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Criterion
Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
GAP Analysis
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Purposedifferent
GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h60-120 min20-35 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
2-83-81-5Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk NotesFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogTest Card with a pre-set thresholdClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
StrategyAnalysisPlanning
GrowthRetentionConversion
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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