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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Scenario Planning |  Product Strategy Product Vision Board |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path. | When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 0.5-2 Tage | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options | Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tags1 shared | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning | VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |