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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research Surveys |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | 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 topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | Mehrere Wochen | 3-14 Tage | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 50+ | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QuantitativeResearchValidation | InnovationPrototypeResearch |