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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Kanban | ![]() Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis | ![]() Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | Half day | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |
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