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Business Model Canvas avec exemple, en 10 minutes (modèle d'affaire)

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Business Model Canvas (BMC): Purpose & Strategic Use

  • The video presents the Business Model Canvas as a tool to ensure commercial viability.
  • It helps you:
    • clearly define a business model,
    • explain how it can be evolved over time,
    • and convince investors that the project is viable.

A business model describes how a company:

  • creates value for customers,
  • delivers that value,
  • and captures part of that value to sustain the business financially.

The Business Model Canvas: 9 Blocks (with the Body Shop example)

The BMC is organized around four pillars: customers, supply, infrastructure, and financial viability.

1) Customer Segments (customer base)

  • Define who buys and pays (start with the target segments).
  • Segments should share:
    • needs,
    • behaviors,
    • attributes,
    • and can be served using similar channels and communications.

Example (Body Shop):

  • Women who are environmentally conscious, especially about animal welfare
  • Beauty/skincare matters less than not harming nature

2) Value Proposition (offer)

Answer per segment:

  • What needs are met?
  • What problems remain solved?
  • What products/services do it?
  • What promise is made?

Example (Body Shop):

  • Cosmetics with an environmental approach and a guarantee of no animal testing
  • Buyers adopt brand values (activism)

3) Channels (distribution & touchpoints)

  • Channels act as a “bridge” between the value proposition and customer segments.
  • Consider channel tradeoffs: time to execute and profitability.
  • Include after-sales service.
  • Examples: e-commerce, mass retail, phone prospecting, email, social media, own stores/network.

Example (Body Shop):

  • A network of stores plus a franchise system for international growth
  • An online store to complement physical locations

4) Customer Relationships

  • How you connect with customers and what the relationship costs look like.
  • Goal: drive repeat purchases and turn customers into brand ambassadors.

Example themes:

  • Focus on longer-term relationships
  • Use psychomarketing

Example (Body Shop):

  • Communication grounded in activism rather than product-only advertising, such as:
    • animal protection
    • anti-stereotyping around women’s thinness
    • combating domestic violence, etc.

5) Revenue Streams

  • How the company captures value (not just “price”).
  • Common forms:
    • one-time transactions
    • subscriptions
    • tiered offers (multiple levels)
    • freemium models (free first, then paid after a trial)

Example (Body Shop):

  • Revenue from:
    • master franchisees and franchisees
    • product sales via physical stores and e-commerce
    • franchise license royalties

6) Key Resources

  • The critical assets needed for the model (people, skills, equipment, IP, networks).
  • Resources should be indispensable and managed to generate few costs.

Example (Body Shop):

  • Staff expertise
  • Financial resources
  • Unique product formulas
  • A network of several thousand stores

7) Key Activities

  • Core actions required to deliver the value proposition and serve target segments.

Example (Body Shop):

  • Create and distribute fair trade products aligned with environmental standards
  • Manage the store network
  • Communicate the brand

8) Key Partners

  • Essential partners/suppliers needed to run the model (including outsourced components).

Example (Body Shop):

  • Franchisees worldwide
  • Partnerships to produce and sell according to brand standards
  • 130+ suppliers across ~20 countries

9) Cost Structure

  • Identify major costs.
  • Recognize interdependencies across blocks, for example:
    • Channels affect costs
    • The value proposition influences resources/partners/activities

Example (Body Shop):

  • Production costs
  • Store costs
  • Personnel costs
  • Communication campaign costs
  • R&D / new product development costs, etc.

Framework Takeaways / Actionable Workflow (Implied)

Build the canvas block by block, but ensure alignment across blocks:

  • Channels ↔ Cost structure
  • Value proposition ↔ Revenue streams
  • Value proposition ↔ Resources / partners / activities

Then run the exercise “for your organization” to produce a coherent model with 9 interdependent blocks.

Key Metrics & KPIs Mentioned (from the example)

  • 130+ suppliers
  • ~20 countries
  • Several thousand stores

No explicit financial KPIs (e.g., revenue, CAC, LTV, churn, margins, targets) were stated.

Presenters / Sources

  • Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pilleur (inventors of the Business Model Canvas)
  • They are cited as original authors.
  • No specific presenter name appears in the provided subtitles.

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