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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |