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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration of a Strategy Canvas with several value curves
Business Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
Purposedifferent
When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.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.
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Timedifferent
4-5 TageHalf day2-4 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleLeverage Map, Action StrategyFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsStrategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions
Tagsno overlap
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
StrategyPositioningInnovationValue
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