Why Strategyzer?

Continuing the conversation: Globally proven tools and models from Strategyzer + Alex Osterwalder 

This page provides useful links and materials to help you discover and develop skills using Strategyzer’s various integrated visual innovation tools. A visual Business Model Canvas becomes a picture that can be worth a thousand words when it comes to telling the story of where you are and where you want to go.

The Background

Dr. Alex Osterwalder’s PhD thesis became so popular as it was passed around business circles that it eventually became the bestselling “Business Model Generation,” which launched the Business Model Canvas as a primary tool for sketching and designing new business models, and a movement away from 30-page, untested “business plans” that can become anchors dragging down the process of innovation within companies.

The Progression:

• A complete innovation design ecosystem - Since its publication in 2010, Business Model Generation has become the core of an entire business model design and testing methodology, followed by Value Proposition Design, Testing Business Ideas, The Invincible Company, and High Impact Tools for Teams.

• An online platform to support innovation teams - Strategyzer has digitized all its tools into a subscription model in which teams can collaborate long-distance in real-time.

• Virtual training Masterclasses and Coaching Boot Camps - To jump start learning for those new to the Strategyzer tools and models, the company offers a variety of live training series as well as an on-demand set of classes expanding on and leading people through the books and showing how all the pieces work together as well as deep dives into the processes innovators are using in top global companies to transform entire industries.

The Connection:

• Professional Development - At CHIME Innovation, we are partnering with Strategyzer to learn and use these tools in our own nonprofit organization, as well as to offer collaboration opportunities to our CHIME Members and other provider leaders who are driving innovation in their organizations.

• Helping Grow a Network of Evidence-based Innovation Practitioners - We are investing time and thought into absorbing and mastering the Strategyzer training in order to grow as a trusted resource for approaching innovation not as a flashy form of theater, but a true professional discipline of evidence-based practice.

• Curated Resources and a Map for Exploring the Strategyzer Ecosystem - The videos, links, and PDFs we are collecting and sharing on this page are offered as a starting point for innovators new to these books and tools. Please feel free to contact us and “geek out” on the details, or just discuss ways we might be able to bring engaging learning opportunities to you in the form of events, workshops, and webinars. We look forward to sharing the journey with you, and supporting you at whatever point you are in your own path, not as experts but as fellow travelers learning together and moving toward a common future that will affect us all and our loved ones.