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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |