Introduction & Standards: Business Model Canvas - Final

Learning Goal: Create a business that resolves a real need, through the business model canvas.

It is the final project for Introduction to Business. In just one short semester, students are now ready to take full ownership of their learning and create a new business that leads to flourishing in one of the four relationships for flourishing.

Students will use their knowledge of the business model canvas to create a completely new company that leads to thriving and flourishing. This particular portion of the class is the culmination of all the class work. It is the final without it formally being a final.

Students will be creating a solution to a real problem in the world. So students choose, they can take Entrepreneurship: Restoration class down the road and implement your idea as a part of their senior service project.

Department Standards (for the unit)

Being

1. Express their Love of the Lord in the way he has gifted them to create, connect, and capture value.

2. Know God Created Them by reflecting His image through the work of creating, caring (maintaining), and commissioning (engaging others).

4. Value Learning, by engaging in real work that meets a real need for a real audience.

5. Find Joy in the process of developing the correctives for God’s intended creation.

6. Honor the Lord by engaging the world through restoring relationships with God, relationships with others, relationships with creation and knowledge of self

7. Cultivate their experience through the work Jesus sets before them.

Doing

1. [Creating] Create, Connect, and Capture value that leads to restorative organizations

3. [Communicating] Write and present clear and effective messaging with passion and purpose.

4. [Organizing] Promote clear systems for the delivery of projects that leads to stakeholder satisfaction.

5. [Analyzing and Interpreting] Get to the heart of complex issues through analytical thinking and application.

8. [Performing] - Achieve personal goals and approach tasks with a growth mindset.

Knowing

1.The components of create, connect, and capture.

[create] sustainable opportunities for people to thrive and flourish.
[connect] people to embrace an organizations created value.
[capture] the money made and impact achieved through the organization's mission.

2. Faith and Work: Impacting the world for Jesus Christ requires flourishing in 4 relationships: God, Self, Neighbor, and Creation.

3. Impact: Organizations impact the world and people around them through exploitation or restoration. (Nothing is neutral.)

4. Image Bearer: The purpose of an image bearer in work is to create, care, and commission.

6. Business Plan: Identify the relationship between the elements of a business plan and how they impact people.

Sub-Standards for Depth of Knowledge

Determine who the best customer segment is.
Develop a product and value proposition for a specific customer segment.
Determine the best method for distributing a product.
Create a plan for building relationships with customers.
Determine the revenue streams and cost structure that will lead to a sustainable business.
Determine the keys (activities, resources, and partners) needed to create the value proposition.

Grading

Business Model Canvas Creation

Choose a problem (10 Points for Identification)
Complete a Product Canvas (10 Points for Completion)
Business Overview - 20 points - Develop a business plan in a sentence, logo and slogan.
Customer Segments - 10 points
Value Proposition - 10 points
Channels - 10 points
Customer Relationships - 20 points
Revenue Streams - 10 points
Key Resources, Activities & Partnerships - 10 Points
Cost Structure - 10 Points
Create & Present a slide deck for your product (25 Points)