Course dates: 7 - 8 April 2016

www.MDF.NL/COURSE/BMC-NL

Business Model Canvas for Social Enterprises and

Non-profit Organisations an effective tool for

sustainable innovation

Value Proposition Canvas – the tool to investigate the specific customer’s problems, wishes and needs and to develop the ways the company or organisation will or will not address these.

MDF COURSE DESCRIPTION

Business Model Canvas is a visual framework to develop and improve the strategic and operational aspects of an organisation. It enables structured conversations around management, strategy, customers and services. It inspires creative and innovative thinking. The visual character encourages the use of a common language that supports internal and external communication. In this course we use the Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SBMC), specially adapted to social enterprises and non-profit organisations.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Business Model Canvas (BMC), the nine building blocks: value proposition, customer segments, customer relations, channels, key activities, key resources, key partners, costs and revenues

Sustainable Business Model Canvas (SBMC), provides room to social and environmental

impacts and different stakeholders

Value Proposition Canvas (VPC) zooms in on the needs, problems and desires of clients and stakeholders and the organisation’s responding products and services

Canvas in a broader frame: we will introduce you to other approaches to stimulate innovativeness of your organisation

Examples of existing (sustainable) business models and what we can learn from them

Feedback, tips and tricks while using Canvas

Practical application for your own enterprise or organisation

In association with

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN

Learn an effective approach and language to analyse and improve organisational strategies, processes, products and services

Get a better understanding of the interconnectedness of all parts of an

organisation

Determine how your organisation will meet the social and environmental needs and

desires of clients, and a variety of

stakeholders (e.g. beneficiaries, donors or communities)

Create new opportunities to strengthen your

organisation

YOUR PROFILE You are a director, manager, adviser, consultant, or project leader in a non-profit organisation or a social enterprise. Experience in business or entrepreneurship is not essential.

Interested? Get in touch with Ingrid Plag:

ip@mdf.nl or read more on

www.MDF.NL/course/BMC-nl

MDF COURSE DESCRIPTION

TRAINERS Bart Sutorius works at the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), that provides (social) entrepreneurship education at all universities of Amsterdam. He is closely involved with the Canvas-programmes for students at all levels. As a consultant and trainer he also works with Canvas in many other settings, profit and non-profit. Ingrid Plag is managing partner and senior trainer/consultant of MDF Training & Consultancy. She has over 20 years experience in international development, and a solid profile with strategy development, organisational development and change management. Her practical experience with Canvas, in addition to other tools and frameworks, has made her a great supporter of the approach. In this course, she brings in her knowledge of working in multicultural and development-focussed organisations.