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| Criterion | ![]() UX Design Service Blueprinting | ![]() Operations Bottleneck Analysis | ![]() Operations Fishbone Diagram |
|---|---|---|---|
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 flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 0.5-2 Tage | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 6-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint | FlowMeasurementConstraints | Root causeQualityOperations |
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