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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Purposedifferent
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 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min5-15 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-61-52-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepA3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause Analysis
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
StartupValidationCompetition
LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations
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Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk