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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop | ![]() Decision Making Argument Mapping | ![]() 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. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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 | 60-180 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-20 | 1-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |



