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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 1-5 Tage | 2-4 h | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | Nutzertraffic |
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 | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |