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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | InnovationPrototypeResearch | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |