CHAPTER 8

The Next Business Revolution?

We feel the stirrings of a revolution in business model innovation. After all the years we’ve spent working in this field, we believe that the lessons of BMI’s potential are finally breaking through. To be sure, there have always been creative people more interested in changing the way value is created or work gets done than in building a better mousetrap. Lately, however, we have seen the focus on BMI becoming ever more intense in many different arenas.

Some of that intensity is fueled by the type of frustration that people often experience when they interact with government bureaucracies. Inspired to break that cycle of frustration, a nonprofit organization called Code for America (CFA) brings together ...

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