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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of a Business Model Canvas with nine connected compartments, a few notes and symbols for customers, delivery and economic relationships.
Business Strategy
Business Model Canvas
Purposedifferent
The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work.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.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
11-62-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogBusiness Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Business modelStrategyValueInnovation
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Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
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Business Model Stress Test
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
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