The brains behind the world-renowned Business Model Canvas – instrumental in helping new businesses put strategy into practice.
Ranked #4 in 2021.
Previous positions:
#4 (2019), #7 (2017) and #15 (2015)
Winners of the Thinkers50 2015 Strategy Award, for inventing the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas.
Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 2021 Strategy Award with Fred Etiemble & Alan Smith.
Osterwalder and Pigneur created the Business Model Canvas, an innovative strategy management and entrepreneurial tool. By visualising all the building blocs of starting a business, the canvas is used to describe, design, challenge, and pivot a business model. They followed up with the Value Proposition Canvas, a tool that helps to position a product or service around customer values and needs.
Osterwalder gained his PhD at the University of Lausanne under Yves Pigneur, where Pigneur is a computer scientist and professor of management information systems. Pigneur has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, HEC Montréal, Georgia State University, and the University of British Columbia.
The Invincible Company (with Alan Smith, Wiley 2020); Testing Business Ideas (David J. Bland & Alex Osterwalder, Wiley, 2019); Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Wiley, 2014); Business Model You: A One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career (Wiley, 2012); Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Gamechangers and Challengers (Wiley, 2010).
“The business model canvas is the most influential management tool of the past two decades. Period.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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The Studio
Highfield Lane
Wargrave RG10 8PZ
United Kingdom
Thinkers50 Limited
The Studio
Highfield Lane
Wargrave RG10 8PZ
United Kingdom
