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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |