SOFT Ideation®️
25 innovative ideation thinking set
Did you know many great business ideas are sharing some common key disciplines?
Now you can check out 25 key disciplines extracted from more than 500 business innovation cases to make your business softer. It makes you generate great business ideas easily.
Not surprisingly, SOFT includes some similar disciplines to those of TRIZ and SCAMPER. But it is rooted in the study of many business innovation cases. So I bet it has a good fit for making great business ideas.
Product Concept Canvas
Finding the intersection of the essence, customer, industry
All most innovative products and services are coming from intersection of different things. Those can be between Humanities and technology, oldies and newbies, and emotion and logic.
This product concept canvas focuses on the origin of category, customer pain points, and common sense (stereotypes) of our industry. If you fulfill the category's original reason for existence, solution for customer pain points, denial of stereotypes then new reason for existence innovation will be realized.
4by4 Business Model Patterns Matrix
38 powerful business model patterns
The 4by4 Business Model Patterns is a framework to use more than 38 business patterns for empowering and tweaking prior business model to new one.
It applies the four arithmetical operations to business model components like Customer, Product, Channel, Profit Model.
Business Model Map
Cross-over map across blue ocean strategy, service design, lean startup, and BM canvas
You can use Blue Ocean Strategy, Service Design, Lean Startup, and BM Canvas all together within Business Model Map context.
The underlying map also connects business model ZEN canvas to other innovation methods.
Visual ActionBoard (for Value Check)
Validating assumptions of your value proposition
Visual Action Board can make you to validate value hypothesis of your business model. You can plan an experiment and check the real action status as SCRUM project management do.
BM ZEN®️ Business Design Canvas
Customer-centered holistic business model design canvas
Zero Enables Neo. Zenith Emerges from Nurture. Business Model ZEN reflects the simplicity, balance, and integrity of the business world. This canvas helps entrepreneurs have a holistic and integrated worldview of our world. You can achieve strong business success from an early stage to a mature one.
BM ZEN®️ Introspection Canvas
Mirroring canvas for introspection and integrity check.
Business Model ZEN includes a feedback system if your business model has some weak points and needs more reviews. This is very powerful because it stimulates the as-is business model to be escalated to more evolved status. It can be done within the business model zen canvas and you can see the resulting signals (blue, green, red) of the as-is business model. Business coaches and trainers as well as business owners can have benefit from this structured process.
BM ZEN®️ Business Checklist
Business Checklist with questions for designing your business
ZEN Canvas helps entrepreneurs have a holistic and integrated worldview of our world. From the early stage to the mature stage, you can achieve strong business success.
Through this business checklist, you can review what you need to think about and ask questions in each major area.
Visual ActionBoard (for Growth Check)
Validating assumptions of your growth system
Visual Action Board can make you validate the growth hypothesis of your business model. You can plan an experiment and check the conversion status organically as AARRR/marketing funnel management do.
Ecosystem Design Canvas (I)
Platform space value design through an intersection
A good platform creates ecosystem values that are connected not only with companies, but also with partners, society, and customers.
A platform is not a business that sells through pipelines, but a system that is bigger than me, where all participating customers and partners get value. In the stage of serious consideration for the platform, it is necessary to change from the resource-centered thinking of the past to relationship-centered thinking.
This ecosystem (ecosystem) design canvas will be utilized in the transition to such a platform.
Ecosystem Design Canvas (II)
Platform virtuous cycle structure design
A platform can also be said to be a strategic tool to gain profit through empty space. A platform that dreams of a sustainable growth model by opening, communicating, and filling the unfinished state.
The platform is an 'unoccupied system that has competitiveness by not completing it in advance'. It is like a bowl, and a bowl needs an empty space to use it.
In addition, the platform is a link system like a bridge built on water, and it fills the previously empty space through communication with someone.
This ecosystem (ecosystem) design canvas is used to design the virtuous cycle structure of the ecosystem platform.
