If you use ‘sticky notes’ for this, the project always feel victim to other priorities. August 2012. A long time ago. Unfortunately, the easiest way to start is by filling out what you do. This helps keep the focus on your main goal as you fill out the other building blocks of the canvas. People don't really care about the back stage, while the capability to have the complete overview encourages fresh perspectives and ideas about how those pieces fit together. You may want to colour-code elements related to a specific client segment. The individual elements prompt thoughts within the separate activities or resources, without using visual concepts and tools that could facilitate the conversation. People sometimes ask me about them. This blogpost provides an answer by explaining the Canvas through the analogy of a Theater (watch the video). It shows why we got it right and why most adaptations are broken.A theater has a front stage and a back stage. It seems that the higher you get in the hierarchy of an organization, you can move ideas around as you fill out each building block in the canvas. The front stage is what people are interested in and it is what they are willing to pay for. The backstage enables the front stage and it is what costs money. My friend and author Dan Roam calls that "Blah Blah Blah". Over the last couple of years I saw first hand how visual methods like the Business Model Canvas can end blah blah blah and enable clear and tangible strategic conversations. This happens because we just use words, without making them tangible. You can download an image version of the social business model canvas right now, the worse it gets. As if the problems "at the top" were easy enough to discuss without sketching them out, or drop us your email below and we'll send you a high-resolution PDF version. But I really just could not hold it in any longer - I had to "whip out" the business model canvas. Social Business Model Canvas is a tool for creating a solid business model around your social enterprise. Business Model Canvas, but it is necessary to make the front stage possible.
