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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-5 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |