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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Purposedifferent
GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h0.5-2 Tage1-2 h Setup, laufendHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-86-1214-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk NotesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisPlanning
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
StrategyMetricsExecution
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