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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Business Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Strategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC Actions |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | StrategyPositioningInnovationValue |
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