About
A free tool, born from practice
The AI Canvas is free, printable and adaptable. It belongs to the people who use it.
The origin
The question comes up in almost every training session. It often arrives at the coffee break, a little sheepishly: “OK, I get that AI is powerful. But in practice, what do we actually use it for here?”
Not a naive question. The most honest question a manager can ask. The AI Canvas is a field-tested answer: a tool to flip the approach and start from real work rather than from the technology.
The author
Sébastien Bélisle has led the Carrefour jeunesse-emploi d’Abitibi-Ouest (a youth employment centre) for 25 years and has taught strategic leadership in the Executive MBA at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue for 12 years.
He is co-founder of KODRA Conseil, comments on AI news for Radio-Canada and publishes the newsletter Humains Augmentés.
KODRA Conseil
KODRA Conseil helps organizations solve complex problems through collective intelligence and trains teams to use AI at work.
The AI Canvas is freely available. If you want to go further (a facilitated workshop, training, mapping your use cases), KODRA is here.
License
The AI Canvas is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). You can copy, print, translate and adapt it, including for commercial purposes, on two conditions: credit the source and share your adaptations under the same license.
The AI Canvas is a variant of the Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, released by Strategyzer under a CC BY-SA license. It does not reproduce the Value Proposition Canvas, which remains the property of Strategyzer AG; it draws inspiration from it.
The article
The tool is presented in detail in the reference article: where it comes from, the sorting matrix and how to run a first workshop.
References
- Osterwalder, A., & Pigneur, Y. (2010). Business Model Generation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y., Bernarda, G., & Smith, A. (2014). Value Proposition Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (Law 25), S.Q. 2021, c. 25.
A question, an adaptation, a workshop?
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