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Alexander Osterwalder is the Co-Founder of Strategyzer and author of, \u201cBusiness Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers\u201d and \u201cBusiness Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career.\u201d\xa0Osterwalder gives his recommendations on what people should do when writing business plans. He shares his thoughts on whether entrepreneurs should just skip writing business plans and just \u201cdo\u201d instead.

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He then discusses how much time one should spend on planning vs operating a business.

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Dr. Alexander Osterwalder works as an independent author, speaker and advisor with a particular focus on business model innovation, strategic management and management innovation. He regularly performs keynote speeches and workshops on the topic of business model innovation in companies, in business schools and at conferences around the world.

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Besides his independent activities he is partner at Arvetica, a consulting boutique focusing on the private banking and wealth management industry. His role includes business development and the management of a peer knowledge exchange platform for senior executives in private banking. The platform aims at helping senior executives and private banking professionals understand the changing industry landscape, notably from other leading personalities, such as CEOs of top Swiss and international banks.

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Before that Dr. Osterwalder founded and ran\xa0BusinessModelDesign.com, a consulting boutique active in strategy consulting with a focus on business model innovation. He also helped develop and implement the strategy and business concept of a globally active not for profit network called The Constellation for over one year in Thailand. The Constellation brought knowledge management methods from the private sector (particularly BP) to the health sector to better respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

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Dr. Osterwalder has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he worked as a teaching and research assistant and published extensively. He also developed and taught a seminar on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).

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Previously, he was active as an entrepreneur in the banking sector and as an online business journalist for BILANZ. He is an inaugural member of the Open World Initiative (OWI) of the Evian Group at IMD, Switzerland.

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Visit Strategyzer at\xa0www.Strategyzer.com.

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Learn more about Osterwalder\u2019s business tips at\xa0www.businessmodelgeneration.com\xa0andwww.businessmodelalchemist.com.\xa0

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Find out more about Alex Osterwalder at\xa0www.alexosterwalder.com.