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Criterion
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Purposedifferent
Intervention Mapping translates a need for change into a planned, evaluable program. The method connects target group, determinants, actions, and measurement into a traceable chain.Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage1-3 hMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-123-122-6 researchers plus sample
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Logic Model, Change Objectives, Intervention Components, Evaluation PlanSystem Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
ChangeSystems thinkingCapability
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points