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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis | ![]() Business Strategy VRIO Framework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | The VRIO Framework rates resources and capabilities on whether they are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organized. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a VRIO table and strategic actions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | Half day | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Value Chain Map, Lever List | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions |
Tagsno overlap | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability |



