How to use the Business Model Canvas: Learning about this strategic management and lean start-up framework and how to apply it
Do you own, lead or manage an SME? Do you play a role in making key decisions about the future direction your business takes? Would you like to know more about approaches to planning and modelling that will help you make assured strategic decisions to leverage growth? If you would, this business-critical session is a must.
The chances are that wherever you are in your business’ lifecycle right now, you’ll be juggling a complex range of ideas, resources, activities and options as you formulate plans to ready your business for both the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.
Sound planning should be at the heart of every business - whether you are starting a completely new venture, or looking at ways to grow an existing one. The road ahead can be strewn with complications and pitfalls, these tools have been developed over the last decade, which enable you to make sense of this complexity and proceed in a straightforward and disciplined way. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is one such tool and perhaps the most powerful and accessible. It can help you discover if your product or service is aligned with what customers value and need, before significant investment of your hard earned cash and resources.
This valuable session aims to take you through BMC and shows you how to harness its power to sharpen your decision-making.
Who should attend this session?
This webinar is ideal for SME business owners, managers and leaders, who are striving to better understand how their organisations create value and utilise this insight to drive planning and ultimately support better business judgements.
What will we cover?
- Understanding how the BMC works and helps you better-evaluate the options available and deliver what your customer values.
- Exploring how the BMC enables you to test your ideas and adapt them to improve your model over time.
- Looking at key insights, advice and tips on using the BMC as part of your wider strategy and business discussions and to drive your research and testing
- Q&A
What outcomes can you expect from joining us?
Attending this webinar will enable you to:
- Better understand how your business model might create value.
- Identify your riskiest assumptions, before you implement your plan.
- Consider the options, make informed decisions and hone strategic thinking.
- Develop behaviours needed to successfully move from ‘thinking’ to ‘doing’.
Who’ll be presenting this session?
Steve Hobbs is a widely respected Facilitator, Coach and Mentor, specialising in engendering behaviours that drive growth. With over two decades of experience, he’s worked with individuals and teams from organisations of all sizes - from start-ups to global corporates. Steve is dedicated to helping businesses to plan and implement strategies which help them navigate uncertain and often complex environments, such as the one we now find ourselves in.
This presentation is delivered in partnership with Business Gateway Growth Hub and Asking Better Questions Ltd and is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Places are limited and priority will be given to trading SMEs based in Leicester and Leicestershire.