Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas pattern creates elements and a Business Model Canvas diagram using Boundaries and Classes. The Canvas is a visual board and strategic management tool for developing new or documenting existing business models. It records the important aspects of the business model including the Value Proposition, Customer Relationships, Key Partners, Key Activities, Channels, Cost Structures, Revenue Streams and more.

Figure 1. A Class diagram used to create a Business Model Canvas including element in each cell of the canvas.
Discussion
The purpose of the pattern is to allow Business Analysts and other stakeholders to create a map of a business based on nine criteria that are centered around a value proposition. Elements can be added to each cell of the canvas and then related to each other to show how the elements work as a whole.

A Business Model Canvas can be used as a tool for planning and to diagnose issue with an existing business model. It can be created early on in an initiative as a map to guide the evolution of a business or it can be used to determine issues in an existing and functioning business. It can be used as a blueprint or guide to implement a strategy.

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the diagram to suit the initiative.
Change the name of the elements on the canvas to suit the initiative.
Remove or create additional elements as needed.
Adjust the size of the boundaries to suit the number of elements in each cell.

The following is a list of some of the next steps available when applying the pattern.
·	Trace relationships can be created between elements on the canvas and up-process elements such as goals and drivers and down-process elements such as User Stories Requirements, Services and Components.
The items on the canvas can be related to elements on other canvases such as a Value Proposition Canvas.
Connectors can be added to elements to reflect relationships between elements either in the same cell or in different cells.
High quality documentation can be generated automatically from the repository including a wall chart of the Canvas using large format paper.
Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Business Model Canvas
Boundary
Class
Element Appearance
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
Traceability Tools
Documentation

The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic or the more general topic on Model Publishing.
Element Discussions
The Element Discussion facility is a fully featured collaboration tool allowing modelers and model viewers and reviewers to communicate with each other directly inside the repository. Modelers using the full client or occasional viewers using WebEA can both post and reply to discussions and communicate and engage in chat. For more details see the Element Discussions help topic.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with any element type in a spreadsheet or word process view. It is particularly useful when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic.
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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