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| Criterion |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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 a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | FacilitationOptionsDecision | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |