Management models

With the brainstorm, you can easily fill in well-known models. think of the business model canvas, a SWOT, the lean canvas, or a stakeholder analysis.

Model selection

Open a brainstorm.
Select the model.
Click ‘Save’ to confirm your choice.

Select the management model

You can also switch models if you already have ideas in the brainstorm. Existing ideas are then placed in a separate list so you can drag them to the correct location in the selected model.

Adding ideas

Click an idea to edit it.
Labels: add labels to mark ideas. You can also filter the ideas overview using these labels.
Description: here you can provide an explanation of the idea.

Details of an idea

Dragging ideas

You can easily drag ideas to another part of the model.

Commenting on ideas

Click an idea to open it.
Add a comment.

Overview of the Business Model Canvas

Zooming in and out

Want more or less information on your screen? In the wide models, such as the Business model canvas, the Lean Canvas, the Product life cycle and the Strategy Sketch, you zoom in and out:

Use the Zoom slider in the toolbar.
Or hold Ctrl (Mac: ⌘) and scroll with your mouse. On a touchpad or tablet, you zoom by pinching.

Zoom to get an overview of the brainstorm

Drag an empty spot in the model to move the view. Drag an idea to move the idea. OGSM.online remembers for each brainstorm how far you zoomed in and where you were.

The other models, such as SWOT and DESTEP, do not need zooming: you simply scroll through the page.

Printing

Click the print button in the top right corner of the screen to print the results.