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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Knowledge Modeling Concept 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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Concept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking |
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