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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
Purposedifferent
When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.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.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
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufendHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen45-90 minWochen bis Monate je Goal
Participantsdifferent
2-64-123-83-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
StrategyMetricsExecution
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
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