovation a Repeatable Process

While the companies discussed previously succeeded through bold leadership, intuition, and some luck, they largely lacked a structured approach to business model innovation. Drawing from these experiences, a repeatable three-step process emerges: First, identify a real customer job-to-be-done; second, create a blueprint for fulfilling that job profitably using the four-box business model framework; and third, implement the model by bringing together the necessary resources and processes. Business model innovation requires abandoning the inside-out perspective of existing products to focus on unmet customer jobs. The process demands thinking like an entrepreneur rather than a corporate executive, approaching the market with fresh eyes to discover what customers truly need done. This customer-centric approach means moving beyond asking "What do you need?" to asking "What are you trying to get done?" - a fundamental shift that reveals genuine market opportunities rather than phantom segments based on demographics or product features. The case of DentCo demonstrates the power of a jobs-based approach. When facing price competition, instead of asking dentists what product attributes they wanted, DentCo asked what they were trying to accomplish. This revealed that all dental practitioners-regardless of specialty-shared the common job of building successful practices by offering current care, managing successful businesses, and establishing reputations. Their primary barrier was time. Armed with this insight, DentCo could develop value-added services like clinical support hotlines and training programs rather than engaging in a ruinous price war. Successful business models address not just functional aspects of jobs but also their social and emotional dimensions. Hindustan Unilever elevated their Shakti ammas from mere salespeople to community health educators, boosting their social standing. In fashion, Zara revolutionized retail by focusing on the emotional job of "helping customers feel good about how they look" and the social job of staying current. By creating an integrated supply chain that could deliver new designs in as little as fifteen days-versus the industry's typical fifteen months-Zara addressed customers' desire for instant fashion gratification. Creating a new business model begins with designing the Customer Value Proposition (CVP) that addresses the identified job-to-be-done at a specific price. When developing a profit formula, take a flexible approach focused on customer value rather than forcing conformity to existing financial structures. A useful tool is the "reverse income statement" which starts with a profit goal and works backward to define revenue models, cost structures, and unit margins.

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From Blueprint to Reality: Implementation That Works

A great business model blueprint is just the first step toward seizing white space. Implementation requires controlled experimentation in small steps - testing hypotheses, learning lessons, and making adjustments before risking too much. This process should proceed through three stages: incubation, acceleration, and transition, with significant revenue typically only materializing during the transition phase. Incubation focuses on identifying and systematically testing the most critical assumptions to quickly prove or disprove the business proposition's viability. The goal isn't immediate business success but new learning. As Intuit founder Scott Cook explains, "Fast testing is risk reducing," allowing teams to invest a little to learn a lot. Success requires identifying a "foothold market" - a small, friendly customer group or region that represents your larger target market. Hindustan Unilever tested its Shakti Initiative with just seventeen women before expanding, while Hilti refined its model with select Swiss clients before global rollout. Southwest Airlines and Delta's Song Airlines demonstrate how critical internal consistency is to business model success. Southwest targeted regional commuters who couldn't afford air travel, competing against bus services rather than other airlines. Its low-price CVP required low margins, low costs, and high resource velocity. Every element of Southwest's model reinforced these requirements. By contrast, Song aimed at "discount divas" wanting both affordability and style, but created fatal inconsistencies by adding organic food, designer uniforms, and entertainment systems that increased costs and slowed turnaround times. Once a new model proves viable through incubation, acceleration begins by refining and standardizing processes, establishing business rules, and defining success metrics. Acceleration means moving from footholds to broad market adoption, requiring patience and intelligent expansion. Zara exemplifies this approach, operating only in Spain for fifteen years before cautious international expansion, testing markets like Portugal and France before broader growth. The final implementation stage addresses whether the new business should be reintegrated into the core or remain separate. Generally, highest success comes when new businesses remain fully separate from inception until well established. Corporate cultures of advocacy and turf protection can crush business model innovation as "a large segment will always dominate a small one." A new business should remain separate when it requires significantly different business rules and metrics, needs a distinct brand promise, or would disrupt the core business with lower margins.

