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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  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. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |
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