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Five steps to designing an exponential business model



Some years ago, Alex Osterwalder with 100+ collaborators created the Business Model Canvas to provide leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs with a simple tool to design a sustainable business model for their organizations. Recently,Salim Ismail and Francisco Palao led a process with 100+ innovators around the world to design the ExO Canvas, a tool to easily build Exponential Organizations. The combination of both tools, the Business Model Canvas and the ExO Canvas, is a powerful way to design exponential business models.


Reading advice: Designing an exponential business model is key to creating an organization with impact (or output) disproportionately large, at least 10x larger compared to peers, through the use of new organizational techniques that leverage exponential technologies. If you’re just learning about this type of organization, reading this article sequentially will give you all the details you need to get started. If you’re already familiar with the Business Model Canvas, the ExO Canvas and the Exponential Organization model you might want to skip ahead to the section steps to design an exponential business model which focuses on the process.


Read the article by Francisco Palao here:


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