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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  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. | SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning. | 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. |
Complexitysame | High | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |
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