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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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.When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-60 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-122-62-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapCounter Metric List, Guardrail DefinitionsStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S