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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Scenario Planning |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 0.5-2 Tage | 30-60 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution |