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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Argument 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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 6-30 Experten | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | SensemakingDecisionRationale |
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