Kickass Companies:Leveraging business models with great leadership

This paper is based on a study of 755 Danish SMEs and further in-depth case studies of 12 of these. Itsobjective was to identify a model of components and relationships among the very best, most efficient,high-performing SMEs. We call these Kickass Companies. The result is a model made up of six interrelated dimensions, which together illustrate what makes up a Kickass Company:You need willpowerYou need to be there for your customersYou strive to be the bestSuccess is a “we thing”You need to be able to accelerateUse motivating KPIsFollowing these six dimensions might not be a guarantee of success, and not all components will be implementable in all types of companies. However, the empirical evidence here suggests that, if companies think along these lines of doing business, their probability of success will be higher than otherwise

Booster Cards: A Practical Tool for Unlocking Business Model Innovation

Business model innovation, whether it being BM design or reconfiguration, is a difficult task both to enact and to teach/apply. In this paper we describe the use of booster cards to enhance the process and how the booster cards help both students and practitioners better grasp the innovation process