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Applying DEVD in Practice: A Board-Ready Scorecard for Business Model Decisions

Boards and executive committees are increasingly asked to approve decisions that go far beyond traditional capital expenditure or market entry. Today’s strategic agenda routinely includes subscription transitions, platform plays, ecosystem partnerships, usage-based pricing, open innovation models, and digital reinvention initiatives. Each of these decisions reshapes how the organization creates, delivers, and captures value. Yet many...

Monetization Architecture: Pricing and Revenue Logic as a Strategic Control Point

In many organizations, pricing is treated as a commercial decision—something owned by sales and marketing, adjusted in response to competition, and revisited when quarterly results disappoint. Revenue mechanics, meanwhile, are often treated as “implementation details” to be finalized after a new product or service has been designed. This approach is increasingly dangerous. In today’s markets,...

Pattern Fit Evaluation: How to Select the Right Business Model Pattern Without Betting the Enterprise

Business model innovation is no longer a discretionary exercise. In fast-moving markets, it is a requirement for relevance, resilience, and growth. Yet, while many organizations now speak confidently about “new models”—subscriptions, platforms, ecosystems, usage-based pricing, open innovation—the practical challenge remains unchanged: How do we select the right business model pattern without exposing the enterprise to...

The Enterprise Value Logic Assessment: Identifying Hidden Assumptions That Erode Market Relevance

Organizations rarely lose relevance in a single moment. Market relevance typically erodes in stages—quietly at first, then suddenly and visibly. Early indicators appear as subtle shifts: sales cycles lengthen, customer objections become more frequent, win rates deteriorate, margins tighten, and customer retention becomes harder to defend. Management teams often respond by increasing marketing spend, launching...

Business Model Patterns, Board Oversight, and Sustainable Growth: A Governance Lens on Reinvention

Boards and executive teams are under pressure to deliver growth, respond to disruption, and fund innovation—without compromising financial integrity or risk discipline. Against this backdrop, many organizations are exploring new business models, experimenting with digital platforms, recurring revenue, ecosystem plays, and new pricing mechanisms. Yet, even as the vocabulary of “transformation” becomes commonplace, there is...

From Strategy to Value Capture: Introducing the Dawgen Enterprise Value Design Framework (DEVD)

In most organizations, strategy documents read well. They describe market opportunity, competitive positioning, digital transformation, customer-centricity, and growth ambitions. They are debated at length, endorsed by boards, and communicated to leadership teams. Yet, when results are reviewed 12–24 months later, a familiar pattern emerges: Revenue growth is slower than projected. Margins are thinner than planned....

R is for Returns: Assessing Whether the Business Truly Creates Value

1. Profit Is Not the Whole Story By the time most readers reach the bottom of the income statement and see “profit for the year,” they feel they have their answer: “We made money.” “We lost money.” “We did better than last year.” But in Dawgen Global’s SMARTEST™ Financial Statement Interpretation Framework, profit is only...

Care, Capacity and Cash Flows: Dawgen CARI-VAL Health™ for Valuing Healthcare Businesses in the Caribbean

Hospitals, clinics, diagnostic labs, pharmacies, medical suppliers and healthtech platforms sit at the heart of well-being, productivity and social stability. In Jamaica, the wider Caribbean, and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), the healthcare sector is also: A major employer A significant consumer of public budgets A growing area for private investment, PPPs and insurance...

From Ports to Parcels: Dawgen CARI-VAL Logistics™ for Valuing Transport and Supply Chain Platforms in the Caribbean

Ships, ports, airports, trucking fleets, warehouses, courier networks and 3PLs (third-party logistics providers) are the circulatory system of modern economies. In Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), logistics is even more critical: Most economies are small, open and import-dependent Tourism, manufacturing, agriculture and e-commerce all rely on reliable, cost-effective logistics...

Regulating for Resilience: Modern Grid Rules to Enable Investment, Innovation and Social License

Regulation is fast becoming one of the most strategic levers for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) energy future—not just a technical box-ticking exercise. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)’s new technical note, “Unlocking the Grid: How to Ensure Reliable and Sustainable Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean” (Alarcón & Quirós-Tortós, 2025), places modern, resilient...

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