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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 5-20 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | UX researchTrackingBehavior | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |
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