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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-6 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |