The UNITE Business Model Canvas
A product is only as good as the Business Model (BM) that supports it, and creating an innovative product requires an equally innovative BM. The Business Model Canvas is an easy visual tool your team can use to conceptualize and iterate the key aspects of your Business Model.
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What the download contains
- UNITE Business Model Canvas – empty/with questions
- Extended Business Model Canvas – empty/with questions
- The UNITE Business Model Scorecard
- Overview of the entire UNITE Business Model Framework, which helps you understand the role of the Business Model Canvas in context
- Workshop instructions
- Fill order & risk management guide
Highly visual to help you understand your entire Business Model at a glance
Key questions for each section guide your thinking
We have got you covered: the UNITE Business Model Canvases is part of the full UNITE Business Model Framework that allows you to dive deep and really understand the relationships!
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How It Works
The UNITE Business Model Canvas—an iteration of Alexander Osterwalder’s original canvas—lays out the key parts of your business, including the:
Value Model— covering your different Value Propositions and related offers.
Service Model— The differentiating, core and non-core services delivered by an organization in support of their product.
Operating Model— Your approach to delivering your Value Proposition, broken into Value Chain, Key Resources, and Key Partners.
Value Model— covering your different Value Propositions and related offers.
Service Model— The differentiating, core and non-core services delivered by an organization in support of their product.
Operating Model— Your approach to delivering your Value Proposition, broken into Value Chain, Key Resources, and Key Partners.
Experience Model— The ways in which your customers experience your Value and Service Models, divided into Brand, Customer Relationships, Customer Engagement, and Channels.
Revenue Model— The ways your business earns money.
And, Cost Model— The resources you expend supporting the other aspects of the business.
The canvas allows you to see how the different areas connect, and as you iterate one part, you can think through how changes there affect the other aspects of the Business Model. The UNITE Business Model Canvas condenses years of business school and management consulting practice into a single page, with some straightforward questions to help you fill in each section.
Revenue Model— The ways your business earns money.
And, Cost Model— The resources you expend supporting the other aspects of the business.
The canvas allows you to see how the different areas connect, and as you iterate one part, you can think through how changes there affect the other aspects of the Business Model. The UNITE Business Model Canvas condenses years of business school and management consulting practice into a single page, with some straightforward questions to help you fill in each section.
What is the goal of the model?
An innovative Business Model. If you think of the revolution in transportation caused by Uber, or in hospitality led by Airbnb, you can see that it isn’t the product that changed, it was the Business Model. Your Business Model will need to grow alongside your product, and the UNITE Business Model Canvas enables you to plan and implement these changes.
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