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Delft University of Technology

How to Design a Successful Business Model

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Overview

Do you want to start or grow your own business, go international, or avoid bankruptcy?

In this business and management course, you will learn the key steps to take to design or innovate your own business model. You will learn about the trade-offs to be made, and the design issues that are critical for a viable and sustainable business model.

This course will help you answer questions like, "How do I create a simple business model in a structured way?" and "How do I engage my users and how do I create value for my customers as well as revenue for my company?"

Syllabus

Weeks 1 & 2: Design thinking

  • Why is design thinking relevant?
  • How to structure BM design?

Weeks 3 & 4: Creating value for customers

  • How can I create value for customers in novel ways (=customer-related tool)

Weeks 5 & 6: Drawing a simple BM

  • How can I draw a BM on one single sheet to communicate it? (=BM Canvas)

Week 7 & 8: I-want-to’s

  • How to select the appropriate tooling based on what I want?

Week 9 &10: Special BM patterns

  • Multi-sided BMs

Taught by

Harry Bouwman, Mark de Reuver and Timber Haaker

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3.9 rating at edX based on 7 ratings

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  • It's a great course offering an introduction to different business modeling tools. Some are very popular and I had already worked on these, but some I had never heard of before and are very useful.

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