The Inspiration Bank Canvas helps you explore ideas or challenges that could spark a new venture.
It’s a visual space shaped by your interests, passions, experiences, and values. The process helps you find ideas that come from what you genuinely care about and understand.
While focusing on your own interests, you also consider how these challenges could create value for others—whether for people around you, a wider community, an organisation, or the planet. In short, it helps you connect what matters to you with what matters to others.
You will go through a step-by-step process that includes the following stages:
Step 1:
What you value doing and care about
Record what you value being able to do, or what you care about. This may be something that is important to you or something you enjoy.
Step 2:
The challenges/obstacles
Identify challenges related to what you care about, or obstacles that make it difficult to do what you value or enjoy.
Step 3:
Value created by addressing a challenge and who benefits
For each challenge, identify the value created if it is addressed and the possible beneficiaries. Namely, consider the value created for what you care about, but also more broadly for other people, places, or nature. Consider who benefits, including social groups, places, or environments.
Step 4:
Select a challenge to be addressed
Select a challenge for your venture by balancing what you care about with what others may need. Consider which challenge could create the greatest impact (value) and reach if it is addressed. Write a short summary of the selected challenge, the value to be created if it is addressed, and the possible beneficiaries—aim to use some visuals if possible.
