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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Operations 8D Problem Solving |  Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. |
Complexitysame | High | High | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-6 Wochen | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | 8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QualityProblem solvingRoot cause | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality |
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