1 The infrastructure area

As introduced in Weeks 4 and 5, a sustainable business model canvas comprises five areas (infrastructure, offer, customers, financial viability and sustainability) and 11 blocks: key resources, key activities, key partners, value propositions, customer relationships, customer segments, channels, cost structure, revenue streams, eco-social costs and eco-social benefits.

In the sections that follow you will look at the three blocks that make up the infrastructure area of the sustainable business model canvas: key resources, key activities and key partners. They are all related to each other, so when one block is discussed it is important to also think about its internal relations with the other blocks.