9 questions for your business model

Activity perspective

PARTNERS

   Archives, other collection owners

What can partners do better than you or at a lower cost (and thus leverage your business model)?

KEY ACTIVITIES

   Digitizing
   Metadata Management
   Digital Preservation Management

What are your key activities and how difficult are they to perform (by others)?

KEY RESOURCES

   Digital Collections (information assets)
   Repository

What are your key resources and how difficult are they to copy (by others)?

Offer perspective

VALUE PROPOSITION

   Long term access to digital heritage information

Which one of your customers's problems are you solving and why will he work with you rather than with a competitor?

 
Client perspective

RELATIONSHIPS

   face-to-face
   online customer
   feeding communities

What type of relationship does your customer expect you to establish and maintain with him?

DISTRIBUTION & ACQUISITION CHANNELS

   website
   partner websites

Through which means does your customer want to be reached and addressed by you?

CUSTOMERS

   general public
   research institutes
   partners
   funders

Who are your customers? what are your customers’ needs, desires and ambitions?

 

COST STRUCTURE

   acquistion costs
   digitizing costs
   collection management
   preservation management

What is the cost structure of your business model and is it in harmony with the core idea of your business model?

Financial perspective
 

REVENUE STREAMS / PRICING

   branding
   public appreciation
   network expansion

What value are your customers really willing to pay for and how will they pay for it?