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Canvases and templates

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A canvas puts a business model on one page. Each box holds a hypothesis, and your job is to test each one with customers.

Start with the comparison of canvases, written in 2013, when they began to replace the business plan. The Business Model Canvas, the Lean Canvas and their cousins each suit a different project.

The templates are free: the Lean Canvas in French and the Business Model Canvas, both in PowerPoint and Google Slides, a Lean Canvas in English, and the customer profile of Value Proposition Design.

Then the canvases at work. The Innovation Canvas came out of using the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas on hundreds of projects: it keeps what helps a team talk about customers and their problems, and drops the rest. The Culture Map, another canvas, maps how a team works: one corporate team did it in two and a half hours.

Beyond the canvas: what a business will not do, how to organise once the model works, 55 business model patterns, and whether a startup still needs a business plan.

Start here

  1. Which Canvas for My Project ?

    So, RIP the business plan, long live the business model canvas. A new light and fresh tool that helps brings ideas into business. Now canvas …

    2 min read Opinion

  2. Business plans vs business models (Steve Blank)

    Steve Blank (2010): no plan survives first contact with customers. A business plan is a static document written before the facts; a startup should instead …

    1 min read Lean StartupLinkedIn

  3. Visualize your business model in 15 minutes flat

    A short IDEO video made for HackFwd: how to draw your business model in fifteen minutes to make it clear and share it.

    1 min read Lean StartupLinkedIn

  4. Business Model Generation – by Alexander Osterwalder

    Business Model Generation has become a big reference. Explains – with loads of examples, use cases and nice illustrations – a simple and powerful tool …

    1 min read Books

Templates to download

  1. Le Lean Canvas à télécharger

    Téléchargez directement le powerpoint du Lean Canvas en Français. Et la version Google Slide. Le Lean Canvas est une variante du Business Model Canvas, adapté …

    5 min de lecture Lean Startup

  2. A Power Point template for the Lean Canvas

    So, the Lean Canvas is making it’s way into people mind. You can create and edit yours on the Lean Stack website. I had a …

    1 min read Lean Startup

  3. Template PowerPoint pour le Business Model Canvas

    Les entreprises utilisent de plus en plus souvent le Business Model Canvas d’Alexander Osterwalder. Parfois appelé le BMC, c’est devenu maintenant un outil  incontournable de …

    1 min de lecture Lean Startup

  4. PowerPoint Template for Customer Profile in Value Proposition Design

    “The more you know your customers, the more you can help them.” an old friend used to remind me The Customer Profile is useful to …

    1 min read Lean Startup

Using the canvases

  1. Ne démarrez pas votre startup sans Lean Canvas

    Le post relaie une page de Draft.io sur le Lean Canvas, écrite avec Franck. Elle présente les neuf cases du canevas d'Ash Maurya dans leur ordre de …

    2 min de lecture Lean StartupLinkedIn

  2. Starting on the right track with the Innovation Canvas

    Over the past years, I have used both the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas on hundreds of projects. Those canvases have helped me …

    3 min read Lean Startup

  3. The Culture Map in action

    This is what I learned using the Culture Map tool with a corporate team. First a bit of context: I have been following Dave Gray’s …

    2 min read Lean Startup

  4. The Lean Roadmap, by Nicolas Nemni

    Nicolas Nemni proposes a Lean Roadmap Canvas to answer the two questions every startup product manager faces: when to add a feature, and which one. The …

    1 min read Lean StartupLinkedIn

Going further

  1. The Anti-BMC: how to make real strategic choices

    The Business Model Canvas describes what a business will do; the Anti-BMC asks what it will not do. Four questions force real strategic choices: which …

    1 min read StartupLinkedIn

  2. Implementing your business model with the Galbraith Star Model

    Strategyzer introduces Jay Galbraith's Star Model to execute a business model once it has been found: align five points of the organisation, strategy …

    1 min read Corporate EntrepreneurLinkedIn

  3. A library of business model patterns

    The Business Model Navigator, built by the BMI Lab and the University of St. Gallen, lists 55 recurring business model patterns, each with a short …

    1 min read InnovationLinkedIn

  4. Besoin de business plan pour sa startup? Les débuts de Gemmyo

    Révolutionner la joaillerie française en lui donnant une image jeune et branchée. C’était le pari de Pauline, Charif et Malek qui ont créé Gemmyo en …

    3 min de lecture Startup