10. Find the Gap
How to find
opportunities that others
don’t see.
- Amy Wilkinson
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11. How breakthrough ideas emerge from
small discoveries
Creative thinkers practice a set of simple but
ingenious experimental methods
• failing quickly to learn fast
• tapping into the genius of play
• engaging in highly immersed
observation
Free their minds, opening them up to making
unexpected connections and perceiving
invaluable insights.
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14. What is a business model?
Discuss with your neighbour what
you think a business model is and
write down your definition [the key
elements] .....
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15. What is a business model?
A business model describes the rationale
of how an organisation Creates, Delivers
and Captures value
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16. Why we need a shared language for
business models?
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17. Use of BMC in Established Companies
IMPROVE ----------------------------------INVENT
Know Problem/Know Solution -Unknown Problem/Unknown
Solution
------EXECUTE -------------------------SEARCH------------
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24. Customer Development Process
Post it to the Wall
Create the canvas
Make it visible
Use Yellow Post-It
notes with your
guesses
Get out of the building and test your hypotheses.
There are NO FACTS here. Talk to customers, partners,
vendors. Design experiments, run tests,
get data
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25. Hypotheses or Guesses
The canvas is a set of hypotheses, i.e. guesses
It helps us to organize our thinking! It is not
about functional organisation, but about the
business
The real question is HOW do we change those
guesses into FACTS?
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26. Identify the Problem
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Key Question: Do I have a problem worth solving?
Who has the problem?
What is the top problem?
How is it solved today?
Where do they have the problem or in what context do they have a
problem? (milkshake example)
When do they have the problem?
Why is it a problem? (Root Cause Analysis. Why is the single best
word for creating value in a start-up and an established business)
It is not possible to know what the top problem is without knowing
where, when and why they have a problem. Also the questions may
not be answered in sequence e.g. will we find the problem and the
person with the problem at the same time?
29. Define the Solution
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Take a stab at defining the solution
Build a demo (MVP)
Test it with assumed customers
Will the solution work? (Can the proposed
solution create customer value that exceeds the
cost to produce and deliver the solution to the
customer?)
Who is the early adopter?
Does the pricing model work?
32. Build an MVP
Soft launch to early adopters
Do they realise the unique value proposition
How will you find enough early adopters to support
learning?
Are you getting paid?
Analysis: There needs to be a bit of intuitive thinking
around the MVP. We need to ask and then guess how we
can create the most unique customer value in the shortest
amount of time with the least resources. With a bit of
thinking and an equal amount of action we have a chance
of appropriating real value in the short term
VALIDATE THE QUALITATIVELYValidate Qualitatively
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33. Launch your refined product to a larger audience
Have you built something people want?
How will you reach customers at scale
Do you have a viable business?
Analysis: A refined product needs to test both
qualitatively and quantitatively in order to find out why
the refined product creates customers’ value and how
large is the market potential?
Can this business produce (organically or through
investment) enough cash in the short term in order that
customers value - cost to produce = profit
Validate Quantitatively
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38. Traction is a measure of your product’s engagement
with its market. Investors care about traction over
everything else
- Nivi and Nival, Venture Hacks
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Ideal time to raise money
39. Finding the Problem is the Hard Part
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (Instagram Co-
founders)
Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom believes building
solutions for most problems is the easy part; the hard part
is finding the right problem to solve. Here he opens up
about how he and fellow Co-founder Mike Krieger
identified the problems they wanted to solve around
sharing photos through mobile devices. He also reminds
entrepreneurs to embrace simple solutions, as they can
often delight users and customers. 39
44. Additional innovation
potential
through business model
innovation
Innovation
potential
Business model
innovation
Process innovation
Product innovation/
Technology
innovation
Time
New Business Models allow for additional
innovation potential on top of product and
process innovation
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45. 45
“It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change.”
- Charles Darwin
48. “Studies comparing successful and
unsuccessful innovation have found that the
primary discriminator was the degree to
which the user needs were fully
understood.”
– David Garvin, Harvard Business School
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51. Customer Archetypes
Meet Paul, Sheetal and Barbara
Paul-RegularExerciser
• 20 – 45
• Aim to maintain and
track active lifestyle
• Looking for
inspiration on diet &
exercise regimes
• Gets a buzz from
exercising
Sheetal-SpiritualHealth
•
• 30 – 55
• Already follows a
healthy lifestyle
• Interested in
alternative
medicines/
treatments
• Believes eating well
is as important as
exercise
Barbara-On-OffDieter
•
• 30 +
• Yo-yo dieter, has
tried many of the fad
diets but never stuck
to one
• Needs tips and
motivation to keep
up a healthy lifestyle
• Irregular or
infrequent exerciser
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53. Q: Consider Selling Business Intelligence
Software into a large business. Which types
of customers are the following?
1. CFO
2. CIO
3. Report Users
4. Line of Business
Management
5. Business Intelligence
Group inside IT
a. Economic byer
b. Influencer
c. Recommender
d. Decision maker
e. Saboteur
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54. Q: Consider Selling Business Intelligence
Software into a large business. Which types
of customers are the following?
1. CFO
2. CIO
3. Report Users
4. Line of Business
Management
5. Business Intelligence
Group inside IT
a. Economic byer
b. Influencer
c. Recommender
d. Decision maker
e. Saboteur
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55. Multi-Sided Model
Buyer/Payer (e.g. Google)
Two sided markets – Buyers/Payees
1.Workers/Recruiters - LinkedIn
2.Banks/Merchants - Visa
3.Sellers/Buyers - eBay
4.Readers/Advertisers - New York Times
Each has its own value proposition
Each has its own revenue streams
One segment cannot exist without the other
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56. Corporate? Consumer?
