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Criterion
Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment 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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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
MediumLowHighLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h20-35 min1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-81-51-61-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Five Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic OptionsTest Card with a pre-set thresholdExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
StrategyCompetitionMarket
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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