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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |