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| Criterion |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-5 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |
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