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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping |  Innovation Design Thinking |  UX Design Storyboarding |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable. | 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. | When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built. | 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 | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-10 | 1-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable Assumptions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeMappingRisk | InnovationPrototypeResearch | VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |