Living Guide to Social Innovation Labs
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  • Introduction
  • Seeing
    • Understanding Complex Problems
      • Challenge Statements
      • Systems Thinking
      • Systems Mapping
      • Leverage Points
      • Wicked Questions
    • Design Research
      • Design Thinking
      • Ethnography
      • Interviews
      • Journey Mapping
      • Service Blueprint
      • Sensemaking
      • Dashboards
    • Systemic Design
    • Identifying and Engaging Key People
      • Stakeholders
      • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Doing
    • Co-Creation
      • Convening
        • Is Convening the Right Tool?
        • Types of Convening
      • Facilitation
      • Collective Impact
      • Ideation
    • Prototyping
      • Prototyping in a Lab Context
      • Testing
      • Types and Modalities
      • Prototyping Approaches
    • Scaling
      • Growth Thresholds
      • Scaling Up, Out, Deep
      • Tactics for Scaling
      • Scaling Strategy
    • Monitoring, Measuring and Communicating Impact
      • Types of Evaluation
      • Logic Models
      • Measures and Metrics
      • Standards of Evidence
      • Evaluating Complexity
      • Communicating Impact
  • Being
    • Innovation Labs and Process
      • Agile Project Management
      • Value Proposition
      • Theory for Change
      • Business Models
    • Resourcing and Team
      • Lab Partners
      • Team Expertise and Skills
      • Wellbeing of Remote Teams
      • Funding
    • Inclusion and Equity Practice
      • Power Structures
      • Innovation for Real Transformation
      • Truth and Reconciliation
      • Recommendations for Inclusive Practice
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  2. Innovation Labs and Process

Business Models

The Business Model Canvas may be helpful for social innovation labs to think through a business model for a project or solutions idea/ intervention.

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The Business Model Canvas (BMC) was originally developed to help startups think through their business model. The BMC is an alternative to a business plan, and helps entrepreneurs think through the different aspects of their business – helping them to build a business from scratch, or to improve on a specific business product or service.

The business model canvas is a powerful visual distillation of Alexander Osterwalder's PhD thesis "The Business Model Ontology." Its popularity has led to numerous adaptations, including socially and environmentally conscious variations. They include the , the , and the .

These canvases may helpful for social innovation labs to create a business model for a project, or solutions idea/ intervention.

Flourishing Business Canvas
Social Business Model Canvas
Mission Model Canvas
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3rd-Business Model Canvas - Systems Edition.pdf
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Template - Business Model Canvas
Source: Business Model Canvas, Strategyzer. https://strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-canvas.