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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | 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. | When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes. | 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 | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 60-120 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-10 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |