Business Model Design
Strategy tools for business model design.
16 tools
- Bain Business Unit Strategy — Give each business unit its own honest diagnosis of market position and capability, rather than one strategy for the whole portfolio.
- Blockchain Business Model Canvas — The standard Business Model Canvas re-read for blockchain: where does decentralisation actually create value.
- Business Model Canvas (BMC) — The whole business model on one page: nine blocks from customer segments to cost structure.
- Business model scalability — Test whether growth gets cheaper as you add customers, or costs roughly the same for every new one.
- ExO (Exponential Organization) Attributes — Ten traits, five external (SCALE), five internal (IDEAS), that let a small team punch above its size without the assets.
- Hambrick and Fredrickson's Strategy Diamond — Test a strategy against five linked questions: arenas, vehicles, differentiators, staging, economic logic.
- Hierarchies of Business Model Elements — Arrange business model components in layers, foundations up to the revenue and cost result, to find which layer is broken.
- Lafley & Martin's 5-Step Strategy Model — A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin's five cascading choices for where to compete and how to win there.
- Lean Canvas Model — A one-page, nine-box map of your business model that surfaces the riskiest assumptions before you build anything.
- Legal Lean Canvas Model — A law-firm adaptation of the Lean Canvas: nine boxes reframed around client pain points and billable value.
- McKinsey's Three Horizons of Growth — Split growth into defending the core, building what's emerging, and seeding options for what's next.
- Osterwalder’s Business Model Environment — Map market, industry, trend and macroeconomic forces around your business model before you commit to it.
- Platform Business Model Canvas — A Business Model Canvas adapted for platforms - map value, activities and revenue for every side of the network at once.
- Platform Canvas — Map a multi-sided platform on a twelve-block grid - consumer and producer sides mirrored around the core interaction, with cost, monetisation and
- Three Levels of Business Models — Sort your business models into Existing, Adjacent and New, so you build a portfolio of models instead of betting everything on the one you've got.
- Triple Layered Business Model Canvas — Stack the Business Model Canvas with environmental and social layers, designed together, not bolted on after.