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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan |
Tags1 shared | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight |
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