A Business Model Canvas is an easy to use, lightweight and powerful tool for anyone looking to sketch out business models. It is quickly becoming the preferred strategic management tool for start-up organizations.
While it is available in .pdf form from Alex Osterwalder’s site, I couldn’t help but feel that companies could benefit from an online, collaborative version of his template.
So, I asked him…
It only takes a Google Account, a few minutes of your spare time and best of all it’s free.
Create a Google Drawing
Give your drawing a background color
Select the rectangle tool
Draw a large rectangle
Select the line tool and slice the rectangle up into 9 sections
Use the text tool to add in each section label
Include the help text for each section in a lighter gray font color (optional)
Fill in the background color and create the header & footer
Create sticky images in photo editing software
Import the sticky images into the Google Drawing
Drag the images off to the gutter so they do not get in your way
Use the text tool to overlay text onto your sticky
Drag the sticky over to your business canvas
Copy, paste and move the stickies around as needed
I’ve shared the Business Model Canvas I created in this demo if you wish to get a better idea of how it is structured. It is only a guide, and you can customize it in many different ways if you like.
I really like lean stack for creating the lean canvas – something I’ve been using when planning apps. Balsamiq also works pretty well for sketching out a canvas (not free) – I created a lean canvas template on there that balsamiq users can use for free (there is also a business model canvas template on there).
nramirez
It is very cool, is there anyway to link text contents in each of the nine blocks to a Spreadsheet (like a DataBase) ?
Check this one out – really useful and free: https://bmfiddle.com
Thanks! That really helped!
My own version a couple months old http://imgur.com/gUwgpNd
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