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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  UX Research Surveys |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 3-14 Tage | 5-15 min | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 50+ | 3-20 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | QuantitativeResearchValidation | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |