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Criterion
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
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.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Wochen bis Monate je Goal60-120 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-103-82-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
GrowthRetentionConversion
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Funnel Analysis workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
Funnel Analysis