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| Criterion |  Innovation How Might We |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With a stuck problem carrying many implicit assumptions, the method translates observations into open, workable questions. It sharpens the problem frame without pre-thinking the solution, turning frustration or fuzziness into a search space with clear direction. | 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. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30–45 min | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | HMW Questions, Challenge Framing, Idea Prompts | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | FramingOpportunityIdeationQuestions | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |