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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration for ABC Analysis
Operations
ABC Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Purposedifferent
When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.With many similar objects of differing economic significance, the method prioritizes effort by effect. It separates what needs regular steering from what rarely needs attention.When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30-60 min0.5-2 Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-101-56-122-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesABC Classification, Focus Rules, Control ListService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapA3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause Analysis
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
PrioritizationOperationsPortfolio
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations
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