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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Decision Making DACI |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 3-10 | 2-10 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |