Lean Business Canvas

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Lean Business Canvas

Lean Business Canvas

Approach Lean Business Canvas

As with the classic Business Model Canvas, 9 topic areas that span a business model are also processed here. Using questions and examples, founders in particular can create their concept with little effort.

The topics are divided into three main areas:

  1. The target customers, their problems and possible solutions
  2. The market differentiation of the initiative
  3. The financial conditions

In this way, a business model can be developed on three ConWISE boards.

Description of the Lean Business Canvas

Many innovators and founders ask themselves how they can find out whether their idea will work before they invest a lot of time and effort in formulating a business plan. One possibility is to create a short and precise business model. The classic Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder (background here) is well suited to clearly depict an existing and functioning company on one page, but it is not pragmatic enough to present a business idea in the early stages.

Ash Maurya modified Osterwalder’s model to the effect that business ideas can be put to a test even before a company is founded. For this purpose, he exchanged certain building blocks of the business model and replaced them with those that have a high relevance especially for start-ups in the early days. This gave rise to the approach of a Lean Business Canvas presented here.

Thematic classification

Strategy development

Advanced methods

New Leadership Skills Assessment

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New Leadership Skills Assessment

Procedure for the New Leadership Skills Assessment

The New Leadership Skills Assessment consists of 8 competency areas. Each field of competence is processed in 2 steps:

  1. Assessment of current skills using a scale.
  2. Determine focus areas to strive for improvement in

As a result, you will receive a personal competence profile with a summary of the areas for improvement.

The procedure is suitable as a self-assessment, or you ask third parties to assess you and thus obtain independent feedback.

Description of the New Leadership Skills Assessment

The New Leadership Skills Assessment is based on various studies on future requirements in the world of work (including McKinsey Skills of the Future). The majority assumes that tomorrow’s work will be characterised by increasing digitalisation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, managers will also have to find their way in a hybrid working world. Employees work both in the office and from home at times. This requires special and partly new competences from managers. These competences have been divided into 8 competence fields:

Thematic classification

Self-assessment or third-party feedback method

Limits of Application

As with any self-assessment, the result depends on personal reflection. The more honest you are with yourself, the more you can take away from it. In order to reduce complexity, the scale was divided into 4 fields with the help of which the assessment is made. On the one hand, this may be inaccurate, but on the other hand it helps to avoid different interpretations.

Advanced methods