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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Engineering Fault Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering |