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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 2-4 h | 2-8 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan |
Tagsno overlap | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | Root causeQualityOperations | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations |