Faith-Inspired Strategy

– Faith-Consciousizing a popular method of business model generation

BMC here refers to the Business Model Canvas. On a single canvas (page), you get to view nine building blocks of a business. Many strategists, consultants and entrepreneurs use it as a practical, visual tool to design and iterate their business model.

See it mentioned (with a twist) in this short video below, in a recent meetup of Faith-Conscious Professionals:

(If you can’t view the video above, click here.)

In that masterclass on Islamic Entrepreneurship, George Bohlender from Dragonfire Corporate Solutions Sdn Bhd included a spiritual perspective of BMC!

In this newsletter edition, I share (with George’s permission) the “Islamic BMC” template found in his course material and I attempt to interpret and discuss what it means to see the BMC through a faith-conscious lens.

I hope to participate in the entire Islamic Entrepreneurship masterclass in future. For now I revisit the BMC, requesting guidance from George, my other BMC mentors and readers here. I stand corrected, and welcome your comments so that my own BMC can be updated and refined, insha Allah.

NINE BLOCKS OF BMC EXTENDED TO THIRTEEN

The original Strategyzer BMC looks like this:

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– Why Muslim leaders must unlearn defaults and generate autonomous frameworks of strategy

UNDER ATTACK, OBVIOUS AND NOT SO

The attack on humanity of late has me lost for extremely negative adjectives. We awaken and we don’t want to allow the way of the perpetrators to go on. We find in our ways, big or small to counter these madness with what should be absolute right.

For both the blatant transgressions that are reported and streamed on our daily screens, and the “silent killers” that over the decades we allowed ourselves to be programmed with, we want to find and implement better ways.

In Edition #1, I lamented on the silent killer of coloniality: the unseen continuation of colonial mindsets in leadership and strategy. Over our professional lifetime, colionality continues in the way we define “success,” “progress,” “business” and “strategy” today. Like a fish in water, we swim along not really aware we are in water.

Read More “Reforming Strategy: Towards Faith-Conscious Knowledge and Practice”