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Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.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.
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Timedifferent
60-90 minMehrere Wochen60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
4-102-6 researchers plus sample2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesContradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving
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Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration for Impact Filter
Decision Making
Impact Filter