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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 an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
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.With unclear responsibilities across several roles or areas, the method creates unambiguous accountability logic. It reduces friction because decision, execution, contribution, and information become separately visible.When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage45-90 min1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-122-83-103-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapRACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
DecisionRolesGovernance
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