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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking Leverage Points | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Canvas | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing | ![]() Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day | 1-2 h | 45-90 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue |



