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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |