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Criterion
Paper illustration of Strategy Map with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Map
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results.When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h workshop plus reviewHalf day initial, dann laufend60-120 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-10Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-84-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect HypothesesTeam API DocumentCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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