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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |