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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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. | 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 | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |