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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | SensemakingDecisionRationale | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |