The UNITE Value Proposition Canvas
The Value Proposition Canvas provides a framework that centers your customers. It supports understanding the problem your customer is truly trying to solve so that you can design an elegant and effective solution.
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- The UNITE Value Proposition Canvas
- The UNITE Business Model Canvas
Overview of the entire UNITE Business Model Framework, which helps you understand the role of the Value Proposition in context
Central to a customer-centric approach
Identify your Jobs to be Done and build an offering based on them
Discover your true competitors
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Why we use it
Many people begin innovation with a product but discover when they launch that no one wants or needs what they have created. Through the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework, we center the customer’s needs and ensure that the product/solution you design will respond to a specific job they need to get done.
How It Works
The Value Proposition Canvas has three sides.
The Customer Profile in the center of the canvas allows you to get into your customer’s head and thus clarify their Job to be Done from both functional and psychological perspectives.
The Product Value Map on the left helps you define how you intend to create value for that customer given their unmet needs. The ultimate objective is to achieve fit between the Customer Profile and the Product Value Map. You have achieved that fit once the product solves a clear Job to be Done.
The Customer Profile in the center of the canvas allows you to get into your customer’s head and thus clarify their Job to be Done from both functional and psychological perspectives.
The Product Value Map on the left helps you define how you intend to create value for that customer given their unmet needs. The ultimate objective is to achieve fit between the Customer Profile and the Product Value Map. You have achieved that fit once the product solves a clear Job to be Done.
The Substitutes section outlines what people are currently using to solve their Job to be Done and identifies inertias and obstacles that might prevent them from switching, even if your solution is superior. Your product is competing against other products that meet customers’ deeper needs in entirely different ways. Gaining a customer means not only offering a superior solution but overcoming their resistance to trying something new.
What is the goal of the model?
That’s easy: A happy customer. Happy customers ensure your company’s success, and you make customers happy by providing a solution to a problem that they need solved. This can only be achieved by placing the customer at the center of the process, understanding their needs and iterating your product until it perfectly meets their needs.
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