Regenerative Business Canvas

How to use this tool:

As a team, write out your big picture vision. Use your Future Vision (tool 3 ) as a reference and summarise fundamental ideas, behaviours and attributes from it for this canvas.

In small groups or individually, capture your ‘vision foundations’ on Post-its. These foundations act as the compost, enabling you to create the right conditions for achieving your vision. It may be helpful to refer to your Stakeholder Ecosystem tool 4 ) and Portfolio of Ideas (tool 8 ).

Once you have added your ‘vision foundations’, ask:

• What is our collaborative advantage? (i.e. how might we join forces with specific mission allies, make use of resources across the ecosystem and learn from existing ideas?)

• Which of these foundations will be easiest, and which will be hardest, to harness?

• Which of these foundations are most stable, and which the least?

As a team, write out your proposition. Your proposition is the unique way in which you hope to achieve (part of) your vision. It is the product, service, idea or experience that you are creating.

In small groups or individually, capture your ‘value proposition’ on Post-its. Your value proposition is what will generate buy-in and encourage investment. Consider the indicators underneath each value type to help you.

Together, discuss your ‘value proposition’ and how you will know if you are generating social, democratic, planetary and financial value. Add these to Post-its in the ‘measures’ section.

What now?

Review your Regenerative Business Canvas and consider whether there are any gaps in knowledge or resource to deliver value. What might you do to address these gaps?

Agree the simplest next steps to address these gaps and move towards the value you would like to deliver.