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There is a great deal of hype about distributed generation disrupting the traditional utility business model, but what will really happen? Is this an evolution or a revolution in the utility business? This presentation explores what utilities should do now strategically, in the regulatory space, and in public policy advocacy.
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Utilities and Distributed Resources: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb!
- Transforming the Utility Business Model
- December 8, 2014
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ? Alan Kay
- Whos got the V?
What Is a Business Model? Southwest Example
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
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- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Apparel & Accessories
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
Shoes
- Dry Goods, Auto Parts & Accessories
- Digital Media
- Office Supplies, Fabric, Motorcycle & ATV, Arts & Accessories
- Beauty
- Physical Media
- Product Evolution
- Auctions & zShops
- Online Book Retailing
- Marketplace
- Partnerships & Logistics Services
- E-commerce Platform/ Web Services
- eBooks/Kindle
- Amazon at its roots is built to transform. When it finds opportunities to serve new customers, or existing customers in new ways, it conceives and builds new business models to exploit them. Amazon has the unique ability to launch and run entirely new types of businesses while simultaneously extracting value from existing businesses. BusinessWeek
- Sources: http://www.slideshare.net/Vlacke/amazon-business-model# http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2010/id20100412_520351.htm
- Business Model Evolution
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
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- Product Evolution
- Founded based on Jeff Bezos regret minimization framework Intentional slow growth model, without expecting profit for up to five years Sell all, carry few combined with drop shipping maintained low stock, high reliance on wholesalers and publishers for order fulfillment Model allowed for survival through the dot-com bubble burst
- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
Shoes
- Dry Goods, Auto Parts & Accessories
- Digital Media
- Office Supplies, Fabric, Motorcycle & ATV, Arts & Accessories
- Beauty
- Physical Media
- Auctions & zShops
- Online Book Retailing
- Marketplace
- Partnerships & Logistics Services
- E-commerce Platform/ Web Services
- eBooks/Kindle
- Business Model Evolution
- Sources: http://www.slideshare.net/Vlacke/amazon-business-model# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/online-business-revenue-models/amazon-case-study/
- Apparel & Accessories
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
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- Product Evolution
- Amazon devised a new value proposition, offering a commission-based brokerage service to buyers and sellers of used books
- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
Shoes
- Dry Goods, Auto Parts & Accessories
- Digital Media
- Office Supplies, Fabric, Motorcycle & ATV, Arts & Accessories
- Beauty
- Physical Media
- Auctions & zShops
- Online Book Retailing
- Marketplace
- Partnerships & Logistics Services
- E-commerce Platform/ Web Services
- eBooks/Kindle
- Sources: http://www.slideshare.net/Vlacke/amazon-business-model# http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/online-business-revenue-models/amazon-case-study/
- Business Model Evolution
- Apparel & Accessories
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
-
- Product Evolution
- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
Shoes
- Dry Goods, Auto Parts & Accessories
- Digital Media
- Office Supplies, Fabric, Motorcycle & ATV, Arts & Accessories
- Beauty
- Physical Media
- Auctions & zShops
- Online Book Retailing
- Marketplace
- Partnerships & Logistics Services
- E-commerce Platform/ Web Services
- eBooks/Kindle
- Sources: http://www.slideshare.net/Vlacke/amazon-business-model# http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2010/id20100412_520351.htm
- Business Model Evolution
- Apparel & Accessories
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
-
- Product Evolution
- Sources: http://www.slideshare.net/Vlacke/amazon-business-model# http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/online-business-revenue-models/amazon-case-study/ http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/amazon-constantly-audits-its-business-model/
- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
Shoes
- Dry Goods, Auto Parts & Accessories
- Digital Media
- Office Supplies, Fabric, Motorcycle & ATV, Arts & Accessories
- Beauty
- Physical Media
- Auctions & zShops
- Online Book Retailing
- Marketplace
- Partnerships & Logistics Services
- E-commerce Platform/ Web Services
- eBooks/Kindle
- Business Model Evolution
- Apparel & Accessories
Amazon Product and Business Model Evolution
-
- Product Evolution
- Founded
- Electronics, Toys, Baby, Tools and HW
- Home & Garden
- Sports & Outdoors, Jewelry and Watches, Health & Personal Care
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