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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Kano Model | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When features need to be distinguished by their effect on satisfaction, it makes expectations and surprises comparable. It separates basic needs, performance contribution, and delight. | 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. | 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 | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 Tage | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 10-50 | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Kano Matrix, Feature Classes, Priority Themes | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | SatisfactionPrioritizationCustomer | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch |



