Antony Upward
Ontario College of Art And Design, Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab), Department Member
- Edward James Consulting, Ltd., Management Consulting, Department MemberHalmstad University, School of Business, Engineering and Science, Department of Innovation Management, Business Model Innovation group in the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning (CIEL), Department MemberYork University, Faculty of Environmental Studies & Schulich School of Business, Alumnusadd
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30 min talk: Slides only, embedded video and speakers notes sharable by request (this PDF will also be published on conference website http://2019.reporting3.org) In this talk we share our experiences shifting the mind-sets and... more
30 min talk: Slides only, embedded video and speakers notes sharable by request
(this PDF will also be published on conference website http://2019.reporting3.org)
In this talk we share our experiences shifting the mind-sets and changing the behaviours of leaders in Norway with business evolution: a fit-for-the-future strategy program, method and tools.
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(this PDF will also be published on conference website http://2019.reporting3.org)
In this talk we share our experiences shifting the mind-sets and changing the behaviours of leaders in Norway with business evolution: a fit-for-the-future strategy program, method and tools.
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Research Interests: Enterprise Architecture, Ecological Economics, Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Transformational Leadership, Strategy (Business), and 13 moreDesign Thinking (Business), Eco-efficiency, Corporate Strategy, Business Models, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Whole systems thinking and Sustainability, Strong Sustainability practice, Design Strategy, Design Thinking & Business, Business Model Canvas, United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, Flourishing Business Canvas, and UN SDGs
20 min talk: Slides with speakers notes (will also be published on conference website http://2018.reporting3.org) In this talk, made in support of the launch of the Reporting 3.0 New Business Models Blueprint... more
20 min talk: Slides with speakers notes (will also be published on conference website http://2018.reporting3.org)
In this talk, made in support of the launch of the Reporting 3.0 New Business Models Blueprint (https://reporting3.org/publications/), I argue that to realize the benefits of "new" / integral / flourishing / strongly sustainable / future-fit / regenerative business models companies needs methods, tools and practices to design and implement strategies / business models.
Further, in our changing world, to remain financially viable, *all* enterprises' strategies must consider how they define success. I close with an introduction to the six major projects of the members of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group - Future-Fit Business Benchmark, Flourishing Business Canvas, REFOCUS on Sustainability, Lean for Flourishing Startups, Aim2Flourish and Reporting 3.0 (http://forum.SSBMG.com)
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In this talk, made in support of the launch of the Reporting 3.0 New Business Models Blueprint (https://reporting3.org/publications/), I argue that to realize the benefits of "new" / integral / flourishing / strongly sustainable / future-fit / regenerative business models companies needs methods, tools and practices to design and implement strategies / business models.
Further, in our changing world, to remain financially viable, *all* enterprises' strategies must consider how they define success. I close with an introduction to the six major projects of the members of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group - Future-Fit Business Benchmark, Flourishing Business Canvas, REFOCUS on Sustainability, Lean for Flourishing Startups, Aim2Flourish and Reporting 3.0 (http://forum.SSBMG.com)
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Research Interests: Enterprise Architecture, Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Strategy (Business), and 14 moreDesign Thinking (Business), Eco-efficiency, Corporate Strategy, Business Models, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Whole systems thinking and Sustainability, Strong Sustainability practice, Design Strategy, Design Thinking & Business, Business Model Canvas, United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, Flourishing Business Canvas, and UN SDGs
A talk: Slides with speakers notes + link to video recording (see links above). In this talk I argue that increasingly, in our our changing world, to remain financially viable *all* enterprises must consider how they define success. I... more
A talk: Slides with speakers notes + link to video recording (see links above).
In this talk I argue that increasingly, in our our changing world, to remain financially viable *all* enterprises must consider how they define success. I explore current, emerging and necessary future definitions of enterprise success informed by the latest trans-disciplinary systems-thinking science. I close with a call to action.
In the discussion we explore the need for a global movement towards flourishing #Movement4Flourishing - focusing on establishing the UN Flourishing Goals to succeed the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.
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In this talk I argue that increasingly, in our our changing world, to remain financially viable *all* enterprises must consider how they define success. I explore current, emerging and necessary future definitions of enterprise success informed by the latest trans-disciplinary systems-thinking science. I close with a call to action.
In the discussion we explore the need for a global movement towards flourishing #Movement4Flourishing - focusing on establishing the UN Flourishing Goals to succeed the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.
(Text in grey, and slides with yellow square bottom right were not presented; a 20 minuite "Ted Talk" version is also available upon request)
Research Interests: Enterprise Architecture, Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking (Business), Eco-efficiency, and 9 moreBusiness Models, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Strong Sustainability practice, Business Model Canvas, United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, Flourishing Business Canvas, and UN SDGs
A keynote talk: I was asked by the organizing committee to attempt to be provocative - after all doing anything "new", like "new business models", implies we will need to stretch ourselves In this light I introduce the work of the... more
A keynote talk: I was asked by the organizing committee to attempt to be provocative - after all doing anything "new", like "new business models", implies we will need to stretch ourselves
In this light I introduce the work of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group whose work applies a primarily design science rather than a descriptive science epistemology.
In our work we undertake systemic-design research...and this approach requires us to be explicit about the normative – a scary subject for many.
In my talk I argue that this is a vital aspect of all research into new business and propose some approaches to how researchers *and* practitioners can proceed with confidence
(Text in grey, and slides with yellow square bottom right were not presented at the conference. A longer version of this talk including more about design science vs. descriptive science and additional details on successful business models was presented at Halmstad University, Sweden, June 1, 2017 and is available on request)
In this light I introduce the work of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group whose work applies a primarily design science rather than a descriptive science epistemology.
In our work we undertake systemic-design research...and this approach requires us to be explicit about the normative – a scary subject for many.
In my talk I argue that this is a vital aspect of all research into new business and propose some approaches to how researchers *and* practitioners can proceed with confidence
(Text in grey, and slides with yellow square bottom right were not presented at the conference. A longer version of this talk including more about design science vs. descriptive science and additional details on successful business models was presented at Halmstad University, Sweden, June 1, 2017 and is available on request)
Research Interests: Enterprise Architecture, Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking (Business), Eco-efficiency, and 9 moreBusiness Models, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Strong Sustainability practice, Business Model Canvas, United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, Flourishing Business Canvas, and UN SDGs
A workshop featuring a case study using the Flourishing Business Canvas, used to explore the business model of Redwood Classics - an innovative apparel company in Toronto, Canada.
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The global launch event of the Flourishing Enterprise Innovation Toolkit, including workshops featuring version 2.0 of the Flourishing Business Canvas.
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(To read this thesis click "URL hdl.handle.net" at top of this entry) An ontology describing the constructs and their inter-relationships for business models has recently been built and evaluated: the Business Model Ontology (BMO). This... more
(To read this thesis click "URL hdl.handle.net" at top of this entry)
An ontology describing the constructs and their inter-relationships for business models has recently been built and evaluated: the Business Model Ontology (BMO). This ontology has been used to conceptually power a popular practitioner visual design tool: the Business Model Canvas (BMC).
However, implicitly these works assume that designers of business models all have a singular normative goal: the creation of businesses that are financially profitable. These works perpetuate beliefs and businesses that do not create outcomes aligned with current natural and social science knowledge about long term individual human, societal and ecological flourishing, i.e. outcomes are not strongly sustainable. This limits the applicability and utility of these works.
This exploratory research starts to overcome these limitations: creating knowledge of what is required of businesses for strongly sustainable outcomes to emerge and helping business model designers efficiently create high quality (reliable, consistent, effective) strongly sustainable business models.
Based on criticism and review, this research project extends the BMO artefact to enable the description all the constructs and their inter-relationships related to a strongly sustainable business model. This results in the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology (SSBMO). To help evaluate the SSBMO a practitioner visual design tool is also developed: the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SSBMC).
Ontological engineering (from Artificial Intelligence), Design Science and Systems Thinking methodological approaches were combined in a novel manner to create the Systemic Design Science approach used to build and evaluate the SSBMO. Comparative analysis, interviews and case study techniques were used to evaluate the utility of the designed artefacts.
Formal 3rd party evaluation with 7 experts and 2 case study companies resulted in validation of the overall approaches used and the utility of the SSBMO. A number of opportunities for improvement, as well as areas for future work, are identified.
This thesis includes a number of supplementary graphics included in separate (electronic) files. See “List of Supplementary Materials” for details.
[Since this research was completed, the practitioner visual design tool (the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Canvas) that is conceptually "powered by" the the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology, has been further refined to become the Flourishing Business Canvas - see www.FlourishingBusiness.org for the most recent practice and developments].
An ontology describing the constructs and their inter-relationships for business models has recently been built and evaluated: the Business Model Ontology (BMO). This ontology has been used to conceptually power a popular practitioner visual design tool: the Business Model Canvas (BMC).
However, implicitly these works assume that designers of business models all have a singular normative goal: the creation of businesses that are financially profitable. These works perpetuate beliefs and businesses that do not create outcomes aligned with current natural and social science knowledge about long term individual human, societal and ecological flourishing, i.e. outcomes are not strongly sustainable. This limits the applicability and utility of these works.
This exploratory research starts to overcome these limitations: creating knowledge of what is required of businesses for strongly sustainable outcomes to emerge and helping business model designers efficiently create high quality (reliable, consistent, effective) strongly sustainable business models.
Based on criticism and review, this research project extends the BMO artefact to enable the description all the constructs and their inter-relationships related to a strongly sustainable business model. This results in the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology (SSBMO). To help evaluate the SSBMO a practitioner visual design tool is also developed: the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SSBMC).
Ontological engineering (from Artificial Intelligence), Design Science and Systems Thinking methodological approaches were combined in a novel manner to create the Systemic Design Science approach used to build and evaluate the SSBMO. Comparative analysis, interviews and case study techniques were used to evaluate the utility of the designed artefacts.
Formal 3rd party evaluation with 7 experts and 2 case study companies resulted in validation of the overall approaches used and the utility of the SSBMO. A number of opportunities for improvement, as well as areas for future work, are identified.
This thesis includes a number of supplementary graphics included in separate (electronic) files. See “List of Supplementary Materials” for details.
[Since this research was completed, the practitioner visual design tool (the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Canvas) that is conceptually "powered by" the the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology, has been further refined to become the Flourishing Business Canvas - see www.FlourishingBusiness.org for the most recent practice and developments].
Research Interests: Ontology, Design Science, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecosystem Services, Design for Social Innovation, and 40 moreEcological Design, Sustainable Development, Collaboration, Ontology (Computer Science), Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Sustainable Business, Corporate Sustainability, Design Innovation, Resilience (Sustainability), Environmental Sustainability, Strategy (Business), Sustainable Design, Ontology Engineering, Visual Design, Business Plan, Business Models, Reflexive Modernisation, Business architecture, enterprise Ontology, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Creating Shared Value, Socially responsible design, Human flourishing, Business modelling, Ontologies, Knowledge representation, Semantic web, Cloud computing, Ontology based data access, Knowlede management, Strong Sustainability practice, Business Model Canvas, Design for Social Impact, Impact Investment, Socially Responsible Investment, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability, Social Entrepreneruship, Socially Responsible Consumption, Tri-Profit, Tri-Profitability, Flourishing Enterprises, Flourishing Business, and Future Fit Business
Understanding a project's unintended consequences can boost long-term infrastructure effectiveness and profitability. Business models are a key approach to creating more effective and profitable opportunities.
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Learnings, musing, observations and in the moment conclusions - a trail led by my disassociative brain!
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An exploration of what achieving flourishing and strong sustainability means for human enterprises of all kinds - businesses, NGOs, governments
Research Interests: Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Innovation and Creativity (Business), Business Models, Business Innovation, Business Model Innovation, and 7 moreFlourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Business modelling, Weak Sustainability, Strong Sustainability practice, and Sustainability
Third post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This blog post discusses one aspect of my thesis... more
Third post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This blog post discusses one aspect of my thesis (https://www.academia.edu/5392357): If the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology (SSBMO) and the canvas it “powers” (the SSBMC, subsequently the Flourishing Business Canvas) asks the right questions of business model designers who are trying to create strongly sustainable business model designs… What, based on the same natural and social science literature of strong sustainability used to identify the questions asked by the SSBMO, are good answers to those questions?
This blog post discusses one aspect of my thesis (https://www.academia.edu/5392357): If the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Ontology (SSBMO) and the canvas it “powers” (the SSBMC, subsequently the Flourishing Business Canvas) asks the right questions of business model designers who are trying to create strongly sustainable business model designs… What, based on the same natural and social science literature of strong sustainability used to identify the questions asked by the SSBMO, are good answers to those questions?
Research Interests: Action Research, Systems Thinking, Ontology (Computer Science), Ontology Development, Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), and 17 moreSocial Ontology, Resilience (Sustainability), Innovation and Creativity (Business), Ontology Engineering, Visual Design, Design Tools, Business Models, Business Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Business modelling, Weak Sustainability, Strong Sustainability practice, Business Model Canvas, and Design Toolkits
Second post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This blog post is about one part of my thesis: the... more
Second post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This blog post is about one part of my thesis: the literature review (full thesis here: https://www.academia.edu/5392357/)
This blog post is about one part of my thesis: the literature review (full thesis here: https://www.academia.edu/5392357/)
Research Interests: Systems Thinking, Ontology (Computer Science), Ontology Development, Sustainability (Organisational Strategy), Social Ontology, and 16 moreResilience (Sustainability), Innovation and Creativity (Business), Innovation Management (Business), Ontology Engineering, Visual Design, Design Tools, Business Models, Business Model Innovation, Flourishing, Strong Sustainability, Human flourishing, Business modelling, Weak Sustainability, Strong Sustainability practice, Business Model Canvas, and Design Toolkits
A first post in the blog for the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD University's Strategic Innovation Lab in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The SSBMG group’s convener, Dr. Nabil Harfoush,... more
A first post in the blog for the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD University's Strategic Innovation Lab in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The SSBMG group’s convener, Dr. Nabil Harfoush, has asked me, as a co-founder of the SSBMG and the originator of the term “Strongly Sustainable Business Model”, to provide my perspective on this exciting new field of practice and research.