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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |