Posts Tagged ‘model’

Draw Your Business Model – Alex Osterwalder & Xplane

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Visual thinking and visual explanations are finding their feet in traditional business thinking, slowly yet surely.

Alex Osterwalder is the author @ http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/ and has created this presentation about drawing your business model along with Xplane – the leader’s in Visual Communication. :)

The presentation needs to be seen in full screen mode.

It shows how can a business model be drawn and raises a pertinent question as to why should it be drawn?

Look at the slide containing the complete business model. It is one snapshot covering the entire business and try thinking of it words and you’d have your business plan.

1 Slide = The complete Business Model. That’s the power of Visual Thinking. :)

How do apply it to our lives, apart from just Business, is now long overdue and is a presentation from Ken Watanabe’s book – Problem Solving 101. Hang on people! It is on its way! :)

Thinking Visually

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Discovered this extremely powerful presentation about “Thinking Visually“.

Highlights some crucial aspects of thinking visually in 4 “M”s:

  • Metaphor
  • Model
  • Mindmap &
  • Manifest

as well as 6 steps to Thinking Visually:

  • Empathize – See the world as a child – Observe, Ask & Explore
  • Memorize – Commit thoughts to memory
  • Analyze – Take a step back
  • Synthesize – Filter signal from noise
  • Visualize – See it, then do it
  • Materialize – Make it tangible, make it stick
    • The 4C’s of Community
      • Content
      • Context
      • Connectivity
      • Continuity

Why does Visual Communication matter?

  • Getting attention quickly
  • Help to learn faster & more effectively
  • Let people do their own thinking
  • Helps to tell stories