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Your guide for Business Design

Learn everything you need to turn business ideas into revenue.

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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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Process

Process

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Innovation System Builder

Innovation System Builder

For those of you who face the exciting challenge to develop an innovation (management) system wit...

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Validating Hypotheses

Validating Hypotheses

After identifying core hypotheses in the Design Workshop (or optionally in the Validate Workshop)...

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  • 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 & Innovation Masterclass

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1. Business Design Workshop „CONNECTING THE DOTS“

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Business Design Certificate Program, Batch 2/23

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Tools & Templates

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