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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Decision Making OODA Loop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 15-60 min je Zyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Situation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action Updates |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | DecisionChangeLearningStrategy |