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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for TRIZ
Innovation
TRIZ
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
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.For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles.When a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 hMehrere Wochen1-4 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
5-302-6 researchers plus sample2-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesContradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution ConceptsContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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