Part VII: User-Generated Content
If someone is creating content online, editing it, and publishing it periodically, they are probably in the media site business. They produce content, bundle it, and distribute it. The media industry covers a wide variety of areas like advertising, broadcasting, and networking, news, print and publication, digital, recording, and motion pictures, and each has its […]
Part VI: Mobile Apps
Humanity’s dependency on mobile devices has boosted the need for almost all organizations, private or public, from all sectors to have a presence on our phones and other mobile devices. Therefore, mobile device market penetration is the main factor for the growth of the mobile apps market. This business model can be viewed from 2 […]
Part V: The Cloud Market Group: XaaS
Following customer demand, businesses have found ways to deliver everything as a service (XaaS). In general, these business models are dependent on cloud computing to generate value for their customers. Why? A business model based on the cloud market group provides varying levels of fault tolerance and resilience, the ability to scale up/down to meet […]
Part IV: Omnichannel Marketing for E-Commerce
Omni-channel is an e-commerce strategy that requires linking physical, mobile and web stores so that consumers can shop seamlessly across all channels. It uses multiple channels to reach customers and provide them with an excellent shopping experience. Moreover, it covers all the ways brands and customers interact with each other. It is more of a […]
Part III: Marketplace
A marketplace is a platform where vendors can come together to sell their products or services to a curated customer base. The role of a marketplace owner is to bring together the right vendors and the right customers to drive sales through an exceptional multi-vendor platform – sellers have a place to gain visibility and […]
Part II: E-Commerce
As expressed in the intro of this series, 21st century business models use technology to create new value in business models, customer experiences and the internal capabilities that support their core operations. The term includes both digital-only brands and traditional players that are transforming their businesses with digital technologies. In part I, we introduced general […]
Part I: General Metrics used in 21st Century Business Models
In this article, we will talk about general metrics used in 21st century business models. We will first explain some general metrics applied to almost all of the models, and then we will dig deeper into some of the 21st century models in the 3rd part of this series. We will explain their general value propositions, […]
Understanding 21st Century Business Models: Introduction
We say some companies have 21st Century Business Models for two reasons. Firstly, although tech companies have been around for decades, in this century industries are being disrupted not by technology itself but by companies with certain business models and specific characteristics. Secondly, these are business models born with the internet boom at the beginning […]
M&A in the Agri inputs sector
As in every sector, agriculture company owners and investors often disagree when negotiating the terms of a potential company sale. This has become an issue in the M&A in the Agri inputs sector. Investors may not have specific agriculture sector expertise. Even if they do, they may lack the ability to effectively manage a company’s […]
The search for investors for the sale of your company
Every company has an optimal time to be sold, and it is vital to make an effort to know and be aware of it so as not to regret it later. As advisors, we start working with a company one or two years in advance of a sale. We prepare it to improve its value, […]