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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons | ![]() Growth A/B Testing | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |



