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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | FailureResilienceRisk | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |