The Business Model Canvas is a visual strategic-management technique for describing and analyzing the key elements of a business model.
The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is a visual technique for capturing the key aspects of a business model. It records a stakeholder’s perspective, supports comparison across stakeholders, and exposes alignment or disagreement. section 4.3.2
Use the canvas to:
Explore the current or future state of a business model. section 4.3.2
Map business models at different levels or in specific business areas. section 4.3.2
Connect business goals with further discovery and deliverable solutions, such as better recommendations enabled by better data use. section 4.3.2
From goal to opportunity
A team starts with a clear business goal and maps a stakeholder’s view of the business model. The canvas highlights an opportunity to use data better, prompting discovery of concrete outcomes such as better recommendations. section 4.3.2
How Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure covers it
How deep it goes
Explains visual mapping across stakeholder and business-area perspectives without detailing the canvas’s individual elements.
Examples
Uses stakeholder comparisons, current and future-state canvases, and data-enabled recommendations as mapping applications.
What you can do after
Apply it to compare perspectives, identify misalignment, and focus discovery on concrete business deliverables.
How it connects
Connects business-model mapping with Product Vision Board, Risk Storming, and modernization vision.
business modeluses · A business model is the structure by which an organization creates, delivers, and captures value through its activities.
collaborative discovery and modelingused by · Collaborative discovery and modeling is a group technique in which stakeholders jointly create and refine representations to establish shared understanding of a domain or system.
Wardley Mappingcontrasts with · Wardley Mapping is a visual strategy technique that maps user needs and supporting components in a value chain and positions them by evolutionary maturity.
value propositionhas part · A value proposition is a statement of the benefits and distinctive value an offering provides to its intended users or customers.
teamuses · A team is a group of people who collaborate and share responsibility for achieving a common objective.
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