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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations Getting Things Done |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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 Tage Setup, laufend | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | InnovationPrototypeResearch |