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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 2-4 h | 45-60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |