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Business Strategy
VMGS
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently.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.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-4 hWochen bis Monate je Goal45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesGoals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reportsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
VisionGoalsStrategy
RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree