Business Model Innovation and Sustainable Strategy
A business model describes the logic by which an organization creates, distributes and captures value (Osterwalder A., Pigneur Y, Creating Business Models, Edizioni LSWR, Milan 2019), creators of the Business Model Canvas).
A sustainable business model is one that welcomes and plans the three dimensions of sustainability (Environment – Social – Governance) in its business model, and balances them with other strategic corporate objectives.
We work proactively with companies to help them rethink their strategic approach to sustainability with respect to environmental and social issues within the organizational framework. Integrating sustainability into the business model ultimately means generating greater value with and for everyone.
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Business Model Innovation and Sustainable Strategy according to Sapiens
“Set of organizational and strategic solutions through which the company acquires a competitive advantage”.
“The company questions the very purpose of its actions and what the true value generated is. It therefore rethinks how to orient itself towards sustainability, understood here as recognition of its social role and its shared value”.
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL & VALUE PROPOSITION DESIGN
The Sustainable Business Model is a strategic Business Design tool that uses visual language to create and develop innovative business models.
The use of a dashboard of graphical frameworks (representative of the constituent elements of the company) allows to have a clear and precise vision of the state of the business, to organize ideas in a schematic way and to guide the organization through a common strategy, creating a shared language and a wide diffusion of information.
We seek to understand how value from the company can be co-generated through stakeholder interaction and distributed equitably.
Only when the value proposition (Value Proposition Design) translates into a commitment to create it with and for its stakeholders (suppliers, customers, society) do the other functions orient themselves towards it, providing the company with a sustainable business model.
CO-OPETITION Strategy
Ecosystems are complex systems where cooperation allows living systems to thrive more than mere competition.
The market scenario where companies operate instead is based on competition, on distributive inequality, on unequal access to resources; wrong interpretation according to Sapiens.
Strengthened by this awareness, we accompany companies in thinking, designing and implementing strategies that can draw the maximum competitive advantage from the complexity of interactions with stakeholders, and can successfully integrate cooperation with competition using a precise, sustainable and systematic operating model.
DESIGN THINKING
Codified around the 2000s in California, at Stanford University, Design Thinking “is a problem solving methodology, which develops through a process centered on the person and on the resolution of complex problems, with the aim of generating value through innovative solutions.
It can be applied to different scenarios: from the ideation of a startup to the redefinition of business processes, up to the creation of a product or service.
At Sapiens, we adopt the potential of this methodology to explore the value opportunities that can emerge in the corporate transition towards sustainability.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The circular economy is a new way of thinking about the system of creation and design of the business model, conceived to make the materials used in production processes repairable, reusable and recyclable, giving them new life in another system of production and consumption.
We support companies in the evolution of their business model with the aim of identifying, enhancing and innovating according to circularity models, creating new value from the waste and refuse produced.
Advantages
It allows you to consider and plan social and environmental dimensions in your entrepreneurial vision and business model.
It gives concreteness to intentions, providing instructions to move from theory to practice in the creation and application of circular business models.
It offers entrepreneurs the technical tools and operational methods to be able to realize their vision and the desire for change towards sustainability.
Why Innovate your Business Model by Developing a Sustainable Strategy with Sapiens
We are the predator species that has brought nature and the ecosystem to its knees.
Our influence on the Earth is so profound that it has generated great mutations that today we refer to as the Anthropocene. Changes that, for the first time in the history of the Earth, have not been originated by natural phenomena but by a living species, ours.
However, quoting Jeremy Rifkin we are also aware that ” our species is the great wanderer of the world, in search of something more than daily subsistence, a meaning to give to life”.
For these reasons, we at Sapiens strongly believe in change and in companies that want to be promoters of this evolution.
We are the predatory species, but also potentially the agents of possible recovery from this state: we count on the diffusion of knowledge, on scientific and technological research, on institutions, on companies – the true engines of the economy – for the construction of new sustainable business models.
Finally, because sharing this challenge with our customers is the real co-created value we want to generate in our organization.