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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy VRIO Framework | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



