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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-4 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |