Part 2 - A History of Business Model Transformation
3. Before the Grid "The Private Power Plant" - Pre-1882
A Fragmented Marketplace
An Example in JP Morgan's Basement
4. First Business Model - Central Station Grid - 1882 to 1890s
Edison's Vision on Pearl Street
Downfall: A Business Model Constrained by Distance.
5. Second Business Model - Centralized Production, Competition - 1890s to 1920s
The Dominance of AC and Scale
Downfall: Competition in a Natural Monopoly
6. Third (and still current) Business Model - Regulated Monopoly - 1920s to 2020s
Regulation and Monopoly
Stressing the Business Model: The Four D's and Competition from Distributed Renewables
Part 3 - Emergence of a New Business Model
7. Four D's of Change: Financial Decline, Decarbonization, Decentralization, Digitization
Financial Decline
Decentralization
Decarbonization
Digitization
8. A Business Model Under Strain
The Value Chain: New Competition from Decentralized Renewables
The Customer: A Dream Customer No Longer
The Value Offering: Expanded Customer Expectations
Value Capture: An System in Need of Maintenance
9. The Future Business Model
What We Know
Shape of the Future Business Model
Part 4 - Pathways to Business Model Transformation
10. A Path Well Traveled - Recurring Patterns of Dislocation
11. Roadblocks to Change
The Roadblock of Technology
The Roadblock of Embedded Values and Thinking
The Roadblock of Financial Returns
Breaking Through Roadblocks
12. Pathways to Transformation
Approach 1 - Maintain Traditional Boundaries ("Stay in your lane")
Approach 2 - Extend the Existing Model ("Get a bigger umbrella")
Approach 3 - Develop Ambidexterity ("Use a different skill set")
Approach 4 - Experiment ("The path seldom taken")
References
John Manshreck - a CPA and management consultant with over two decades of consulting experience to public utilities, particularly in areas of smart grid deployment and large capital projects. John holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba (Canada), an MBA from London Business School (United Kingdom), and a Doctorate of Business Administration from the Grenoble Ecole de Management (France).