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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-4 Wochen | 20-35 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 6-30 Experten | 1-5 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |