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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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 | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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