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Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder 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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
Wochen bis Monate je Goal1-4 Wochen60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-106-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping