Event Details

A great foundation for commercial awareness is understanding how organisations fit together holistically to create value.

Understanding Organisations!

A great foundation for commercial awareness is understanding how organisations fit together holistically to create value. Whatever your field, in the future, mastering the concept of business model thinking now, is a commercial awareness skill to take you and your fit and effectiveness in organisations of all shapes and sizes forward. Whether it’s a student society or a future employer.

In this session you’ll explore how to unpick and understand any organisation through the lens of a visual tool called the Business Model Canvas.  You'll learn live with peers, and a local business owner manager hands on to unpack their businesses parts and narrative. Seeing ‘inside’ an actual business, you‘ll get chance to ask lots of questions about the business and how it all works. You’ll be able to apply what you learn to organisations in other sectors. 

This experience will help you:

• develop your commercial awareness
• give you tools and resources to build forward 
• understanding potential employers or their competitors
• visualise how organisations work, struggle, survive and grow

A short taught section at the start of each workshop will explore topics including:

• Who are my Customers?
• What are their needs?
• Problem research & Problem solution fit
• Making ideas tangible
• Prototyping to learn
• Solution research and Product market fit

Joining Instructions

Our online sessions take place via video calls on Microsoft Teams. This can be accessed via your Internet Browser or by downloading the Microsoft Teams application. Please sign-up for this event by completing the form below:

Complete the sign-up form here

Full joining instructions will be sent via email on when your place is confirmed.Whilst you wait, we encourage you to join the Work in Progress Community Group to explore other sessions, our drop-in sessions and meet the other members of the community. You can join this group using the link below. If you do not have a Lancaster University account or would like to use an alternative email address, please let us know via email at workinprogress@lancaster.ac.uk and we'll add you to the group. Join the Work in Progress Members Community

Additional Information

Places on our sessions are limited and in demand – if you book please put a note and a reminder in your diary.

Cancellation: If you need to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances, please aim to give 24 hours' notice so someone else can benefit from the value and experience of this session for their personal and professional development.

Online Photography: Please note that this session may be captured for the purpose of future marketing, student experience storytelling and PR. If you do not wish to have your photograph taken or appear in any marketing materials please let someone know at the beginning of the session or email us in advance.

Contact: Please email workinprogress@lancaster.ac.uk with any questions regarding this event.

The U Start project is part-funded by the European Regional Development FundWebsite: www.lancaster.ac.uk/Work-in-Progress