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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
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45-90 min0.5-2 Tage30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-126-122-8
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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FacilitationOptionsDecision
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
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 of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam