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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Decision Making Force Field Analysis | ![]() Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud | ![]() Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 3-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | ChangeDecisionStrategy | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |



