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SNUx: 4th Industrial Revolution & New Business Model
Technology enablers of 4th industrial revolution (4IR) such as IoT, cloud, big data analytics, 3D printing and blockchain technologies keep on making business environment complex and fast-changing. Business model (BM) perspective and its development capability allow agile response and industry leadership. In this class, 4IR, BM and impact of 4IR on BM along with relevant theories of innovation and entrepreneurship are discussed.
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8 weeks at 1-2 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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About SNUx: 4th Industrial Revolution & New Business Model
We are in the middle of burgeoning 4th industrial revolution (4IR) characterized by unprecedented scale, scope and complexity and its velocity and depth are still not fully understood. Emergence of new business models (BM) and demise of incumbents, as well as reconfiguration of production, demand, logistics and delivery implicates new paradigms over all industries. Particularly, recent turmoils in global economy due to Pandemic have resulted in vastly accelerated evolution and acceptance of 4IR.
IoT, cloud computing, big data analytics, A.I., 3D printing, autonomous electric vehicles and blockchain technologies are changing the business environments which results in many new opportunities and threats. In this environment, it is imperative to understand and respond to impacts of these changes on BM’s for corporate survival and sustainability.
In this class, we overview technology enablers and paradigm shifts of 4IR and characterize their impacts on corporate BM. State-of-the-art developments in innovation and entrepreneurship theories pertaining to the topic are curated and introduced, with a focal treatment of common themes such as customer focus, importance of platform and ecosystem strategy, value creation via evolutionary BM development towards Product-Service System (PSS) and role of organizational commitment and consensus. Such insights shall be useful both for entrepreneurs preparing for innovative new businesses and for incumbent enterprises leading evolutionary and revolutionary innovations.
What You Will Learn?
- - Background and concept of 4th industrial revolution.
- - Concept of business model.
- - Tools for business model development – Business model canvas, value proposition canvas, value proposition reconfiguration, decoupling.
- - Importance and role of business model in the context of technology innovation.
- - Platform Ecosystem Strategy.
- - Servitization & Product-Service System.
- - Lean startup.
- - Impacts of IoT, cloud, big data analytics, 3D printing and blockchain technologies on business model.
- - Business model perspectives on autonomous electric vehicle industry.