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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of a Business Model Canvas with nine connected compartments, a few notes and symbols for customers, delivery and economic relationships.
Business Strategy
Business Model Canvas
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Purposedifferent
For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
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Timedifferent
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 min1-2 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-101-62-82-8
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogBusiness Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business HypothesesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Business modelStrategyValueInnovation
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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