Business Model Canvas (BMC)
Template and Instructions
Hard Facts
- Working Model: discover | experiment | build
- Importance: 5/5
- Workload: continuous work
Why
The Business Model Canvas demonstrates the full content and all the relationships within a business model in a very coherent way. It provides a simple, common language to talk about business models.
How
You can use the Business Model Canvas in three steps. First, you examine the desirability of the product or service, focussing on the needs of your customer. In the second step, you test the feasability. In other words, you develop solutions according to your customer‘s needs and examine their practical realisation. In the last step, your business model is validated regarding its economic viability.
What
A business model describes the way in which an organization creates, communicates, and records values. The Business Model Canvas supports you to present all these aspects of your business model in an understandable way.
Tips from w_39
- Do not spend too much time on filling it out to make it perfect. Instead, update it regularly so it can evolve through the whole process.
- In most cases, two business models can be filled in one canvas.
- The 55 business model navigator cards from St. Gallen are helpful to foster ideas.

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Instructions
Value Adds
Deep Dive in the World of Innovation
Business Model Canvas Explained
(Strategyzer)
How to Develop a New Business Model
(BMI Lab)
IBMC 2013: Owlet – 1st Place
(Business Model Competition Global)
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
Yves Pigneur
The Business Model Navigator
Oliver Gassmann
Karolin Frankenberger
Michaela Csik
BMI Pattern Cards
BMI Lab
Ten Types of Innovation
Larry Keeley
Ryan Pikkel
Helen Walters
Brian Quinn