Business development

Business development is the ability to optimize and develop the company’s business foundation. Both internally (coworkers, processes, structures) and externally (customers, suppliers, partners).

Storytelling: How stories become business

VIDEO | In an ever-changing world, where the old rules of marketing no longer apply, cultural understanding and identity is the icebreaker that makes you attractive. We need to learn the cultural codes and play accordingly, and we need to understand the core of our own business and communicate it through stories that touches people’s hearts, according to Jim Lyngvild. Because the good story is far more important than the actual product.

You are only four questions from a good business idea

There are many ways to generate ideas. But if you’re completely lost, or if you have too many ideas, then keep reading as we introduce a fast way to find an idea that you can begin testing and give a final validation within an hour.

Adhocracy – make your company more agile

**Thinkers50** Companies want to react faster, improve and be just as agile as all the IT startups we hear about. For many, it’s not just a desire it’s an urgent need. If we want to keep up these days we have to develop ourselves all the time.

From Julian Birkinshaw & Jonas Riderstralle

**Thinkers50** Julian Birkinshaw is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School and has written twelve books. He is a Thinkers50 ranked thinker. Jonas Riderstralle is co-author of the international bestsellers Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism. He has been included in the Thinkers50 on six occasions.

Entrepreneurship: 10 steps to success

In this article we present 10 steps that will guide you through the entrepreneurial process; from great idea to launch. The steps are a mixture of tangible action areas and important strategic approaches.

4 concepts that allow you to turn a good company into a great one

Jim Collins, author of ‘Good to Great', 2011, has examined 1435 good companies, isolated the best 11 and investigated how they have gone from good to great companies. Det er der kommet fire interessante koncepter ud af. This has produced four interesting concepts

Market mapping

Use market mapping to analyze your competitors, identify holes in your market or to segment your customers.

Jonathan Løw on entrepreneurship, disruption and innovation

VIDEO | In this video series serial entrepreneur Jonathan Løw shares why he thinks your ability to listen louder and accelerate your learning is decisive for your ability to innovate, disrupt and develop new business ideas.

How established companies handle digital disruption

TOOL | Disruption is a separate challenge for established companies. Contrary to startup companies established companies already have a current business to tend to, and this means that if they bet on disruption (many have to) they will literally have to disrupt their own current business. This is naturally a difficult balancing act.

Create continual growth using the right strategy and an efficient infrastructure

TOOL | If you've ever been part of a company with the ambition of growing bigger, then you've probably also experienced that creating and especially maintaining growth is rarely easy.

The Business Model Canvas

THEME | A good business model can help develop your company by rethinking the models you are currently operating from. Business Model Canvas is a tool useful for describing business models, and it helps you examine different ways from which your business can generate bottom line results.

Plan the upcoming year with an annual wheel

TOOL | Do you experience difficulties maintaining an overview of the events in your company in the upcoming year? Use a wheel to plan your annual cycle.

Blue Ocean Strategy

TEMPLATE | A strategy where you target an unexplored blue market, rather than trying to cope with the fierce competition and your competitors in the red market.

Business Model Generation

TEMPLATE| Download a presentation of Business Model Generation.

Business Model Canvas (1/3)

VIDEO | The canvas helps you to systematically create different business scenarios. It covers the entire business and keeps you focussed on the fact that your idea must create income.

Licence to THRILL (1/3)

VIDEO | Why do some teams outperform others under similar conditions? Which tools, methods an mental abilities do the best teams have? The answer can, acording to Karsten Kock co-creater of the Licence to Thrill method, constitute of Thrill factor.

How to create a convincing business case

TOOL | A business case can be created in many different ways. From an informal oral presentation to a formal document containing paragraphs and extensive calculations. Here we present a version that is located somewhere in the middle.

Redefine your leadership position with Holacracy

TOOL | How an underrated measuring instrument, the registration of tension and autonomous cells inspired a new way of organizing companies.

Business process mapping

TOOL | There are several advantages to gain from using business process mapping. One of the most important is that the method can create a view of your different processes and thereby for instance reduce waste and expenses or streamline workflows.

Business Development 2.0

TOOL | Describe and create an overview of your company’s business development and establish focus on future activities. Download a PowerPoint template of the model.

Business Development 2.0 (1/3)

VIDEO | The Business Development 2.0 model is used to describe any Company's development and to give a clear picture of the company's development and future focus.

Partnerships (1/2)

VIDEO | In these videos Jesper Bang Andersen talks about partnerships, how to get started and which pitfalls to avoid.

Use the 3-stage rocket of Purpose-Way-Impact for a clearer strategic foundation

TOOL | Do you and your colleagues find it hard to remember your mission, vision and values, then here’s a new way of dealing with it. A method that’s easier to remember, more authentic and easier to use on a daily basis.

Circular economy: How business can help reach climate goals

Circular economy includes a products entire life cycle to give it the smallest influence on the environment. Preferably a negative influence. While the production process must factor in environmental concerns, another of the core point of circular economy is that it must also be financially viable for companies.