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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation |