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| Criterion | ![]() Innovation Lean Startup | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-4 | 5-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority |
Tagsno overlap | LeanStartupValidationMVP | ValidationDemandMVP | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion |
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