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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Concept Mapping |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly. | 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 strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Mehrere Wochen | 1-4 h | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 4-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Concept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ComplexitySensemakingDecision |