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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Innovation TRIZ |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | 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. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-4 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue |