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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations MORT Analysis |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident | QuantitativeResearchValidation |