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| Criterion |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |