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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  UX Design Service Blueprinting |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Operations ALPEN Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit. | 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. | With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 0.5-2 Tage | 45-90 min | 10-20 min daily |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 6-12 | 3-8 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations |