Week 1 — Artefact intake
Invoices, org charts, support tags, and delivery calendars. We refuse to start on a blank canvas.
Flagship · six weeks
Operating Model Canvas Intensive
A working reconstruction of how your firm creates, delivers, and captures value — drawn from the floor, not from a template downloaded after a keynote.
What you will be able to do
- Place customer promises next to the teams who actually keep them, including subcontracted work.
- Show which costs step up with volume and which stay stubbornly fixed.
- Name one operating bottleneck the leadership team will still recognise a month later.
- Produce a one-page canvas plus a two-page decision log suitable for a Taipei board pack.
Modules
Week 2 — Promise map
What sales has already told the market, and what operations can keep this quarter.
Week 3 — Cost movement
Variable, semi-variable, and the costs everyone pretends are overhead.
Week 4 — Work design
Handoffs, queues, and the unofficial heroes who hold the model together.
Week 5 — Constraint choice
Pick one bottleneck. Write the trade-off. Kill two decorative initiatives.
Week 6 — Canvas defence
Present to a guest critic from finance or operations. Revise overnight. File the decision log.
Instructor
Wei-chen Lin
Studio principal. Fifteen years advising manufacturing-adjacent and B2B software firms on operating design. Teaches in English; critiques in whichever language the numbers were built in. Does not run transformation slide factories.
Informational fee
NT$48,000 per seat for the six-week intensive, including Tuesday clinic hour. Materials are digital. Travel to the Datong desk is not included. This site does not process payment.
Questions we hear before enrolment
Do I need a finished business model canvas already?
No. Bring messy files. A polished canvas with no supporting artefacts usually takes longer to unwind.
Is this suitable for early-stage founders without revenue?
Poorly. The intensive assumes you have invoices or signed delivery work. Pre-revenue teams are better served by the Go-to-Market Logic Lab, which still will not invent a market for you.
What is a real limitation of this studio?
We will not redesign your equity structure, tax position, or labour contracts. If the operating problem is actually a shareholder dispute, the canvas will look tidy and the company will still stall. We say so in week one if we see it.
Language of instruction?
English in session. You may submit artefacts in Chinese. Wei-chen will not translate an entire ERP export on the spot.
From recent seats
Week 4 made the unofficial expediter on our shop floor visible. We had been calling that person “culture.” The canvas now shows a queue.
I still disagree with dropping the marketplace channel in week 5. The argument was documented well enough that I could take the dissent to our GM without looking unprepared.