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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 1-5 Tage | 2-4 h | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |