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Your guide for Business Design

Learn everything you need to turn business ideas into revenue.

Table of Contents

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We publish everything you need to close the gap between new business ideas and first revenue. This knowledge base is comprised of 100+ tightly edited pages designed to share everything you should know about Business Design.

Introduction
Start with our introduction to the world of Business Design if you are a newbie to this topic.
Roles
Learn about the collaboration of various roles within Business Design projects to design your next innovation.
Process
Build and validate your innovation despite extreme uncertainties in a structured process.
Prototyping
Prototype your way to success: Validate your ideas and change how your team thinks, feels and acts.
Management System
Orchestrate the entire end-to-end innovation process and multiple projects in a management system.

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Discovering Customers

Discovering Customers

This article is for sprint teams just starting their activities to better understand their custom...

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Tools for IoT Prototyping

Tools for IoT Prototyping

Here we show some of the tools we use for lean prototyping. It depends a lot on personal preferen...

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Picture of the Future

Picture of the Future

This article is for advanced Business Designers, who want to bring their Business Design projects...

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We are a group of engaged innovation practitioners and scientists who keep adding fresh content week by week based on our real-life experience in corporates and universities throughout Europe.

  • I build management systems for innovation and make sure that Business Design is a consistent and practical framework to truly enable innovators

    • - building systems for innovation management
    • - designing future scenarios
    • - coaching entrepreneurs and managers
    Bernhard Doll
    Bernhard Doll
    Business Design Maverick
  • The value of Business Design develops when being thought in a broader context of an organisation by

    • - linking picture of the future and strategy to innovation initiatives
    • - designing mgmt. systems that serve humans
    • - allowing organisations to learn from own behaviour
    Kai Dierkesmann
    Kai Dierkesmann
    Innovation Mgmt. System Designer
  • Coaching innovation teams has a substantial impact on what teams can achieve. I help teams to

    • - address their challenges
    • - work under extrem uncertainty
    • - stay focused and clear on the business innovation objectives
    Danny Locher
    Danny Locher
    Business Design Coach
  • Customer research in theory sounds simple, in practice it’s quite a challenge. I love to

    • - create research setups
    • - understand customers in detail
    • - analyse results to derive implications for Business Design

    Sabine Schön
    Sabine Schön
    Business Design Field Researcher
  • I enable teams to turn initial ideas into real revenue. My focus is to support teams to

    • - discover golden nuggets
    • - design business models with "magic"
    • - validate them under real conditions

    Karl Rabes
    Karl Rabes
    Business Design Coach
  • I build prototypes to help teams to test their hypothesis in their business models. But also to spark trust, identification, excitement and love. I build

    • - landing pages, mock-ups, click-dummies
    • - and even full-blown lean offerings / MVPs
    • - which we test with real customers and users
    Markus Sorg
    Markus Sorg
    Business Design Prototyper

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Business Design Network Meeting #10

Meet fellow business designer, innovation manager and innovation thought leaders for an open exch... Learn more

Certificate Program "Business Design and Innovation"

Our "Certificate Program Business Design & Innovation" (in cooperation with TU München) is a spec... Learn more

Training Deep Dive "Innovation Resilience"

Our 1-day training on "innovation resilience" is tailored around the human side of innovation man... Learn more

Executive impulse ‘The ability to innovate’

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Tools & Templates

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More than 10+ in hundreds of innovation projects battle-tested tools and templates you can use in your next Business Design Sprint. For free!

Business Model Template Hypotheses & Experiments Template Lean Offerings Template Action Plan Template