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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Half day | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |