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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | 1-2 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tags1 shared | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |