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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis | ![]() Business Strategy VRIO Framework |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-3 h | Half day | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Value Chain Map, Lever List | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability |
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