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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  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. | 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 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 20–45 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Small cross-functional group | 3-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |