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The Business Model Canvas Series: The Value Proposition Canvas
Now that you’ve completed your Empathy Map, it’s time to transfer this key information onto The Value Proposition Canvas. This is a section of The Business Model Canvas which can be mapped out as its own canvas. It synthesizes the Value Proposition section and the Customer Segments section of The Business Model Canvas. The map…
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The Business Model Canvas Series: The Empathy Map
When mapping out your business model, the first place to start is with your customer base. A successful business will ultimately design their products or services to solve peoples’ needs and problems, so identifying those customer needs and pain points from the outset is essential. This can be done by using an Empathy Map. …
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The Business Model Canvas Series: Introducing The Business Model Canvas
This is the first blog post in our Business Model Canvas Series which outlines how you can use the canvas to map out your business and what the benefits are. In this post, we’ll provide a brief overview of the key Strategyzer tool called The Business Model Canvas. So, what is The Business…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Start A Podcast For Your Business
This is our fifth month of hosting The Never Settle Podcast and we’ve loved every minute of it! Not only have we had great fun talking to a bunch of creative individuals who challenge the status quo, but we’ve learnt so much about their approaches, their mentalities and what drives them to keep doing what…
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What can we learn from Dutch design?
I recently went on holiday to Amsterdam just before Christmas and was blown away by the city’s creative and vibrant atmosphere. Not only do the Dutch use design extremely well in day to day life, every service I came across was thoughtfully tailored towards the customer and people would go out of their way to…
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My Review of The Service Design Academy Taster Day
On Thursday 11th January, I attended the Service Design Academy Taster Day at Dundee & Angus College. The college is really embracing service design and using it to amplify the way they deliver their course content to learners, and their partnership with Open Change is a prime example of the flourishing Service Design innovation that…
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Dundee in 2018
Shaking off the confines of its industrial past, Dundee has recently transformed itself into a dynamic cultural hub, bustling with creativity and innovation. Having lately made the move from such a large city as Glasgow, I have to say I was overwhelmed by the scope of Dundee’s lively and enterprising community. There’s so much going…
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3 Part Accountancy Blog Series: The Future
The accounting profession has historically been slow to adapt to change, as we’ve seen in our previous two articles in this series. With the pace of technological change increasing rapidly, what does that mean for the future of Accounting? At their global Xerocon conferences in the autumn of 2017, Xero showcased some of the…
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3 Part Accountancy Blog Series: The Present
I’m conscious that this article could read like an obituary, and in many ways that’s exactly what it is. The world of accounting has changed profoundly in the last 25 years. But many accountants are yet to embrace that change, and whilst the old ways of working may have been prosperous for them, their lack…
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3 Part Accountancy Blog Series: The Past
At 9 am on 25th May 1987, I walked into the offices of Turnbull Kemp, Chartered Accountants, in Perth to begin my journey in the world of accounting. I was good at numbers at school, interested in economics and business, and had decided not to go to University, preferring to study on a part-time basis…
