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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The VRIO Framework rates resources and capabilities on whether they are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organized. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a VRIO table and strategic actions. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |