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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Agile ROAM Board |
|---|---|---|---|
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-15 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | ROAM Board, Owner List |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment |
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