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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Vision Board with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Product Vision Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper matrix with seven SCAMPER rows, operator prompts and variations for a course portal.
Innovation
SCAMPER
Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
Innovation
Morphological Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team.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.For an existing solution under pressure to change, the method deliberately opens space for systematic variants. It directs attention to rebuilding, combining, and repurposing rather than only new basic ideas. This produces concrete evolution paths for products, offerings, or workflows.For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h1-2 h30-60 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-84-122-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation QuestionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsSCAMPER Idea List, Concept Shortlist, Variation NotesMorphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityReframingInnovation
IdeationInnovationCreativity
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