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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation TRIZ |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Contradiction Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | 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 a system should improve while another measure suffers as a result, the method makes the underlying conflict precisely formulable. It separates the desired effect from its side effect. This makes solutions possible that address the contradiction deliberately instead of half-heartedly. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-4 h | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Contradiction Statement, Abstraction Notes, Solution Principles, Concept Ideas |
Tags1 shared | InnovationPrototypeResearch | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ContradictionsInnovationProblem solving |