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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation 3-Circle Venn Diagram |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | 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 | 15-45 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Venn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ComparisonFacilitationAlignment | InnovationPrototypeResearch |