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POLISM Canvas - Free Template

A structured canvas for mapping how your organisation functions across seven areas - from value proposition through to management systems. Use it to visualise your current operating model or design a future one.

Based on our full guide to POLISM Canvas.

Free POLISM Canvas template - downloadable PDF

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What's in this POLISM Canvas template

The POLISM Canvas on one page - the process value chain running into your value proposition and on to the people it serves, with organisation, locations, information, suppliers and management systems supporting it.

A one-page summary: what each of the seven parts covers, the steps for mapping your operating model from the value proposition back, and the traps to watch for, like drawing the value chain as departments rather than activities.

It's a PDF, so you can print it for a workshop wall, work through it on screen, or use it to map today's model and then tomorrow's.

Tips for using it

Start with your value proposition and work outward. The canvas works for both current-state mapping and future-state design - do the current state first so you can see where the gaps are.