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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Porter Five Forces |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Porter Five Forces analyzes the forces that shape competitive pressure and profitability in a market. The view of market structure goes beyond individual competitors and reveals systemic pressure points. | 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. | 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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyCompetitionMarket | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |