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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | KnowledgeMappingRisk | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |