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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Product Discovery Learning Card |  Product Discovery Experiment 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 Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 25-40 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 5-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Learning Card with evidence and next action | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |