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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Process Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Operations
Process Mapping
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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.With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-3 h5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
1-63-101-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogProcess Map, Handoff List, Improvement BacklogVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
ProcessOperationsImprovement
StartupValidationCompetition
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Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review