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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |