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| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 4-12 | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | StrategyMetricsExecution | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |