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| Criterion |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation Morphological Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 10-20 min | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-100+ | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | IdeationInnovationCreativity |