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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |