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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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 solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min je Interview |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-10 Interviews |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ValidationInterviewsPrototype |