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Overcoming the Guardians of the Status Quo

Established companies frequently struggle to reinvent their business models despite recognizing opportunities or threats. The business model framework explains why: successful organizations naturally develop loyalty to the model underpinning their success, creating powerful forces that preserve the status quo. Using the metaphor of a fictional "DogCorp" that makes high-quality dogs, Johnson illustrates three ways incumbent organizations kill innovative "cat" ideas that don't fit their existing business model: 1. The "non-dog dilemma" - ideas lacking familiar DNA are rejected through benign neglect. Digital Equipment Corporation dismissed PCs as "non-dogs" because they differed from minicomputers in customer base, margin structure, and manufacturing requirements. 2. "Dogging the cat" - forcing new opportunities into existing business models. Organizations modify innovative ideas to fit existing design paradigms, marketing approaches, and financial metrics until they serve no one's needs. 3. Direct elimination - new initiatives face termination when core businesses struggle, fear cannibalization, or demand premature growth. People unconsciously protect existing business models through implicit rules, behavioral norms, and success metrics that enable efficient execution of the core business but poison new business models. The profit formula becomes particularly rigid, as financial executives reject innovations with different margin structures. Financial analysis often falls prey to the "doctrine of marginal costs," where comparing the full investment of new models against the marginal costs of using existing infrastructure creates a misleading economic picture. Existing resources and processes exert powerful influence on managers who try to leverage core capabilities whether or not they serve new business models. Sony engineers' cultural aversion to hard-drive technology hindered their entry into MP3 players, while Kodak initially avoided filmless imaging. While white-space initiatives can borrow from the core, they must reinvent what doesn't fit. When a company ventures into white space with a new business model, everyone must be clear about which rules to follow, as no one can serve two masters. Without explicit guidance, middle managers rarely think it's in their best interest to embrace new business models when they haven't been released from core business responsibilities.

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Building Organizations That Transform

Peter Drucker observed that every organization's "theory of the business" eventually becomes obsolete. With the average S&P 500 company lifespan shrinking from thirty-three years in 1965 to a projected ten years by 2027, businesses must be "built to transform" rather than merely built to last. This requires focusing first on delivering customer value by identifying important unserved jobs-to-be-done. Business leaders must become model thinkers who understand both current and new models as complex, interdependent systems. While innovation efforts should target transformational opportunities-changing existing markets, creating new ones, or transforming industries-they must start small, using foothold markets to test assumptions and develop necessary resources. Organizations that explicitly understand their current business models are better positioned to capitalize on new opportunities. Business model innovation thrives in cultures of inquiry where new ideas are encouraged, making innovation a repeatable management discipline that can help companies meet their greatest challenges while creating profitable solutions to consumer and societal needs worldwide. Most corporations operate as collections of business units, each with its own business model. Since business units struggle to operate multiple models simultaneously, corporate vitality depends on continuously creating, operating, trading, and closing business units as their models run their course. To seize white space, leaders must balance investment between sustaining growth and new value propositions requiring new business models. They must authorize focused teams dedicated to new ventures, free from having to split time with core responsibilities. These teams need authority to establish their own business rhythm and develop new rules that support the new customer value proposition - authority that can only come from the top. Harvard Business School historian Alfred Chandler argued that "structure follows strategy," yet in reality, strategy emerges from structure-specifically from the business model. For true innovation, leadership teams must begin with customer jobs-to-be-done before considering growth objectives, developing a set of options that might completely reimagine the business model. By recognizing and addressing the "dogs that guard the gates of innovation," leaders can successfully navigate the challenges of incumbency and access profitable white spaces.

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Mark W. Johnson, Co-Autor von Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth, ist ein weltweit anerkannter Experte für Geschäftsmodellinnovation und Wachstumsstrategie. Als Mitbegründer von Innosight zusammen mit Clayton Christensen, dem Vater der Theorie der disruptiven Innovation, hat Johnson zwei Jahrzehnte damit verbracht, Fortune-500-Unternehmen und Institutionen durch transformativen Wandel zu begleiten.

Seine Arbeit an der Architektur von Geschäftsmodellen – detailliert beschrieben durch das im Buch vorgestellte Vier-Elemente-Framework – basiert auf seinem technischen Hintergrund (BS von der US Naval Academy, MS von der Columbia University) und seiner Harvard-MBA-Ausbildung, verfeinert durch Beratungstätigkeiten bei Booz Allen Hamilton und Programme für Führungskräfte.

Johnson erweiterte seine Innovationsphilosophie in Lead from the Future und Dual Transformation, die beide dafür gelobt wurden, visionäre Strategie mit operativer Umsetzung zu verschmelzen. Sein wegweisender Harvard Business Review-Artikel „Reinventing Your Business Model“, den er gemeinsam mit Christensen verfasste, wurde mit dem McKinsey Award für den besten Artikel ausgezeichnet.

Als ehemaliger Marineoffizier mit Nuklearausbildung bringt Johnson militärische Präzision in den organisatorischen Wandel ein, wobei seine Modelle von Konzernen, Regierungen und führenden Business Schools übernommen wurden. Reinvent Your Business Model baut auf seinem 2010 erschienenen Bestseller Seizing the White Space auf, aktualisiert mit neuen Fallstudien und Implementierungswerkzeugen, die von Innovationsteams weltweit genutzt werden.

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