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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
6-122-53-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapA3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause AnalysisFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud