By Guido Noto
Located in Pisa, Italy
Post-Doc at Institute of Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Business Models, intended as formal conceptual representations of how an organization functions, are designed to offer a static perspective of value creation processes. This prevents start-up entrepreneurs from framing the complexity, uncertainty and unpredictability of the business sectors in which they operate, experimenting how their business reacts to strategic changes, and sharing experimentation results with other stakeholders (e.g., potential investors). In a recently published article, together with Federico Cosenz from University of Palermo, we argued that combining conventional Business Model schemas with System Dynamics modelling results in a strategy design tool that may overcome these limitations. The resulting Dynamic Business Models (DBMs) provide useful insights to strategy formulation and business venturing by capturing how critical Business Model elements interact to produce enduring competitive advantages over time.
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