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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research Card Sorting |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 content only makes sense internally and users can't find the structure again, card sorting exposes their mental order. Terms, groups, and naming are then aligned with the target group's expectations. | 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 | Low | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Mehrere Wochen | 20-45 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Based on research question | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Content groups, Label set, IA hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Information architectureNavigationStructure | InnovationPrototypeResearch |