Both business ideas and ongoing companies can be evaluated by using Lean Canvas. 

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What can Lean Canvas give you?

- a comprehensive idea evaluation,

- a brief project profile presentation,

- an easier business idea presentation to the potential investors.


Advantages of the method:

- correct product, target group, consumers, marketing strategies ,

- assessment of external business conditions (competitors and market niches),

- bankruptcy and legal entities/sole proprietors termination risk minimising,

- a comprehensive project assessment and analysing of main parametres.


How to use the method:

It is necessary to fill in a table of nine items in a certain order

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 is the order you fill in

Risk types:

product risk: failure in product forming, the problem was overrated, a bad decision was met, misinterpretation of success conditions;

customer risk: failure in choosing target client group or segment, failure in choosing product information channels;

market risk: external circumstances were underrated or overrated, offers of competitors are unbeatable, no market spaces, no profit prospective or too expensive market entering.

Learn Canvas method application 

No.

Stage

Actions

Result

A

B

C

D

1

Setting a goal

Filling in and analyzing unit 1 “Problems (current alternatives)”, bottom part. Defining at least 3 problems, market challenges the company can face (Z: no definite product is manufactured in our city)

Taking into consideration company purpose, its feasibility, whether it is overrated

2

Market conditions

Filling in and analyzing unit 1 “Problems (current alternatives)”, bottom part. What are current solutions for these problems (Z: demanded products are shipped from other places, using alternative products, customers can produce this product by their own)

Competitiveness defining of the potential company

3

Minimum (up-to-date) market volume

Filling in and analyzing unit 1 “Customer (first Clients)”, bottom part. Defining customer category (amount, composition, constant demand), who need the product. (Z: who needs this product)

Understanding customers

4

Maximum (potential) market volume

Filling in and analyzing unit 1 “Customer (first target Clients)”, top part. Defining regular customers (amount, composition, constant demand). Who can buy the product? (Z: Who buys alternative goods? Who is your potential client?)

Understanding customers, scale assessment

5

Competitiveness

Filling in and analyzing unit 2 “UVP (Unique Value Proposition)”. Defining whether the Proposition is unique. Why shall the consumer choose your product? (Z: better price-quality relationship, better lifetime, better features, multi-purpose)

Understanding customers’ needs and market features

6

Sphere key features

Filling in and analyzing unit 3 “Solutions”. Possible problem solutions (Z: demanded products production plan, final assembling from purchased templates)

Planning future activities of the company

7

Marketing

Filling in and analyzing unit 4 Channels (contacting the customer). Defining the ways a future client can find the company

Considering all ways to give information to clients, target client accessibility

8

Costs

Filling in and analyzing unit 5 Cost Structure (contacting the customer). Costs, cost for client capture, operational costs, most expensive actions and resources

Understanding business

9

Revenue

Filling in and analyzing unit 5 Revenue, revenue structure and cost balance, recurrent processes, value creation steps

10

Efficiency assessment

Filling in and analyzing unit 6 KPI (key performance indicator). Company efficiency control methods,

Anticipating understanding of tendencies and proactive reaction to negative tendencies


SINGLE-PROFILE CITY SAZONOVO

SINGLE-PROFILE CITY SAZONOVO

Industry: Отрасль

Contact

Information about the object

Gas supply

Absent

Water disposal

Absent

Water supply

Absent

Heat supply

Absent

Power supply

Absent

Information about the object

OBJECT INFORMATION

Sazonovo is a work settlement in Chagoda District of Vologda Region on the bank of the Pes' river.

 Gas supply

 Water disposal

 Water supply

 Heating

 Power supply

AREA

The total area is 506.4 ha.

Industrial land area is 35 ha;

Forest area is 20.08 ha;

Area of other lands is 398.3 ha.

TRANSPORT

A-114 Vologda-Tikhvin federal motorway

-P-21 motorway "Kola";

Ogarevo railway station of the Oktyabrskaya railway.

THE LARGEST ENTERPRISES

"Ruscam Glass Packaging Holding" LLC
Manufacturer of glass packaging items

"Sazonovsky bread-baking plant" Consumer cooperative
Manufacturer of bakery and confectionery products

"Belokrestsky butter-making plant" OJSC
Manufacturer of milk and dairy products

MINERAL RESOURCES

Limestones and dolomites - 18,881,000 m3
(Maryino-Letushtinskoe mined deposit)

Peat - 953,000 m3
(Oleshninskoe deposit (vacant);

Quartz sand for use in glass industry - 1,048,000 m3
(Southwestern site of Sazonovsky deposit (vacant);

Quartz sand for use in glass industry - 916,000 m3
(Northeastern site of Sazonovsky deposit (vacant);

PROMISING AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

Production enterprises

Road service facilities (cafe, motel, maintenance station, store)

Medical centre (wider range of paid medical services)

Child education centre (child education clubs, sport clubs)


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