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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | 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. | When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | InnovationPrototypeResearch |