Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Business Model Canvas" in English language version.
Two popular alternatives to conventional business plans are high-level overviews known as the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Lean Canvas is my adaptation of Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas, which he describes in the book Business Model Generation (Wiley).
Many variations of canvases are available, such as a lean canvas or a business opportunity canvas.
... we could define a business model as a simplified description of how a company does business without having to go into the complex details of all its strategy, processes, units, rules, hierarchies, workflows, and systems. However, now that we know that the business model is a simplified representation of how we do business, we still have to decide which elements to describe. A synthesis of literature shows that there are mainly 9 building blocks to help us describe a business model ...
The critical problem with current business model representations is the focus on a structural dimension (e.g., Osterwalder's Canvas, or Gordijn's e3-value). In particular, they leave (mostly) aside the specification of how business models components interact and behave in order to make the model work. Therefore, only a partial understanding of the business can be achieved with these business models.
... we could define a business model as a simplified description of how a company does business without having to go into the complex details of all its strategy, processes, units, rules, hierarchies, workflows, and systems. However, now that we know that the business model is a simplified representation of how we do business, we still have to decide which elements to describe. A synthesis of literature shows that there are mainly 9 building blocks to help us describe a business model ...
Two popular alternatives to conventional business plans are high-level overviews known as the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Many variations of canvases are available, such as a lean canvas or a business opportunity canvas.
Lean Canvas is my adaptation of Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas, which he describes in the book Business Model Generation (Wiley).
The critical problem with current business model representations is the focus on a structural dimension (e.g., Osterwalder's Canvas, or Gordijn's e3-value). In particular, they leave (mostly) aside the specification of how business models components interact and behave in order to make the model work. Therefore, only a partial understanding of the business can be achieved with these business models.
