Design thinking for business growth
Ecosystem Design Tools
D_Ecosystem Design Canvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Documentation of the core value proposition and customer needs.
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Describe potential actors for the business ecosystem.
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Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of individual actors in an ecosystem variant.
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Perform a definition of the value streams.
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Consider business models multidimensional.
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Document individual iterations and variants of a business ecosystem.
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Record the minimum values ​​for a Minimum Viable Ecosystem (MVE).
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E_Growth & Scale CAnvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Plan suitable steps and measures to scale the solution.
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Check an expansion of the value proposition and validate it on the basis of new or changed customer needs.
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Activities initiate processes and bring IT to data analytics in line with growth.
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Initialize optimizations with regard to the cost structure.
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Validate ideas for expanding the value streams.
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Make adjustments to governance through to ecosystem culture.
F_Reflection Canvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Gather and process experience in the project in a structured manner.
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Learn from the experience and use it for the next project.
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Enable positive handling of mistakes and appreciate good progress.
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Identify, document, apply and ultimately make use of knowledge.
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Carry out a reflection on the respective Design Lenses.
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Provide orientation for the procedure per se (Lessons Learned Meta-Level) and for the initiative (Lessons Learned Initiative) on which you have actually worked.
Worksheets Ecosystem strategy
A1_Design Principles
What you can do with the tool:
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Already at the start of the project, put a clear focus on a certain mindset or requirements for the ecosystem.
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Give the team a common understanding of the assignment so that everyone has the same understanding.
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Provide guidance so that decisions in the design team can be made more quickly.
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Define general characteristics that should be treated with a higher priority.
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Develop a guideline that ensures that future design challenges will be based on the same overarching principles.
A2_Initiatives Matrix
What you can do with the tool:
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Outline what strategic initiatives are planned for the future.
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In the Include considerations of what new products and services will be launched.
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Recognize which programs, products or initiatives are being planned in individual sub-markets, other regions or countries.
A3_Cooperations Matrix
What you can do with the tool:
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Analyze which partnerships and connections already exist with other companies.
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Connections with other companies are categorized into, for example, the same industry, industry-related or non-industry.
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Draw conclusions which skills may already be in an existing part
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Examine potential partners and business relationships that are helpful for the design, construction or implementation of the ecosystem.
A4_Topic Areas Matrix
What you can do with the tool:
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Visualize the current situation of one or more of the business ecosystem in a topic of certain initiators or competitors.
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Outline connections and respective participation of actors in one
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Identify value proposition across the various dimensions
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Discuss potential actors in the system.
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Explore potential white spots for initiatives or participation in an ecosystem.
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a5_PESTLE Ecosystems
What you can do with the tool:
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Unnderstand the market and business position of your own company and the
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Evaluate a topic or an ecosystem strategy and ways to shape the ecosystem.
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Get an overview of external influences that could potentially affect an ecosystem initiative.
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Make more precise and informed decisions.
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Create the basis for a decision document for committees.
A6_How to Win & Configure
What you can do with the tool:
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Make the configurations that are crucial for the business ecosystem.
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Develop a configuration suitable for the ecosystem initiative and role (e.g. initiator or active participant).
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Deal with the elements that are critical to success, from the strategic focus to customer interaction and organizational design.
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Describe elements of the configuration precisely in order to obtain clarity about the intention and goal achievement.
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Compare different configurations based on the ecosystem configuration grid and make the advantages and disadvantages transparent.
Worksheets Ecosystem Design
D1_Core Value Proposition
What you can do with the tool:
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Initiate a common starting point for the design of the ecosystem.
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Discuss the value proposition statement with other actors in the system or share the value proposition with the partners prior to co-creation activities.
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Record needs, the customer segments and the solution for the entire MVE system.
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Take a point of view from the customers / users as well as the respective actors.
D2_Actors Descriptions
What you can do with the tool:
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Obtain an overview of the potential actors and their capabilities who are to be active in the ecosystem.
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Compare whether existing partnerships can be used that give quick access to skills, offers and other assets.
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Carry out an initial assessment of the actors' fit to the defined core value proposition.
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Evaluate what influence the respective actors could have on the ecosystem.
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D3_Value Streams mapping
What you can do with the tool:
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Design a functioning system that generates a higher return on investment than the individual actors.
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Create a network of relationships that allows ecosystem capital to be embarrassed.
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Create systems that go beyond the mere exchange of products, services and money.
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Configure the interaction of the value streams in such a way that the system is initially viable.
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Master the complexity with a definition of the respective value streams.
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Worksheets Reflection
F1_Retrospective Sailboat
What you can do with the tool:
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Improve team interactions and collaboration - in a fast, targeted, appreciative and structured way.
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Take a "RETRO", so look back to see what went well and what could be improved.
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Reflect which factors can be changed and which are to be accepted.
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Promote a positive atmosphere, as all team members are heard and can contribute, which in turn promotes the mindset of self-organized teams.
F2_I like..., I wish...
What you can do with the tool:
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It is firmly anchored in the team as a feedback ritual in which only "I like, I wish" or supplemented with "I wonder" is allowed as feedback (IL / IW / IW for short).
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Celebrate small successes achieved through an iteration, a prototype or in a test.
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Make it a part of the reflection and the brainstorming, for example expanded with "What if ..." and an ideas park.
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Give and receive feedback in both written and spoken form.
F3_Feedback-Capture-Grid
What you can do with the tool:
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Test the first prototypes, MVP or MVE quickly and easily using four defined questions.
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Record, collect and cluster test results in writing.
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Sharpen theses on problems as well as solutions, personas and ideas and develop prototypes on the basis of the findings.
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Write down feedback on ideas, presentations, etc. in a structured manner.
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B1-50_Design Thinking Tools
50 additional templates for Design Lense Design Thinking are available in "The Design Thinking Toolbook".
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A_strategy canvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Continuously document the results from the iterative process models in dynamic strategy development.
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Answer strategic questions regarding "Where to Play" and "How to Win & Configure".
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Make the vision of the business ecosystem transparent.
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Communicate clear statements about value proposition, roles, skills and governance.
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Find and implement a balance between "Explore" and "Exploit".
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Plan for scaling and exponential growth.
B_Design Thinking Canvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Document the appropriate problem.
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Describe the starting point and trends for a topic, need or problem at the start of the project.
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Record important findings from the problem and solution area and share them with other teams.
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Document critical items (function and experience) and findings from the exploration maps.
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Document the results of the Design Thinking iterations, including recording defined vision prototypes.
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Initialize requirements for an MVP and planning for the backlog.
C_Lean Start-up canvas
What you can do with the canvas:
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Create a good understanding of the initial situation with regard to persona, top 3 challenges and use cases.
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Record the vision and roadmap for the development.
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Document results from the pivot.
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Record the innovation accounting and schedule.
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Prioritize top features.
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Docuemnt findings from Build-Measure-Learn.
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Develop one or more MVPs for a potential business ecosystem quickly and agile.