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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Business Strategy GAP Analysis |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | StrategyAnalysisPlanning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |