Presentation of Alexander Osterwalder’s business model templates.

The Business Model Canvas is a strategy and innovation tool to visualize, challenge, and invent business models. It is outlined in the book Business Model Generation http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com

Systematically understand, design and differentiate your business model. A handbook for visionaries, game changers and challengers.

From Wikipedia: a sociological model developed by Joe M. Bohlen, George M. Beal and Everett M. Rogers at Iowa State College, building on earlier research conducted there by Neal C. Gross and Bryce Ryan. Their original purpose was to track the purchase patterns of hybrid seed corn by farmers. Beal, Rogers and Bohlen together developed a technology diffusion model and later Everett Rogers generalized the use of it in his widely acclaimed book, Diffusion of Innovations (now in its fifth edition), describing how new ideas and technologies spread in different cultures. Others have since used the model to describe how innovations spread between states in the U.S.

From Edward Tufte

Management methods, models and theories

explains the process and stages of learning a new skill (or behaviour, ability, technique, etc.)

By Margaret Carlson from Popular Government. Describes a model of group effectiveness, explains how to employ the model to diagnose and remedy specific group problems, and discusses how to use the model to support continuing group development.