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| Criterion |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Growth Flywheel |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | 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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | 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 | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | GrowthRetentionConversion | InnovationPrototypeResearch |