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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy Impact 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. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 h | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | RationaleKnowledgeDecision | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |