The presentation is all about the need for innovative business models in print as well as online for the so-called content industry like newspaper. A mere transformation of the classical print model to online does not work since the revenue sources did not follow and the approach to serve all users with a broad spectrum of content does not work on the web since longtail publishers will always beat you on certain topics.
Who says paper is dead? Business model innovation in the media industry
1. „ Who says paper is
dead? “
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2. 8 theses
on the transformation of the
MEDIA
INDUSTRY
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3. thesis
1. Tradition is not a
business model
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4. The deep fall of the music (media)
industry
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5. „ Remember the times! How
emotional were the LPs’
covers!“
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6. The bigger the capacity became, the less emotion was attached to the
medium itself, ….…
Schallplatte Musik CD iPod Shuffle
1000 min
45 min 74 min
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7. …and the worse did the record industry perform.
Sales record industry worldwide
in bn $ (1999-2007)
41 40 40
40 37
34 35
33
32
30
30
20
10
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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8. Always the others, in particular their best customers were guilty for the
drastic decline
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9. The industry responed with MOTS or More-of-the-Same. More records
and fighting the customers
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11. New customers needs emerge:
That‘s how my harddrive looks
like
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12. The case of the daily newspaper
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13. A little quiz
What is this?
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14. 10.000 mio. USD classified market is evapurated by Craigslist with just
sales of 100 Mio.
10.000 Mio. USD 100 Mio. USD
decline in classifieds turnover Craigslist
2000-2008
Source: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090610/another-way-to-describe-the-
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15. „ Tell me the difference.“
“
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16. „ The Online version is
everything what the print
is plus a lot more
multimedia content plus
interactivity plus blogs.“
“
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17. „ But did the revenue
sources follow you
online?“
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18. „ The subscribers
turned their back
on you. As did the
classifieds :-(“
“
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19. „ Not really your
day, dear media
industry. Both of
your business
models are dated.
Sorry!“
“
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20. thesis
2. There is no such thing as
a media industry. Every
industry is special and
faces different challenges
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21. *from a business point
„ What is a
newspaper?* “
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22. „ I buy a newspaper for news,
comments and background
stories!“
“
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23. „ With the WSJ I can reach 30%
of the decision makers! “
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24. „ I buy the paper since I
am looking for a job.“
“
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25. thesis
3. Traditional print is not
one business model but
three, kept together by
paper
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27. thesis
4. The 1-to-1 transfer of the
print business model on
the web does not work
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28. „ How can I react to the
changes? “
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29. „ Who says paper is
dead? “
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30. „ Who says print is
dead? “
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31. „ Print is not dead. Important
is the right innovative
business model like of The
Economist!“ “
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32. „ Paper is in many aspects a much
better carrier medium than online.
Why don‘t we design business
models that use these advantages!“ “
Quelle: flickr.com/photos/marcelgermain/2272162061
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33. thesis
5. The medium shapes the
message. Understand the
ideosyncracies of each
media
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34. „ We have all the figures
about our readers!““
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35. thesis
6. Start with customer
insights. Which job do
you solve for your
customer?
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36. „ Greatest innovation in newspapers
in the last 20 years:
The „commuters“ free papers!““
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37. thesis
7. Every medium needs a
business models that
builds on the medium‘s
strengths and that solves
a job for the customer
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38. thesis
8. Only business model
innovation in print AND
online will allow the
publishers to survive.
Tradition is NOT a
business model!
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40. Be BRAVE,
really YES, you can!
.
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41. How shall I start?
UNDERSTAND
YOUR BUSINESS
by using the
BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
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42. What business are we in? Our business model
Value architecture Value Proposition/ customer
offer distribution architecture customers
What is our offering? How do we reach our Who are our
customers? customers?
What job do we solve
for our customers?
value chain
What are our value
creating steps? value proposition
customer
activity 1 activity 2 activity 3 activity 4
What is our value activity
What value do we
chain?
create for our
customers?
core capabilities partner What value do we
What are the core Which partners do we create for our
capabilities we need? need? partners?
Revenue model cost structure sources of revenue
Cost structure is defined by With what do we earn
the value architecture money?
culture/ values leadership style relationship style values
What leadership style How do we interact What values do we
do we have? with each other and the pursue?
customer?