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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Discovery Assumption 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. | 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. | The VRIO Framework rates resources and capabilities on whether they are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organized. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a VRIO table and strategic actions. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 20–45 min | 90-180 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Small cross-functional group | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |