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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |