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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Contradiction Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 60-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |