I am back at Cass Business School this week taking a leadership elective as an alumni. It felt really good to be back in the lecture theatre and engaging the academic grey matter. The first lecture gave us the opportunity to unpack the differences between management and leadership, which I will cover in my next [...]
Evolving the business models of photographers
I find it almost impossible to take good photos of my children so I thought I would leave it to the professionals and went to see an independent photographer for the first time. I visited a photographer in North London and it was not an experience I would care to repeat anytime soon; the studio [...]
Recommendations to maximise Internet company value
The following recommendations have been drawn from the research targeting a range of stakeholder groups who are involved with publically listed companies. Management looking to maximise valuation should concentrate on growing revenues not cutting costs. While cost cutting may have some effect on market value, the data point to revenue as the dominant driver of [...]
Internet value driver maturity model
Maturity models seem to be all the rage at the moment and as I did not want to be left out I have developed my own maturity model to model the relevance of different value drivers as Internet companies mature. The evidence for this model come from the following trends from my research: Internet companies [...]
Value drivers for Internet business models
Analysing listed Internet companies as one homogenous group there is no doubt that revenue is the strongest predictor for Internet market value. In fact my research showed that the regression between revenue and market value had an R2 as high as 0.93. However an analysis at the disaggregated business model level reveals another story. In [...]
Building a new Internet business model classification framework
After researching the current literature I found no universally accepted method of classifying Internet business models. It was also noted that classification frameworks were out of date and did not accommodate newer business models. Therefore I developed a new classification with the following criteria: It needed to accommodate new businesses such as Facebook and cloud [...]
Classifying Internet business models
There are many business model classifications ranging from observed lists with no consistent classification criteria (e.g. Kotzberg 2001; Applegate 2001b; Eisenmann 2002; Laudon and Traver 2003; Rappa 2006), to a more systematic approach which classifies models using as few as two variables (Timmers 1998; Linder and Cantrell 2000) and as many as four variables (Weill [...]
MBA Thesis – What drives Internet company valuation?
After many months of hard work I have submitted my thesis and can now reflect on the work I have done. My thesis titled What drives Internet company valuation? A business model approach to Internet value drivers was a combination of my passions of business strategy, business models and Internet companies. I will be publishing key parts [...]
Ten steps to setting up a blog in less than 24 hours
I have recently set up a new blog http://www.reversinginjuries.co.uk/ and the process of setting up a blog was very straight forward once you know what the steps are. In the past I would have agonised over every detail and only made the site live after many reviews and iterations. However in keeping with the principles of minimum [...]
Reflections on my final year MBA at Cass business school
Last year I wrote a summary post of the first year of my MBA and all too quickly I have completed my final year at Cass Business School. I had my final elective last month and then an amazing trip to China to learn about their culture and approach to business. China was a fitting end to [...]