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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Systems Thinking Theory of Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | Theory of Change translates a desired impact into a traceable chain of change. It makes assumptions, intermediate goals, and measurement points visible before a program is rolled out at scale. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Theory of Change Map, Assumptions, Outcome Measures |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | ImpactOutcomesSystems thinkingStrategy |