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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Assumption 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. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 20-35 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 1-6 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |