The Canvas Directory
Strategy canvases.
The whole-business canvases: model it, adapt it for missions and platforms, pitch it in three minutes.
Business Model Canvas
Nine boxes that hold a whole business on one page. The canvas the others descend from.
by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (Strategyzer), 2010 · strategyzer.com
Lean Canvas
The Business Model Canvas rebuilt for startups: problems and unfair advantage instead of partners and relationships.
by Ash Maurya (LEANSTACK), 2010 · leanspark.ai
Mission Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas for organizations that don't sell anything: mission achievement instead of revenue.
by Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder (Strategyzer), 2016 · strategyzer.com
Platform Design Toolkit
Canvases for businesses that connect people instead of just serving them: ecosystems, not pipelines.
by Simone Cicero (Boundaryless), 2013
Social Business Model Canvas
The business model canvas rebuilt for social enterprises: impact measures and surplus sit beside revenue.
by Social Innovation Lab (Tandemic), 2013
The Pitch Canvas
Everything a three-minute pitch needs, brainstormed on one page before anyone opens the slide tool.
by David Beckett (Best 3 Minutes), 2014 · best3minutes.com
Futures Wheel
A change in the middle, its direct consequences in the first ring, and their consequences in the second, where the surprises live.
by Jerome C. Glenn, 1971
5 Bold Steps Vision Canvas
Seven boxes that turn a vision statement into five sequenced, bold actions.
by David Sibbet & The Grove Consultants International
Blank Canvas
One open sheet with no imposed structure, for building a bespoke tool or parking loose ideas.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business)
Bounded Context Canvas
A Business-Model-Canvas-style one-pager for one software service's purpose, roles, and contracts.
by ddd-crew & Kenny Baas & Kim Lindhard & Michael Plöd & Maxime Sanglan-Charlier, 2019
Business Landscape Canvas
A six-round workshop building a shared current-state and future-state view, plus the forces around change.
by Austin Govella (PXD.GD)
Category Design Canvas
A six-cell canvas for naming and justifying a market category, not just positioning a product in one.
by Hans-Jörg Roser (H&F Solutions)
Context Canvas (DABB variant)
Eight zones mapping the outside forces acting on a company, built to be revisited, not filed.
by David Sibbet & The Grove Consultants International
Cover Story Vision Canvas
Seven boxes that design the magazine cover story your boldest future would earn.
by David Sibbet & The Grove Consultants International
Cynefin Framework
Sorts a situation into Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, or Confused, so the response actually matches the problem.
by Dave Snowden (The Cynefin Company), 1999
Design Criteria Canvas
A MoSCoW grid that turns a vision into non-negotiable, SMART criteria before you build.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business)
The Experiment Library
A 44-experiment reference poster, sorted by Discovery/Validation phase, for picking the right test for an assumption.
by David J. Bland & Alexander Osterwalder (Strategyzer AG), 2019
Goal Mapping
A four-round exercise that turns a room of individual wishes into a short, ranked list of shared goals.
by Austin Govella (PXD.GD)
Innovation Matrix
A 2x2 that filters an idea pool toward substantial change, not just easy wins.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business)
Innovation Metrics Framework
A three-level scorecard — hypothesis, business model, portfolio — for judging innovation work at the right altitude.
by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur & Alan Smith & Frederic Etiemble (Strategyzer AG), 2020
Investment Readiness Level
A nine-rung ladder of evidence a venture climbs before it's ready to raise.
by Steve Blank (Design a Better Business), 2013
Storytelling Canvas
Eight boxes that build a business narrative with a before-and-after, not a slide deck.
by Patrick van der Pijl & Business Models Inc. (Design a Better Business)
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