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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes | ![]() UX Design Customer Journey Canvas | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | Half day | 1-3 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |



