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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |