A Swiss research team surveyed the business universe and identified 55 business model patterns. Here’s the full paper. For those familiar with MECE, it’s “CE” if not “ME”…
Some favorites:
1. Digitization — because digital is usually cheaper, easier, faster (examples: Wikipedia, Facebook, Dropbox)
2. Experience Selling — increase value by including a valuable experience with the product (IKEA, Starbucks)
3. From Push-To-Pull — create a flexible value chain that can respond to and customize for a customer need’s (Dell, Zara)
4. Layer Player — find a piece of the value chain that you can do best and monopolize it (eg, TRUSTe, AWS, PayPal)
5. Razor and Blade — I just like the name :), it’s the classic “give away the razor, sell the blades” strategy (Gillette, Kindle, Nestle Nespresso)