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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |  Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis |  Product Discovery Assumption 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. | 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. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Half day | Half day | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |