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ALISS Business Plan Sheet
1. Building your business plan
Use the sheet provided to ‘stick up’ your thinking so your grand finale on Friday afternoon. There are tools on the
group can build a concrete business plan. It doesn’t have to table provided to help you with yours ideas. You will find
be perfect, this sheet can be messy. The idea is this sheet some storyboards, blueprint exercises, newspaper templates,
will help you to pull all your thoughts together. It will help and ‘eco system’ maps, attach these to this sheet as you
you work towards creating a fantastic presentation for the complete them, it will work towards a final business plan.
Name Logo Service Blueprint Ecosystem Money matters
What is your service called? Use this space to doodle. Show us what your logo might Use the template provided and attach here when completed Use the template provided and attach when completed A space for you to think about the pennies
look like
Our Eco-system Website
www.apple.com
Are there any points or processes where your
How does the user become aware of How does the user join? What happens when they are using it?
This template is to help you draft out what Applications People service needs to spend money (e.g. pay an organ-
is involved in your idea. Take Apple for iphone/ipad applications Instore helpers
the service? What physical things do they get when How are they interacting with the
example.
iser to co-ordinate a volunteer team; hire a hall for
What channels make users aware? they join? service? Software
itunes
Places
Apple Stores meet-ups; fund petrol expenses for volunteer driv-
How might your idea’s ‘ecosystem’ look?
Keep adding to it throughout the day! Product
ers, etc.)?
(iphone, ipod)
Elevator Pitch
Give us a one liner
Describe your idea in a 100 words
What might a premium service offer What does the user leave the service
the user? with?
How might the user feedback to the What touchpoints relate to leaving the
service provider?
service positively? Can these processes be done in a way that doesn’t
involve money?
If your idea was a character, who would it be? (i.e Dr Who)
Need Who is it for?
What issue does it solve? I.e The problem my idea solves is loneliness
My idea makes travelling easier Who will use this? Is it for one type of person or for
(It could be one specific need or many things) a variety of people? Either attach the personas from
your table, or make up some of your own on the cards
provided
We give ALISS Ask the ALISS Engine Tags If not, where/whom will you get the money from
How does it enhance existing services? What information does it require to make it work? (eg - we need a list of people who Throughout the workshop keep adding words that and what sort of transactions do you foresee being
Persona create new characters to test your ideas out. provide service X within a Y miles of a given point) describe your idea using the ‘tag’ template involved? (e.g. micro-fee per transaction; regular
Use this template to
i.e It would add a list of local resources to a national website. DD; grant, etc.)
Name
Does the information you require change on a regular basis? Who would change it?
Does your service generate resources? If so what are they? (eg it might bring information
What is the goal of your idea? Age
draw me together in one place, it might gather information that isn’t collected at the moment, it Does anyone collect that information now? If so how would you get it? If not how could Tag
A word that describes your idea (write clearly and big)
What do you want it to achieve? might generate posters) you collect it?
What do I do? in here Who could make use of the resources that you provide? How could the ALISS Engine help you provide information to others?
How would the Engine help people to access them? How could the ALISS engine help ,what kind of services are needed to support your idea?
Do we need new ones?
Personality: 5 words that describe me
our idea is called:
Our Vision
What would the newspapers say about your idea in 15 years? My story: Background/family/information about my life Tag
A word that describes your idea (write clearly and big)
What other ways could money be raised for this
project (eg Age Unlimited, other social innovation
funds, voluntary sector funding)?
The insert title distributed in the United Kingdom Thursday 11th February, 2025
Insert title here The project “ insert something this
person is likely to say
our idea is called:
has cut Tag
_____________ ” A word that describes your idea (write clearly and big)
Fifteen years ago today, a small group of people
created ___________________________________
_________________at a supporting pipes workshop
by _______ % Persona create new characters to test your ideas out.
Use this template to
to change the way people live with long term Name
How would you market your service?
conditions. In the 15 years it has been running it
has managed to achieve;
When you are clear about what your idea
1.
Age
draw me will create, use the ‘We give ALISS’ cards
How could the ALISS engine support it?
Use the prompt cards to ask the ALISS
our idea is called:
to feed it into the engine
2.
What do I do? in here engine for things you need
Tag
We give ALISS
3. A word that describes your idea (write clearly and big)
Ask the ALISS Engine
draw here
In an interview last week, the Prime Minister shared
his thoughts on the project
Our team name is...
Our team name is...
“ Personality: 5 words that describe me
We need the ALISS engine to give us
We need the ALISS engine to give us
My story: Background/family/information about my life
”
our idea is called:
We prefer to communicate by
i.e web, conversation, phone call, mobile application, post We prefer to communicate by
i.e web, conversation, phone call, mobile application, post
Tag
Science and as much as scientific progress is highly dependent
on financial support and, in modern times, on
For example
A word that describes your idea (write clearly and big)
society in 2025 general societal support, it is appropriate to discuss
the interaction of science and society. Using the
United States as an example, some of the topics
i.e text data, spreadsheet, images, handwriting, people, posters, conversation, url, rss For example
i.e text data, spreadsheet, images, handwriting, people, posters, conversation, url, rss
“ insert something this
The role of science and technology in future design to be discussed are the views of public officials
will be discussed from the perspective of someone who influence the distribution of research funds,
who has lived all his life in the United States and the response of funding agencies and the views of Remember to think about
scientists. Finally, we shall look at the co-evolution Remember to think about
person is likely to say
whose scientific experience has spanned the years i.e geographically tagged, time it was posted, specific to certain area, time it happens
since the late 1930s. It is likely that the reader will of science and society and attempt to draw some i.e geographically tagged, time it was posted, specific to certain area, time it happens
”
find in my discussion characteristics that apply to conclusions concerning their related future and the our idea is called:
many developed countries and developing ones. In implications for the future of technology.