Customer Growth Hacking: The First Things You Need to Know to Exponentially Grow Customers

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The late Peter Drucker once said, "The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer." How wise! And what a customer-centric presentation of a business's main goal especially for startups: create and keep customers. But, how can entrepreneurs as well as startups rapidly and inexpensively acquire, retain, and grow customers? To answer the above question, this presentation introduces the concept of "Customer Growth Hacking" while visually defining it. As can be seen in the above slide, Sean Ellis's concept of "Growth Hacking (GH)" is a subset of "Customer Growth Hacking (CGH)." While Growth Hacking focuses on technology, marketing tactics, and PR to accelerate customer growth, Customer Growth Hacking deals with a more holistic perspective. In particular, Customer Growth Hacking involves strategies as well as tactics for rapidly and inexpensively discovering as well as solving Big Urgent Market Problems (BUMPs). Customer Growth Hacking uses an experimental (Lean Startup) approach while continuously applying the O.T.H.E.R. Loop to discover and solve customer problems. O.T.H.E.R. is an acronym for Observe different; Think different; Hypothesize different; Experiment different; Reflect different. Over the years, I've developed many, many tools for holistically discovering and solving problems in any domain. All these tools are now brought together and tightly integrated under the umbrella of Customer Growth Hacking. Please note that Customer Growth Hacking is synonymous with what I sometimes call "Leaner Problem Solving." The best of luck as you apply Customer Growth Hacking to rapidly and inexpensively discover as well as solve BUMPs.

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Rod King, Ph.D.

Of late, there seems to be one tool for every business goal or objective. Such proliferation of tools leads to a lot of waste in terms of money, energy, and time that are required to learn and master business tools. The Business Model Strip is a "revolutionary approach" that introduces a master (platform) tool that relates to all business tools. Here, the Business Model Strip or "One Line Business Model (OLBM)" is presented from the perspective of the SIPOC tool.

Two Steps for Rapidly Eliminating Pain in Every Business, Non-Profit Organiza...

Rod King, Ph.D.

Should We Burn the BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS and LEAN CANVAS?

Rod King, Ph.D.

The Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas are "staple business tools" that are used the world over by entrepreneurs, startups, and established companies. But the question is: Should we burn the Business Model Canvas as well as the Lean Canvas? Burning a business tool may be strange. And admittedly, "burning a business tool" is a gimmick to stir up controversy especially with practitioners and fans of a business tool. Alexander Osterwalder stirred up fans and ardent practitioners of the Business Plan when on November 26, 2012 he wrote an article in the online Wall Street Journal, "Burn Your Business Plan - Before it Burns You;" see http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2012/11/26/burn-your-business-plan-before-it-burns-you/ I present the issue of burning the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas because they have rather irreparable structural problems. And, in my view, the structural problems of the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas are limiting creativity and innovation in business modeling tools. Many cannot escape the box of the Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas. In this document, I present a case on why the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas should be burnt. An alternative tool of the Business Model Strip is introduced. Luckily the Business Model Strip is compatible with both the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas.

Business Model Strip SCORECARD FOR RADICALLY IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF BUS...

Rod King, Ph.D.

This presentation features the Business Model Strip SCORECARD, which is a template for radically improving the performance of business models for startups as well as as established companies. The Business Model Strip Scorecard seamless integrates ideas from the Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Map, and Business Model Canvas as well as over 10 other business tools. Consequently, the Business Model Strip Scorecard offers the most comprehensive tool for managing the performance of business models.

Flourishing Business Canvas vs. Total Happiness Canvas: Similarities and Diff...

Rod King, Ph.D.

I recently came across the Flourishing Business Canvas and I'm struck by its conceptual rigor which is similar to that of the Total Happiness Canvas that I developed. The Flourishing Business Canvas was developed by Antony Upward. Rod King's Total Happiness Canvas involves an application to business modeling of Albert Einstein's idea of a SpaceTime continuum. SpaceTime is defined by two question-tags: When (Time) and Where (Space or System). The four question-tags of Who, What, How, and Why define a system including its impacts or value (negative and positive). Integrated with the Total Happiness Canvas is a heuristic for universal pain (problem) solving and learning, that is, the Pain-Plan-Do-Review (PPDR) Cycle. This heuristic draws upon the learning cycle of Plan-Do-Review as well as Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle for continuous improvement. Addition of a "Pain" dimension to the latter cycle expands the aforementioned heuristics to a cycle for pain (problem) solving. In this presentation, I present side-by-side topics of the Flourishing Business Canvas and the Total Happiness Canvas. In this way, similarities and differences between the two canvases can be quickly seen. There are two major differences between topics of each tool. First, the topics of the Total Happiness Canvas are driven by a question-and-answer framework. In particular, the Total Happiness Canvas is driven by a Pain Solving Question (PSQ) that must first be formulated. The basic format of the PSQ is: "How Might We Eliminate Pain (HMWEP) of 'X'?' It's important to note that 'X' can be any theme, topic, or issue. The PSQ is then iteratively answered by going through the Pain-Plan-Do-Review (PPDR) Cycle. Tools like the Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, and Flourishing Business Canvas serve as 'scoreboards' while iteratively answering the PSQ. The second main difference is that the Total Happiness Canvas is a visual "plug-and-play" platform that provides a Universal Pain Solving & Project Management (UPSPM) process for achieving goals in any domain. All business tools can be used in conjunction with the Total Happiness Canvas. Consequently, the Total Happiness Canvas can be used for "playing" the tool of the Flourishing Business Canvas. While using the process of the Total Happiness Canvas, the Flourishing Business Canvas acts as a visual information manager or 'scorecard' for organizing and managing ideas on each topic within the framework of UPSPM. Finally, when used with the Total Happiness Canvas, many tools such as in Design Thinking, Six Sigma Methodology, Lean Startup Method, and Theory can be seamlessly applied using the Flourishing Business Canvas. The framework of the Total Happiness Canvas allows many and varied pain (problem) solving tools to be mixed and matched.

Family of 4 Visual Templates for the TOTAL HAPPINESS CANVAS

Rod King, Ph.D.

The first 'canvas' tool, which I encountered in business, was the Strategy Canvas in the toolkit of Blue Ocean Strategy. The Strategy Canvas involves the plot of Value Curves for organizations (businesses) in the Red Ocean as well as Blue Ocean. After the Strategy Canvas came the tessellation of the "Business Model Canvas that was developed by Alexander Osterwalder. The Business Model Canvas is a 'phenomenon' in the business community especially for startups. The Business Model Canvas is used worldwide and has spawned countless variations of its tessellation. The Lean Canvas by Ash Maurya is the most popular variant of the Business Model Canvas. The tessellated format of the Business Model Canvas has many advantages including the facilitation of collaborative visual presentation of business model ideas both horizontally (on a table) and vertically (on a wall). However, the tessellated template has 'straight-jacketed' how people think about the visual structure of a business model. A large majority of people now think that a tessellation is the only format for visually presenting a business model. Such thinking has serious disadvantages, for the topics of a business model are "nodes" that can be expressed in a wide variety of graphical formats such as in a chain, tree (Mind Map), and network. In this presentation, the four nodes (Pain-Plan-Do-Review) of the Total Happiness Canvas or Pain-Plan-Do (PPDR) Cycle are presented using a family of visual templates: Chain; Macro-canvas; Tree; Network. The format of the Macro-canvas consists of 5 macro-blocks. There is strong structural correspondence between the visual format of the Macro-canvas and that of the Business Model Canvas which consists of 9 building blocks. The "Pain" block of the Macro-canvas can be decomposed into three blocks of the Business Model Canvas: Customer Segments; Customer Relationships; Channels. In a similar manner, the "Do" block can be decomposed into three blocks of the Business Model Canvas: Key Partners; Key Activities; Key Resources. The same decomposition principle applies to the Lean Canvas as well as other canvases. By introducing flexibility and variation in visually presenting the topics that describe a business model, we can take advantage of the strengths of other visual templates while minimizing the inherent weakness of a tessellated format. Further, we can develop agility in visual communication by freely having conversations using different visual templates for business models.

Rapid Organizational Improvement (ROI): Instantly Xray Every For-Profit and N...

Rod King, Ph.D.

Business modeling tools such as the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas are complex, expensive, and time-consuming to learn especially when modeling platforms (two/multisided markets). Consequently, such modeling tools are ill-suited for Non-Profit Organizations which are inherently platforms. This presentation introduces the COPS Diamond ("Xray") technique which can be used to instantly model For-Profit Organizations as well as Non-Profit Organizations. Using the COPS Diamond saves organizations money, energy, and time especially in change management projects.

Business Model Canvas: GOOD TOOL with BAD INSTRUCTIONS

Rod King, Ph.D.

Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas is widely used by entrepreneurs around the world. It is a good tool. However, the Business Model Canvas is not great because it does not explicitly focus on solving the pain of stakeholders. In short, the Business Model Canvas is not a direct tool for pain (problem) solving. The Business Model Canvas was originally conceived as a 'scorecard' for visually documenting a business model. Consequently, the Business Model Canvas is 'time agnostic:' it can be used for documenting past, present, and future business models. In theory, the Business Model Canvas is a visual synthesis of topics for comprehensively describing a business model or project. Recognizing the deficit of the Business Model Canvas with regard to pain (problem) solving, several practitioners have tried to modify it as well as add complementary tools and processes. In his Customer Development Stack, Steve Blank adds the process of Customer Development to facilitate pain discovery. He also adds Agile Development (Lean Startup) Method to facilitate experimentation using hypotheses from a "Future (Hypothetical) Canvas." Ash Maurya has modified building blocks of the Business Model Canvas to suit the mindset and language of "Lean Startup" entrepreneurs as well as directly include the paradigm of pain (problem) solving. Maurya includes building blocks such as for "Problem," "Solution," and "Key Metrics." However, Maurya's building blocks such as "Unfair Advantage" violate the system logic of the Business Model Canvas. To date, many entrepreneurs are busy completing building blocks of the Business Model Canvas without a clear pain (problem) solving process. The Build-Measure-Learn Loop of the Lean Startup Method can be used with the Lean Canvas. However, to date the process has not been seamlessly integrated with the logic of the Business Model Canvas. So, what are we to do? This presentation introduces the Pain-Plan-Do-Review (PPDR) Cycle which can be used with or without the Business Model Canvas. Housing the PPDR Cycle is the Community Happiness Canvas which focuses presenting a Pain Solving Question (PSQ) which is answered by using 8 topics of LIST: List of Innovate Salone Topics. The presentation shows correspondences between topics of the Business Model Canvas and Community Happiness Canvas. By using the PPDR Cycle of the Community Happiness Canvas in conjunction with the topics of the Business Model Canvas, entrepreneurs can rapidly solve the pains of stakeholders especially customers.

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