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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 | Medium | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-4 Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |