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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 h | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | KnowledgeMappingRisk | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |
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