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Class 2: Business Modeling for Social
Enterprise
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Instructors:
Norm Tasevski (norm@socialentrepreneurship.ca)
Karim Harji (karim@socialentrepreneurship.ca)
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Agenda
• Centre for Social Innovation
• Business modeling your social venture
• What did we learn – Today?
• Next week
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A Caveat…
When we business model for social enterprise, we
focus on the “business”, not the “social”…
But don’t worry, we will come back to the “social”
later…
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A Second Caveat…
“Business
“Business Form/Legal
Model” Structure”
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A Third Caveat…
“Business “Business
Model” Plan”
Business
Model
1st!!!
(Business
Plan
2nd)
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Because…
It is a cure for “We Need a Plan-itis”
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And…
It is a Quick way to assess Profitability/Sustainability
– Why spend months building a plan if you don’t have a real
sense of profitability/sustainability?
– If your model doesn’t make money, even with the most
ideal conditions…
…STOP! (…and rethink your business model)
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One More…
It breaks down highly complex business ideas into
easily digestible (and visual) chunks
– Gets to the heart of what you need to know to:
Make a Go No-
Go Decision
Set Strategy
Make Potential
Investors/funders
(and business
partners) Happy :)
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13. Business Plans
Business Models
Are big and complex
Are small and visual
(often 50-100+ pages)
(1 page with about 10 supporting
pages)
Cover many topics
Focus on a few topics
(business description, financials,
marketing strategy, HR strategy,
(Will you make $$? How do the
Operations Strategy management team, pieces fit together?)
etc, etc, etc)
Take weeks/months to Take a few days (possibly
create
hours) to create
Are necessary for Feed the business plan!!
investors, funders,
business partners, etc
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Some Definitions
• “A business model describes the rationale of how an organization
creates, delivers and captures value – economic, social, or other
forms of value”
Wikipedia
• “A description of the means and methods a firm employs to earn the
revenue projected in its plans. It views the business as a system and
answers the question, “How are we going to make money to survive
and grow?”
BusinessDictionary.com
• “A business model describes the specific way the business expects to
make money. While a business plan is on paper (lots of paper!) a
business model should be small enough to stay in the heads of the
owner and staff. If a business model is on paper, it should be one
page, and it would be more clearly shown as a diagram than as
words.”
AudienceDialogue.net
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Customer Segments
What you need to care about is…
– Customer “Pain”
– Difference between a “customer” and a “client”
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Value Proposition (the “Offer”)
What you need to care about is…
– The “value” you are creating for customers (in terms
of products/services), and the “pain” you are
alleviating
– An exchange of value 19
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Quick…
What is the last thing you bought?
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Channels
What you need to care about is…
– How the customer receives the offer/value prop
– The physical “movement” of the offer into the hands
of the customer
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Relationships
What you need to care about is…
– Personal and impersonal interaction with the
customer
– The “movement” of information (e.g. marketing,
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Revenue Streams
What you need to care about is…
– Cash!!! (specifically, how cash flows into the
enterprise) – “Money In”
– Pricing models
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Key Resources
What you need to care about is…
– Assets…
– …and how these assets create value
– Includes human, physical, intellectual, and financial
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Key Activities
What you need to care about is…
– Actions (specifically, the actions you plan to take to
generate value)
– Both “direct” and “indirect”
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Key Partners
What you need to care about is…
– People/organizations that are integral to enabling
you to do business
– How you partner, and what you partner on
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A
Common Commitment
Vision! to Invest in
the
Partnership!
Same Core
Values!
Discreet
Missions!
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Cost Structure
What you need to care about is…
– Fixed costs, variable costs, economies of
scale…“money out”
– At this stage, focus on your cost assumptions! (don’t
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-Hire staff
-Personal
-Long hours
ce
(Baristas)
-Maintain spa sign
-Store front
-Coffee
ing
-Access to -Wireless
roasting/brew -35 yr old You
ng
-Coffee n
space
-Interior desig professional
that
suppliers
to
wants a place
k
relax and wor
quietly
-Locations
-Coffee shop
s
g
-Coffee makin
equipment
-Furniture
-Internet
g
-Baristas
-Staff trainin -In-store
-Asset Purchases
acquisition
(multiple per
-Marketing
visit)
-Rent
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Tip…
• Be a Business Model “Alchemist” – You need to go
through the business model process many times in
order to figure out which model best fits
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“Sticky Ideation”…
What we know! What we Don’t
Know!
Bridging the Gap!
!
(turning what we
don’t know into what
we know)!
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Next Week
• Engineers without Borders “Hot Seat”
– Review EWB materials (to be emailed this weekend)
– Be prepared to ask questions! You WILL be graded on it…
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