Business to Business (B to B)
–Use or buy inside a company
Business to Consumer (B to C)
–Use or buy for themselves
Business to Business to Consumer (B to B
to C)
–Sell a business to get to a consumer
–Other Multi-sided Markets with multiple
customers
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58. “No one cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care”
– Theodore Roosevelt
EMPATHY MAPS
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59. Value proposition
• Which of our
customer’s
problems are we
helping to solve?
• Which Customer
needs are we
satisfying?
• What are the key
features of our
product that match
customers
problem/need?
What jobs do
they want done
, what's a good
outcomes for
them
What are
competitive
options and
how do I
differentiate
over others
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62. 7 Questions to improve your business model
1. Switching Costs
– e.g. Apple iPod & iTunes
2. Recurring Revenues
– e.g. Nespresso
3. Earn before you Spend
– e.g. Dell
4. Game changing Cost Structures
– e.g. Skype
5. Getting others to do the work
– e.g. Facebook
6. Scalability
– e.g. Diners Club
7. Protection from Competition
– e.g. Apple i-Phone (double sided market – app
developers/users) 62
63. Great Business Models always
outcompete great products and
great technologies
– Alex Osterwalder
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64. Nespresso – what’s next
https://strategyzer.com/training/courses/
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propositions-that-sell/1/1/4
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65. Prepare to cannibalize your Business Model
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“If you don’t cannibalize
yourself, someone else
will. Don’t protect your
products …. Protect the
customer experience and
your customer
relationships” – Steve Jobs
67. Review
–Great business models always
outcompete great products and
technologies
–If you understand the job, how to
improve the product becomes
obvious
–The BMC is a shared language for
business modelling
–Understanding the environment
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68. Strategy and Business Models – DIT PM Module 1
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76. Additional Resources Books
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Books:
The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills
of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs - Amy
Wilkinson
The Business Model Navigator – The 55
Models that will revolutionize your business
– Gassmann, Frankenberger & Csik
What Customers Want – Using Outcome-
Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough
Products and Services – Ulwick
77. Additional Resources
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BMC Online Tools:
Strategyzer
https://canvanizer.com/ (free tool)
Stattys Notes; http://www.stattys.com/
- A new generation of adhesive notes with a unique "Write
and Slide" function.
78. MVP
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is “that
product which has just those features and no
more that allows you to ship a product that
early adopters see and, at least some of whom
resonate with, pay you money for, and start to
give you feedback on”
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79. MVP #1 Explainer video
An explainer video is a short video that explains what
your product does and why people should buy it.
A simple, 90 seconds animation is sufficient.
e.g. Dropbox
How to make an explainer video
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80. MVP #2 A Landing Place
A landing page is a web page where visitors
“land” after clicking a link from an ad, e-mail
or another type of a campaign.
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81. MVP #2 A Landing Page
• Craft your Landing Page
• Set up a Google AdWord campaign to drive traffic to your new
landing page. You can let the AdWord engine rotate different
messages and test what works best on your prospects
• Set up Google Analytics. The most important thing to measure
is conversions – percent of visitors that sign up (or perform
another desired action)
• Set up a chat so that visitors can easily raise questions
• Set up a service like Qualaroo to survey your visitors
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82. MVP #3 Wizard of Oz
A “Wizard of Oz” MVP is when you put up a front that
looks like a real working product, but you manually carry
out product functions. It’s also known as “Flinstoning”
Zappos shoes is the biggest online shoe retailer, with
annual sales exceeding $1 billion. In his Lean Startup book,
Eric Ries describes how the founder started with a Wizard
of Oz product.
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83. MVP #4 The Concierge MVP
Instead of providing a product, you start with a manual
service. But not just any service! The service should consist
of exactly the same steps people would go through with
your product.
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84. MVP #5 Piecemeal MVP
This strategy is a blend between the “Wizard of
Oz” and “Concierge” approaches. Again, you
emulate the steps people would go through using
your product – as you envision it.
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85. MVP #6 Crowd Funding
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Sell it before you build it
The basic idea is simple: launch a crowd
funding campaign on platforms such as
Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. Not only will
you validate if customers want to buy
your product, but you will also raise
money
86. “Pattern in architecture is the idea of
capturing architectural design ideas
as archetypical and reusable
descriptions”
– Christopher Alexander, Architect
Patterns
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87. Identified 55 Business Model
patterns in the 5+ years of
intensive research into detailed
analysis of all major successful
business model innovators in the
last 50 years
-University of St. Gallen
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88. Pattern 39: Razor and Blade
Apple
iPod/iTunes
(2003)
Nestlé
BabyNes
(2012)
Nestlé
Special.Tea
(2010)
Hewlett-
Packard
(1984)
Nestlé
Nespresso
(1986)
Gillette
(1904)
Standard Oil
Company
(1880)
The basic product is either cheap
or give away for free. The
consumables that are needed for it
on the other hand are expensive or
high margin.
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89. Pattern 48: Subscription
Next Issue
Media (2011)
Dollar Shave
Club (2012)
Jamba
2004
Spotify
2006
Netflix
(1999)
Salesforce
(1999)
The customer pays a regular fee,
typically on a monthly or an annual
basis, in order to gain access to a
product or service.
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Blacksocks
(1999)
91. 91
3 Challenges in Business Model Innovation
1. Overcoming the dominant Industry
logic
2. Thinking in Business Models and not in
Technology and/or Products
3. Lack of Systematic Tools
92. 92
Successful business model
innovation creates value for your
customers and captures value for
your company. Many business
models fail to capture enough
value.
93. Who uses the business model canvas
and why do they use it?
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94. 15 ways to use the business model
canvas
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