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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Crazy 8s |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 8-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Sketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |