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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 for Theory of Constraints.
Operations
Theory of Constraints
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 system that does not get faster despite effort, the method directs attention to the bottleneck. It concentrates improvement on the point that actually limits throughput.
Complexitysame
HighHigh
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage2-4 h Analyse, laufend
Participantsdifferent
6-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapConstraint Map, Improvement Plan, Flow Metrics
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Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
OperationsConstraintsFlowImprovement
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
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