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| Criterion | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |



