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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Innovation Brainwriting |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | 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 many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 15-30 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |