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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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.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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen30 min Setup, dann laufendMehrere Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-101-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-6 researchers plus sample3-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsRAID Log, Status Report SourceDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
InnovationPrototypeResearch
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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