Business Maps

Hundreds of thousands of businesses are created daily, which is good, because we'd want as many people as possible to own their own business, the problem is that 90% of them will fail, 70% of them before even their first birthday.

The main reasons those businesses fail are:

Operational Inefficiency: This is particularly painful in scale-up stage businesses. It comes from ambiguity within the business, it could be a disconnect in the communication between the different departments, or a lack of understanding of the problem the business is solving.
Money issues: This is particularly painful in the early stages, businesses might run out of capital before it has become profitable. The issue is exacperated by the cost of hiring, building digital solutions, and the difficulty of conceptualizing risk to manage it.
Team issues: This is due to inefficient team topologies, where either the team roles, placements, scope of their work, or workflows are not clearly defined.
Market Adaptability: Business don't operate in a vaccuum, they operate within a market, a lack of understanding of the market in which they operate, the people dynamics involved, or the evolving tools available is detrimental.

The risks associated with starting a business can be dramatically reduced with proper planning and modeling of the business. You'll need to understand what you're doing, you'll need to understand the concepts related to the business, how those concepts are connected, and how value is moving through the business. Most importantly, you'll need a business model, some way to conceptualize the business, end-to-end, in order to experiment with it, see what works and what doesn't.

Business studies usually fall under the psuedo sciences, like economics, but it doesn't have to be that way, business is just another complex system, and like any complex system it can be engineered. There are a lot of parallels to common business problems within engineering, where those problems have solid solutions that can be ported back into business management.

This project is one attemp at porting those engineering concepts into the business realm, while also packaging them in a way that are digestible for people without an engineering background.