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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration for Contradiction Analysis.
Innovation
Contradiction Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.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.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 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
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Timedifferent
60-90 min4-5 TageMehrere Wochen60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
4-105-82-6 researchers plus sample2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentPrototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
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FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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