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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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
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.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 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend0.5-2 Tage60–90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder6-122-84-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
JourneyServiceService design
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