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| Criterion |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | KPI Tree, Owner List | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |