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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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 | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-6 h | 45-90 min | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |