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| Criterion |  Innovation Morphological Analysis |  Innovation Brainstorming |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | Mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Morphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | IdeationInnovationCreativity | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |