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Alex Osterwalder
Yves Pigneur
Value Preposition Canvas
Who is your customer?
Customer Jobs
• What functional jobs is your customer trying get done?
• What social jobs is your customer trying to get done?
• What emotional jobs is your customer trying get done?
• What basic needs is your customer trying to satisfy?
Customer Pains
• What does your customer find too costly?
• What makes your customer feel bad?
• How are current solutions underperforming for your customer?
• What are the main difficulties and challenges your customer encounters?
• What negative social consequences does your customer encounter or fear?
• What risks does your customer fear?
• What’s keeping your customer awake at night?
• What common mistakes does your customer make?
• What barriers are keeping your customer from adopting solutions?
Customer Gains
• Which savings would make your customer happy?
• What outcomes does your customer expect and what would go beyond his/her
expectations?
• How do current solutions delight your customer?
• What would make your customer’s job or life easier?
• What positive social consequences does your customer desire?
• What are customers looking for?
• What do customers dream about?
• How does your customer measure success and failure?
• What would increase the likelihood of adopting a solution?
What is your product?
Product Relievers
• ... produce savings?
• ... make your customers feel better?
• ... fix underperforming solutions?
• ... put an end to difficulties and challenges your customers encounter?
• ... wipe out negative social consequences your customers encounter or fear?
• ... eliminate risks your customers fear?
• ... help your customers better sleep at night?
• ... limit or eradicate common mistakes customers make?
• ... get rid of barriers that are keeping your customer from adopting solutions?
Gain Creators
• ...create savings that make your customer happy?
• ... produce outcomes your customer expects or that go beyond their expectations?
• ... copy or outperform current solutions that delight your customer?
• ... make your customer’s job or life easier?
• ... create positive social consequences that your customer desires?
• ... do something customers are looking for?
• ... fulfill something customers are dreaming about?
• ... produce positive outcomes matching your customers success and failure
criteria?
• ... help make adoption easier?
An Example
• Online wedding planning platform
• Yellow for wedding couple
• Green for service providers
10 Questions to assess your value proposition
• Is it embedded in a great business model?
• Does it focus on the most important jobs, most extreme pains, and most essential gains?
• Does it focus on unsatisfied jobs, unresolved pains, and unrealized gains?
• Does it concentrate on only a few pain relievers and gain creators but does those
extremely well?
• Does it address functional, emotional and social jobs all together?
• Does it align with how customers measure success?
• Does it focus on jobs, pains or gains that a large number of customers have or for which a
small number are willing to pay a lot of money?
• Does it differentiate from competition in a meaningful way?
• Does it outperform competition substantially on at least one dimension?
• Is it difficult to copy?
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