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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Facilitation 3-Circle Venn Diagram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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 the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Venn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ComparisonFacilitationAlignment |