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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 3-6 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model |
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