Business model canvas

<p>The business model canvas is a <a href="/facts/Strategic_management/b4kFnS66">strategic management</a> template that is used for developing new <a href="/facts/Business_model/TL9XXsQa">business models</a> and documenting existing ones. It offers a visual chart with elements describing a firm's or product's <a href="/facts/Value_proposition/z5S8Dynv">value proposition</a>, infrastructure, customers, and finances, assisting businesses to align their activities by illustrating potential trade-offs.
</p><p>The nine "building blocks" of the business model design template that came to be called the business model canvas were initially proposed in 2005 by <a href="/facts/Alexander_Osterwalder/kCQnzHvX">Alexander Osterwalder</a>, based on his PhD work supervised by <a href="/facts/Yves_Pigneur/h0KjgBQg">Yves Pigneur</a> on business model <a href="/facts/Ontology_(information_science)/SQlhl6lp">ontology</a>. Since the release of Osterwalder's work around 2008, the authors have developed related tools such as the Value Proposition Canvas and the Culture Map, and new canvases for specific niches have also appeared.
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Business model canvas