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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 1-2 h Setup | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 2-20 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment |