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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | 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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-10 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |