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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |