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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |  Business Strategy GAP Analysis |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen | 1-3 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | StrategyAnalysisPlanning | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |