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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |