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BUSINESS UNMODELLING

The goal of Business Unmodelling is simple. We ask, “what are the real drivers of the performance for a business? And how do they change?” To get to the answer we will dissect businesses, uncover their building blocks and map some of the important shifts that have an impact on how these building blocks are assembled. In that way we reverse-engineer businesses, to help you better engineer yours.

So let's dissect businesses

Intangible Economics
Positioning & Success Factors
Trends & Business Transformation
Why Business Unmodelling?

Why Business Unmodelling?

We hear a lot about Business Models these days. Building businesses has become a spectator sport. As it is required for a proper sport, everyone in the audience has an opinion.

Much of it is seductively simple. “Hey what’s your business model?” “His business model is E-commerce.” “They are the Facebook of Industry X”. “Have you already heard about the next Google?”.

The term “business model” has become a kind of silver bullet to all of our challenges. Some of it comes with three-step methodologies, packaged into easy-to-digest block diagrams with repeating taglines. And sometimes we even come across “movements” that we can join.

But if it’s really that simple, why do we need that much advice? Amazon for example lists 40.000 results for the term “business model”. Then there are another 10.000 results for ‘design thinking’.

So what’s the problem? The problem is, we can’t boil a complex business down into one word or a checklist. Neither is a great idea or definition sufficient to build a profitable and sustainable business.

Each business is unique and each business has different drivers of success. If we don’t understand these drivers, we will end up comparing apples with oranges. To have an impact in reality, any great idea needs to work within the constraints of the specific environment the business operates in.

This is because essentially, businesses are made up of constraints. Those constraints are for example customers needs, our available resources, our suppliers, competitors or available technologies. The task of the entrepreneur is to find solutions to problems within these constraints.


Let’s say we come across an article that tells us what made Apple successful. What this article really is telling us is what made Apple successful under those particular circumstances. To understand whether there are any lessons to be learned for our business, we first need to be sure to understand what our business is about, and what constraints we operate in.

This is why here we take a step back to dissect what makes businesses successful. We explore the various building blocks, and we highlight the ones are have the biggest impact for a particular business. And of course we show how they change.

We ask, “what are the real drivers of the performance for a business?“

In other words we unmodel the business.

Intangible Economics

Enter this Pogramme to uncover how the Business Environment has shifted from Competitive Advantage to Intangible Economics

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Requiem for the Economic Moat: The Former Strengths of Industrial Age Companies

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Intangible Success Factors of Today

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Supreme Streetwear and the Business of Selling the Intangible. What Drives Value?

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Did 2020 change the way you work and live? Let’s chat then:

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THE NEXT BIG PLATFORM: from surrogate to social life extension?

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The In-Venues of the Online Space

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From the New Normal to the New Fluid: Constant Redefinition

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‘Disruption’ talk fails to disrupt the old ways of doing things? Talk about ‘New Markets’ instead

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How to Locate the Next Growth Markets: Spotting the Soft Factors

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Power Speaking Truth to Power

Read about identifying the strengths of businesses, about value propositions, and sources of competitive advantage in these articles and posts.

Positioning

and Identifying Success Factors

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When Life Meets Digital: The Hybrid Future of Work, Retail and Events in 2021. Lessons from Web Summit

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Did 2020 change the way you work and live? Let’s chat then:

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THE NEXT BIG PLATFORM: from surrogate to social life extension?

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The In-Venues of the Online Space

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From the New Normal to the New Fluid: Constant Redefinition

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‘Disruption’ talk fails to disrupt the old ways of doing things? Talk about ‘New Markets’ instead

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Get an MBA If You Want to Get Ahead in Business. Skip It If You Want Your Business to Get Ahead.

Article-Growthmkts

How to Locate the Next Growth Markets: Spotting the Soft Factors

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Power Speaking Truth to Power

Business Transformation and Opportunities
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What does the future provide us with and how do businesses adapt and transform

EYEBALL ECONOMICS - coming 15 Feb 2021

Eyeball Economics (coming 15.2.2021)

INTANGIBLE ECONOMICS - coming 22 Dec

Lifecycle Economomics (coming 15.05.2021)

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About Clarintelligence

Clarintelligence is a platform that helps executives develop strategies and adjust their businesses to an ever changing world.

We start by dissecting the components that make up profitable and sustainable business models and we provide insights into how the success factors of businesses are changing in our dynamic environment.

We then move on to helping businesses develop the right strategic options based on these insights.

Our main focus is on helping businesses identify and focus on those elements that have the biggest impact on a businesses’ future, help them find the X-Factor.


"The name of the bird tells you nothing. You need to talk about the feathers”

Richard Feynman


Clarintelligence has pre-launched with free insight-based content. The official launch of our full offering is scheduled for early 2021.


Who We Are

Martin Hoffmann

The company was founded by private equity professional turned founder Martin Hoffmann, drawing on his long-time experience as private equity professional. Working with a variety of businesses from a board level perspective provided him with unique insights into the patterns of success factors of businesses. Working with companies across industries also enabled him to draw connections between different fields. Now he make this experience available through Clarintelligence.

Martin has contributed to Entrepreneur Magazine and Equities Magazine.

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