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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team API | ![]() Business Strategy McKinsey 7S | ![]() UX Research Customer Journey Mapping | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 2-4 h | 2-4 h | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | 3-12 | 4-10 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | JourneyServiceService design | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |



