Blog #9
- Develop a Business Model for your venture using the Osterwalder Business Model Canvas.
Value Propositions
For mothers in Sierra Leone, our Ukweli Test Strip is a simple, affordable testing strip for UTIs and preeclampsia that could save their lives and increase their quality of life by identifying potential health issues.
Customer Relationships
Co-Creation
User Communities
Channels
Community Health Workers
Customer Segments
Women in Sierra Leone
Community Health Workers
Revenue Streams
Funding from Organizations
Selling of the actual test strips to CHWs
Key Resources
Test Strips (OEM)
CHWs
Intellectual→ Connections on the ground Hassan and his connections, data collection,
Human→ Hassan, Allieu, Bockarie
Financial→ Funding from world hope and other organizations
Cost Structure
Sell strips to UHWs/NICs to distribute to the catchment population–>bottle of strips cost 50,000 SL
Key Activities
*big idea
For the Lehigh team, we need to continuously be
- Communicating and directing on-site UHWs (Ukweli-certified Health Workers)
- Collecting, storing, managing, and communicating data from fieldwork to necessary stakeholders
- WhatsApp communication with CHWs in order to maintain relationships
Key Partners
World Hope
CHWs
Hassan, Allieu, Bockarie
- List ten lessons from the Business and Operations model of the Aravind Eye Hospital.
- Franchise system for eye care, same delivery and quality
- Important to identify those who need help in the first place
- Developing a system which integrates the communities
- Hub-and-Spoke model: base hospitals, vision centers, managed hospitals
- Use technology to increase accessibility
- Fixed pricing which takes into account
- Focus on non-customer, grows market
- Gave a lot away for free, had those who could pay cover the costs of the free treatments
- Created competition by training other hospitals and cheaper consumables, result is beneficial to patients
- Cost is not directly related to quality or efficiency of care
- OWN THE PROBLEM – create compassion, encourage people to act