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| Criterion |  Operations Time Blocking |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min Planung, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningTime managementFocus | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |