This recorded session from the NISHATI Business Skills Lab provides a practical exploration of business models and business planning within real-world development and infrastructure contexts. The session focuses on how viable business ideas can be structured, evaluated, and transformed into actionable and sustainable business plans.
Participants gain hands-on understanding of essential business modelling components, including cost structures, revenue streams, production parameters, and project feasibility assessment. Through expert-led discussions and analysis of real project cases, the session demonstrates how business plans are developed and applied within infrastructure and sustainable development initiatives.
The session also explores approaches to identifying project opportunities, evaluating assumptions, and understanding how financial and operational factors influence long-term business success. Real examples from infrastructure and development projects help participants connect theoretical concepts with practical implementation.
Key themes covered include business model design, centralized and distributed systems, project scouting, infrastructure co-use, financial analysis, and the structure of professional business plans.
This session forms part of the NISHATI Business Skills Lab series aimed at strengthening entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development competencies among students and young professionals across partner institutions.
Flavio Andreoli Bonazzi is a renewable energy and infrastructure expert at Hydrowatt with extensive experience in hydropower, sustainable infrastructure development, and applied engineering solutions. His work focuses on renewable energy systems, irrigation infrastructure, and sustainable technologies that support economic and environmental resilience. Through his contribution to the NISHATI Business Skills Lab, he provides practical industry insights that connect academic learning with real-world infrastructure and development challenges.
