Events

June 7, 2011 – CONNECT FrameWorks workshop
Maximizing Value: Design your Company to Unleash its True Potential

Companies today compete in open, turbulent markets that present both huge opportunities and significant challenges. In such markets, the traditional approach to company design – a functional organization focused on executing a single primary business – delivers suboptimal results at best, and can lead to disaster.

To navigate today’s markets successfully, you should design your company as a flexible, adaptive network, comprising a portfolio of businesses leveraging a central business model platform and an external partner ecosystem.

This workshop will present an overview of this new approach to company design. The impact of applying these design principles is enormous: you will unleash your company’s true potential, accelerating your short-term performance and maximizing your long-term value.

February 3rd, 2011 — CONNECT FrameWorks Workshop:  
Agile Strategy for New Ventures 

This workshop presented an introduction to agile strategy for new ventures, covering: 

• Business design: how to select the right granular market opportunities, and design innovative business models that deliver distinctive value to customers in those markets and become cash-generating “engines” for your company.
• Company design: how to design your company for efficiency, flexibility and scalability using central enabling platforms, an evolving portfolio of market-facing businesses, and a diverse array of partners to leverage and shape your markets’ ecosystems.
• Management design: how to design an organization that unleashes the passion, energy and creativity of your people, and a strategy process that actually drives short and long term results.

December 1, 2010 — Startup Leadership Forum:
Agile Strategy for Startups

This custom designed workshop provided an overview of agile strategy for startups, focusing on market selection and business model innovation. It was delivered as a module of the Startup Leadership Program, a 9-month program that attracts outstanding first-time and future Startup CEOs in their mid-20s to mid-30s from diverse backgrounds with a history of achievement or expertise, and the potential to be a successful startup CEO. In post event feedback, participants "all said they loved (the) presentation and found it to be most valuable (and that’s not just comparing it to the other speakers in this program but in all their experiences)."

June 23, 2010 – Business Model Innovation

Time: Check-in and breakfast begin at 7:15 am, event will be held from 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Location: Mother Rosalie Hall Room 102, University of San Diego

In 2010 and beyond, companies face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Winners are creating whole new industries, and losers are collapsing more quickly than could have been imagined just ten years ago. To navigate these successfully, companies need to supplant 20th century “strategic planning” with 21st century “agile strategy” - an approach that is continuous, innovative, collaborative and highly responsive to rapidly changing market conditions.

One of the pillars of agile strategy is business model innovation – designing new and successful business models to compete effectively in today’s dynamic, open markets. In many industries, traditional business models are being disrupted by a wide range of innovative models that deliver greater value to customers and capture more of that value for companies. Recent research by the Boston Consulting Group demonstrates that business model innovation delivers significantly greater shareholder returns than product or process innovation alone.

This session will present a powerful new approach to business model innovation. It will describe the five critical elements of a business model, and discuss numerous examples of recent business model innovations in both business and consumer markets. This session will challenge you, provoke you, and potentially transform the way you think about your company’s strategy and business models.

May 10, 2010 — Tech Coast Angels: the Power of Angel Investing

This full-day seminar provided an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals and developing angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success. This highly interactive program provided attendees with practical information on best practices in angel investing through a balance of expert presentations, panel discussions and small group case studies. A faculty of experienced angel investors, serial entrepreneurs and expert service providers delivered the seminar.

April 26 - May 24, 2010 — Online course: Business Model Design and Innovation

This powerful online course will give you a complete introduction to business model design and innovation. It explains where business model design fits into strategy and execution, and it includes a review of dozens of successful business models, both old and new. The course comprises five one-hour, instructor led weekly sessions. Sessions are recorded for subsequent review.

April 27, 2010 — CONNECT Frameworks Workshop
Strategy in the 21st century: open innovation, business model design and portfolio agility

In 2010 and beyond, high tech, life sciences, cleantech and other science- and technology-based companies face daunting challenges and unprecedented opportunities. However, many executives leading companies today are still using strategy thinking and tools developed in the 20th century. This workshop will present a powerful new approach to strategy development designed for 21st century companies. This session will challenge you, provoke you, and transform the way you think about your company’s strategy.